One World, One Health

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One World, One Health

One World, One Health is brought to you by the One Health Trust. In this podcast, we bring you the latest ideas to improve the health of our planet and its people. Our world faces many urgent challenges from pandemics and decreasing biodiversity to pollution and melting polar ice caps, among others. This podcast highlights solutions to these problems from the scientists and experts working to make a difference.

  1. Fighting Killer Bugs in Babies

    2 DAYS AGO

    Fighting Killer Bugs in Babies

    Send us a textChildren under five years old are fragile. They’re more vulnerable than adults to malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, and other infections. A growing number of these infections that sicken and kill children are resistant to the drugs developed to treat them – a phenomenon known as antimicrobial resistance, or AMR.AMR is a big killer. Nearly five million deaths are caused in part by drug-resistant infections each year. While the percentage of children killed by these infections has fal...

    17 min
  2. Mpox – An evolving One Health problem

    OCT 29

    Mpox – An evolving One Health problem

    Send us a textSmallpox may be gone but it’s got a cousin called mpox, and that virus is now spreading fast across parts of Africa.As of October 2024, this mpox outbreak had infected more than 40,000 people, mostly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 1,000 people have died from the infection. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring countries to be a Publi...

    15 min
  3. Clearing forests makes room for farms – and disease outbreaks

    OCT 15

    Clearing forests makes room for farms – and disease outbreaks

    Send us a textFarmers need land to grow their crops, and in many parts of the world, that means clearing forests. That’s especially true in the Amazon region in South America. Crops just won’t grow under the thick forest canopy, so a new banana plantation means clearing trees. This has all sorts of effects on the ecosystem and researchers are seeing a new one.A virus called Oropouche was identified back in the 1950s, but it was pretty rare. Like so many viruses, it causes headaches, body ache...

    18 min
  4. A Life Cut Short When Antibiotics Stopped Working

    SEP 24

    A Life Cut Short When Antibiotics Stopped Working

    Send us a textMost people don’t even think twice when they get an infection. Much of the time, the best treatment is simple: fluids and rest. Bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics – a quick course of pills, maybe a week or 10 days, and you’re done.But the rise of drug-resistant pathogens is changing that. These germs (viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi) have developed the ability to survive even the strongest of antimicrobial drugs. This phenomenon is known as antimicrobia...

    15 min
  5. “My life is never going to be normal again.” – The toll of antibiotic resistance

    SEP 10

    “My life is never going to be normal again.” – The toll of antibiotic resistance

    Send us a textRosemary Bartel had no idea her life was going to take a turn when she went to a hospital near her home in Chilton, Wisconsin in the United States for standard knee replacement surgery – her second such operation. She was ready to work hard to recover and return to her busy job at her Roman Catholic diocese. But Rosie developed an all-too-common infection known as MRSA—methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It’s one of the best-known examples of antimicrobial-resistant mic...

    14 min
  6. When Superbugs Get Personal – From professional preoccupation to a family's nightmare

    AUG 27

    When Superbugs Get Personal – From professional preoccupation to a family's nightmare

    Send us a textDr. Nour Shamas knows about antimicrobial resistance. As a clinical pharmacist, she was trained in how to dispense drugs to treat infections, and her graduate studies in global health policy made her aware of the threat of antimicrobial resistance, or AMR. Antimicrobial resistance develops when bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites evolve the ability to shake off the effects of drugs developed to fight them. It’s one of the biggest threats to humanity – such a serious thre...

    16 min
  7. Innovation to Save Antibiotics – Prize-Winning Diagnostics for UTIs

    AUG 13

    Innovation to Save Antibiotics – Prize-Winning Diagnostics for UTIs

    Send us a textUrinary tract infections (UTIs) are common, uncomfortable, and embarrassing. They can also be deadly. These infections of the kidneys, bladder, or urethra affect about 1 in 10 men in their lifetimes and more than half of women. Untreated UTIs can cause a body-wide infection known as sepsis. An estimated 236,000 people globally die every year from UTIs. Most UTIs are fairly easy to treat with antibiotics. However, a quarter to a third of urinary tract infections (UTIs) are ...

    12 min
  8. Hazardous Air in the Neighborhood– Local Pollution and Asthma

    JUL 2

    Hazardous Air in the Neighborhood– Local Pollution and Asthma

    Send us a textNo one wants to be exposed to air pollution. No one wants to raise their kids breathing in polluted air in their own neighborhoods.But in Austin, Texas, people of color are disproportionately forced to do both.Dr. Sarah Chambliss, a research associate in the Department of Population Health at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, led a team that ran a study of who is being affected by air pollution in Austin, neighborhood by neighborhood.They found that while...

    16 min
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One World, One Health is brought to you by the One Health Trust. In this podcast, we bring you the latest ideas to improve the health of our planet and its people. Our world faces many urgent challenges from pandemics and decreasing biodiversity to pollution and melting polar ice caps, among others. This podcast highlights solutions to these problems from the scientists and experts working to make a difference.

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    One Health Trust
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    80
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