EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder podcast

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

Eradicating Smallpox: The Heroes that Wiped out a 3,000-Year-Old Virus One of humanity’s greatest triumphs is the eradication of smallpox. This new eight-episode docuseries, “Eradicating Smallpox,” explores this remarkable feat and uncovers striking parallels and contrasts to recent history in the shadows of the covid-19 pandemic. Host Céline Gounder brings decades of experience working on HIV in Brazil and South Africa, Ebola during the outbreak in New Guinea, and covid-19 in New York City at the height of the pandemic. She travels to India and Bangladesh to bring never-before-heard stories from the front lines of the battle to wipe smallpox off the face of the Earth. “Epidemic” launched in early 2020 and quickly became a key source of reporting on the rapidly unfolding coronavirus pandemic. The show premiered at No. 1 in health and fitness and No. 1 in medicine on the Apple Podcast charts.

Eradicating Smallpox: The Heroes that Wiped out a 3,000-Year-Old Virus One of humanity’s greatest triumphs is the eradication of smallpox. This new eight-episode docuseries, “Eradicating Smallpox,” explores this remarkable feat and uncovers striking parallels and contrasts to recent history in the shadows of the covid-19 pandemic. Host Céline Gounder brings decades of experience working on HIV in Brazil and South Africa, Ebola during the outbreak in New Guinea, and covid-19 in New York City at the height of the pandemic. She travels to India and Bangladesh to bring never-before-heard stories from the front lines of the battle to wipe smallpox off the face of the Earth. “Epidemic” launched in early 2020 and quickly became a key source of reporting on the rapidly unfolding coronavirus pandemic. The show premiered at No. 1 in health and fitness and No. 1 in medicine on the Apple Podcast charts.

 

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S2E8 / The Scars of Smallpox

In 1975, smallpox eradication workers in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, rushed to a vil... more

07 Nov 2023

16 MINS

16:13

07 Nov 2023


#94

S2E7 / What Good Is a Vaccine When There Is No Rice?

The 1970s was the deadliest decade in the “entire history of Bangladesh,” said environment... more

24 Oct 2023

18 MINS

18:58

24 Oct 2023


#93

S2E6 / Bodies Remember What Was Done to Them

Global fears of overpopulation in the ’60s and ’70s helped fuel India’s campaign to slow p... more

10 Oct 2023

20 MINS

20:32

10 Oct 2023


#92

S2E5 / The Tata Way

In spring 1974, over a dozen smallpox outbreaks sprang up throughout the Indian state of M... more

26 Sep 2023

24 MINS

24:27

26 Sep 2023


#91

Live Web Event: Thinking Big in Public Health, Inspired by the End of Smallpox

At noon ET on Thursday Sept. 14, Epidemic host Céline Gounder and her guests will come tog... more

12 Sep 2023

00 MINS

00:48

12 Sep 2023


#90

S2E4 / Speedboat Epidemiology

Shahidul Haq Khan, a Bangladeshi health worker, and Tim Miner, an American with the World ... more

29 Aug 2023

21 MINS

21:32

29 Aug 2023


#89

S2E3 / Zero Pox!

In 1973, Bhakti Dastane arrived in Bihar, India, to join the smallpox eradication campaign... more

15 Aug 2023

18 MINS

18:43

15 Aug 2023


#88

S2E2 / Do You Know Dutta?

By the mid-1970s, India’s smallpox eradication campaign had been grinding for over a decad... more

01 Aug 2023

24 MINS

24:03

01 Aug 2023


#87

S2E1 / The Goddess of Smallpox

In the mid-’60s, the national campaign to eradicate smallpox in India was underway, but th... more

18 Jul 2023

22 MINS

22:34

18 Jul 2023


#86

Trailer: Epidemic Season 2 — Eradicating Smallpox

"Eradicating Smallpox” is a journey to South Asia, the site of the last days of variola ma... more

06 Jul 2023

01 MINS

01:57

06 Jul 2023


#85

Trailer: American Diagnosis Season 4 — Rezilience

In the years leading up to the pandemic, Dr. Celine Gounder, the host of the EPIDEMIC and ... more

20 Dec 2021

03 MINS

03:30

20 Dec 2021


#84

S1E80 / Vaccine Joy / Andy Slavitt & Celine Gounder

"It's a really interesting question: how do we get closure in this pandemic?  I think a lo... more

24 Jun 2021

31 MINS

31:59

24 Jun 2021


#83

S1E79 / Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths / Andrea Edlow, Stephanie Gaw, Alice Lu-Culli...

"Pregnant women who have SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to be admitted to the ICU, to need a v... more

17 Jun 2021

23 MINS

23:13

17 Jun 2021


#82

S1E78 / Caregiving as Infrastructure / Stephanie Coontz, Julie Morita, Erika Moritsugu, Sarah Murphy

"The pandemic has given us an opportunity to finally change this and if we don't, the econ... more

10 Jun 2021

24 MINS

24:00

10 Jun 2021


#81

S1E77 / Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide? / Albert Fox Cahn, Lawrence Gosti...

"When you're building a system like a vaccine passport you're potentially excluding millio... more

03 Jun 2021

24 MINS

24:09

03 Jun 2021