Humanosphere Podcast

For this week’s Humanosphere podcast we’ll be speaking to Duncan Harvey, Save the Children’s country director in Kenya, about the impact of drought in the country. We're speaking from Wajir, a border town near the Somali border in the far-east corner of Kenya – which is one of the worst affected.

For this Humanosphere podcast, we explore one community's battle to end the practice of female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision. Our Nairobi-based correspondent Charlie Ensor talks to Samuel Leadismo, founder of an organization known as the Pastoralist Child Foundation, in Samburu County, where female genital mutilation is thought to still be done on nearly all girls shortly before they reach puberty.

For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we're talking with Ichiro Kawachi, a physician and epidemiologist at Harvard University about how growing wealth inequality is making us sicker.

For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we are talking to Mark Bromley, who launched the Council for Global Equality to advance a stronger U.S. foreign policy inclusive of gender identities and sexual orientations. The council—a coalition that brings together international human rights activists, foreign policy experts, LGBT leaders, philanthropists and more—works with officials and policymakers to ensure that LGBT rights is recognized as human [...]

For today's Humanosphere podcast, we are talking with Peru's Minister of Health Patty Garcia and the need for systemic change in how we seek to improve health around the world. Garcia says health care and the global health community have been successful at targeting specific diseases and, in rich countries, advancing treatments. But what we need now, she says, is a comprehensive system that emphasizes prevention and access for all to basic services.

For today's Humanosphere podcast, we seek to provide some background and context for the controversy following President Donald Trump's travel-immigration ban aimed at prohibiting entry from select Muslim-majority countries like Syria, Somalia, Iraq and four others to protect us from the threat of Islamic extremist terrorism.

Millions of women took to the streets to make their voices heard. Now what? In today's podcast we talk about the movement unfolding from the marches, and what's next. We’re also going to unpack what this means for the fight not just for unity, but for equity.

Rather than taking our usual tack of interviewing a guest, our small but devoted and talented news team decided that inauguration day for President Donald Trump was an appropriate occasion to highlight some issues we intend to focus on in the coming year.

For this week’s Humanosphere podcast we’ll be talking about how climate risk insurance can protect the world’s poorest communities against climate risks which can cost them their livelihoods and wider development. We talk with Stewart McCulloch, global insurance director of Vision Fund, the microfinance operation of World Vision, to find out how the world’s poorest farmers can thrive and not just survive after climate shocks.

In this Humanosphere podcast, we talk with Natasha Horsfield - policy and advocacy officer at Health Poverty Action - about how the world’s war on drugs is hindering economic and social development in developing countries, but not always in the ways you might expect.

The International Criminal Court had a bad year. South Africa, Burundi and Gambia all took steps to leave the treaty that makes them part of the court. Some fear that the international body that brings justice to leaders who commit war crimes is under significant threat. On this week's podcast we speak to Kate Cronin-Furman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

After South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan in 2011, the world’s youngest country has found it difficult to build a stable nation and a functional health system, leaving many mothers at risk for dying during pregnancy and children at risk for preventable diseases such as malaria and diarrhea.

The humanitarian fallout from Mosul is expected to be the worst of 2016. This is really saying something, given the scale of the Syrian crisis, and what’s happening in Yemen and South Sudan. As the battle rages on and humanitarian agencies have received, or are waiting to receive refugees, the media’s focus hasn’t been as much on the human side of the story.

For today’s podcast, we’re talking with Carolyn Miles, CEO and president of Save the Children USA, about the challenges children face around the world.

For today's Humanosphere podcast, we talk about food and agriculture with Nathanael Johnson, a writer for the entertaining and insightful environmental news website Grist.org.