Ep 2: COVID-19 Convo with Vinh-Kim Nguyen

Did you know that by social distancing, you can literally save lives? In this second Health Intl podcast episode on the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Vinh-Kim Nguyen, co-director of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute and VP of MSF Switzerland, calls in from Montreal (where he flew to be on the frontlines of the response to the outbreak) to chat with students Esther Pak and Ezekiel Boro about COVID-19 and age, vegetarianism, vitamins, immunity and soap. They also talk epidemiology (and a bit of math) and how real the reported global numbers are, as well as what we can all do to help each other during these trying times. Professor Nguyen is an HIV and Emergency physician and medical anthropologist who has been on the frontlines of the Ebola epidemic as MSF team leader, and since 1994 has worked extensively with community organizations responding to the HIV epidemic in West Africa as a trainer and physician.

Health Intl is a student-led podcast at the Graduate Institute. More from Graduate Institute students: https://www.facebook.com/genevaintl/

More about the Global Health Centre: https://graduateinstitute.ch/globalhealth

Logo by: Stephane Bernhard

Music by: Patryk Skowroński and Patryk Skowroński- Candy

Edited by: Michelle Olguin Flückliger