Center for Strategic & International Studies’ “Take as Directed”: Reflections from Global Health Sage Michael Merson
Sara Allinder, deputy director and senior fellow at the Global Health Policy Center at CSIS, speaks with Michael Merson, Wolfgang Joklik professor of global health and vice president and vice provost for global affairs at Duke University, about “his career in global health, the evolving role of the WHO over time, and the main recommendations that came out of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s committee on global health and the future of the United States” (10/26).

Center for Strategic & International Studies’ “Take as Directed”: The New Barbarianism — A CSIS Original Documentary Film
Steve Morrison, senior vice president and director of the Global Health Policy Center at CSIS, speaks with Justin Kenny, owner of Small Footprint Films, and Paul Franz, Andreas C. Dracopoulos chair in creativity and innovation at CSIS, about a CSIS Global Health Policy Center original documentary that examines the danger that health care and humanitarian workers face in emergency and conflict situations. The film “examines the crisis, its causes, the limited international response, and possible ways forward through over 30 on-camera interviews and original footage obtained from inside Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan” (10/13).