U.N. Dispatch’s “Global Dispatches Podcast”: Peter Piot: How Prepared are We for the Next Big Global Epidemic?
Mark Leon Goldberg, editor of U.N. Dispatch and host of the Global Dispatches Podcast, speaks with Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, “about epidemics and what can be done to avert and contain them. This includes the ongoing Ebola epidemic in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is now the second worst Ebola outbreak in history. And we also discuss what the world has gotten right (and wrong) about both fighting HIV and AIDS. Peter Piot argues that we need to re-define what we mean by ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic…” (11/4).