A Shot in the Arm Podcast

By Ben Plumley

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Welcome to A Shot In The Arm Podcast, where we take a deep dive into the heart of global health. Since our launch in 2019, we've released over 150 episodes that illuminate the intersection of innovation and equity in healthcare. Join me, your host Ben Plumley—a global infectious disease strategist and passionate HIV advocate, along with our expert team of co-hosts, as we engage in compelling, character-driven conversations with a diverse array of guests from around the world. Together, we explore the intricate connections between everyday lives and biomedical research, tackling pressing issues like pandemic preparedness, climate disruption, and the impact of conflict. Tune in as we uncover the stories and insights that shape our collective health narrative, making complex topics both entertaining and accessible. Let's embark on this journey to improve lives, one episode at a time!

Episode Date
Reflecting on Global Health’s Many Eras with WHO's Andy Seale
Oct 14, 2025
Fair Doses: Towards A Future of Vaccine Equity and Innovation with Dr. Seth Berkley
Oct 13, 2025
Episode 07 - Colon, Meet Cancer: Cos You Gotta Have Faith
Sep 24, 2025
Episode 06 – Colon, Meet Cancer: Is it Assez Merdique Yet?
Sep 04, 2025
Prescriptions for an American Public Health Revolution: Countering the Trump Administration’s Disastrous Assaults on our Health
Sep 01, 2025
To End a Plague… Again: A Conversation with Emily Bass
Aug 11, 2025
Episode 05 – Colon, Meet Cancer: Finding Chemo
Aug 08, 2025
State of AIDS: Moment of Crisis or Transformation with UNAIDS’ Winnie Byanyima
Aug 04, 2025
Biomedical Innovation Needs Local Community Participation with Solange Baptiste (ITPC) & Rosemary Mburu (WACI)
Jul 22, 2025
Episode 04 - Colon, Meet Cancer: Ouch!
Jul 22, 2025
Young Advocates from APHA’s Force on the Ground Discuss HIV Prevention at IAS 2025 Conference
Jul 20, 2025
Dr. mike Reid’s 7 Dead Ideas in Global Health and What Comes After
Jul 20, 2025
Faith Communities and Public Health Strategies with Professor Heidi Larson and Dr. Nduku Kilonzo
Jul 20, 2025
Long-Acting Injectibles’ Halo Effect on all HIV Prevention Options with Yvette Raphael and Gilead Sciences, Dr. Alex Kintu
Jul 19, 2025
Reimagining the Global HIV Response: The Kigali Call to Action
Jul 19, 2025
Country Leadership To Transform Global AIDS Responses: Insights from Dr. Nduku Kilonzo and Dr. Thembisile Xulu
Jul 16, 2025
Strengthening the Health Ecosystem with the GLP’s Heidi Larson & GSK’s Susie Barnes
Jul 10, 2025
Episode 3 - Colon, Meet Cancer: Hurry Up and Wait
Jul 04, 2025
Episode 1 - A Preface to Colon, Meet Cancer
Jul 04, 2025
Episode 2 - Colon, Meet Cancer: Should I Be Worried?
Jul 04, 2025
Viral Hepatitis in Asia Pacific: Innovation & Equity In Action With Social Entrepreneur Thomas Cai
Jun 16, 2025
78th World Health Assembly Recap with Yvette Raphael
May 26, 2025
A New Dawn in Global Health: Technology & AI, Security & Solidarity, One Health and Governance, with Dr Mike Reid IGHS, UCSF
May 19, 2025
Communities Deploy AI to Expand Affordable Healthcare with Solange Baptiste ITPC Executive Director
May 15, 2025
Rewarding Undetectability to End HIV with SHINE's Co-Founder & CEO Mackenzie Copley
May 13, 2025
Breaking! Yvette Raphael receives the AAAS Mani L Bhaumik Breakthrough Award
May 08, 2025
Be a Man about it: Redefining Healthy Masculinity with Kenyan Celebrity Anto NeoSoul
May 06, 2025
Resilience and Realignment:  Preventing Global Infectious Disease with AVAC’s Mitchell Warren 
May 01, 2025
Kennedy vs. Braidwood: ACA Free Prevention Services Go Back to the Supreme Court
Apr 19, 2025
AI and the Future of Healthcare: Innovation and Transformation with Prof. Eyal Zimlichman
Apr 01, 2025
Global Health Diplomats - Is Trump's Global Health Strategy Emerging?
Mar 28, 2025
Impact of US Aid Cuts on South Africa's Healthcare
Mar 24, 2025
Global Health Diplomats - The Fight to Keep Global Health Alive
Mar 08, 2025
Are We Living in a Coup Yet?
Feb 09, 2025
Global Health Diplomats | Two weeks of Trump: Our Reaction
Feb 01, 2025
Global Health Diplomats: HIV Isn’t Over - Pressing Needs in Biomedical Innovation Post 2030
Jan 20, 2025
Looking Ahead: Global Health in 2025
Jan 06, 2025
The Future of the Global HIV Response: A Post-World AIDS Day Reflection
Dec 09, 2024
World AIDS Day 2024: Human Rights In Action Against HIV
Dec 01, 2024
2024 UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report: The Rights Way to End the Epidemic?
Nov 29, 2024
Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants: A Conversation with Dr. Joanne Liu
Nov 18, 2024
Integrating Diagnostics for Global Health Equity with Dr. Ben LaBrot
Nov 11, 2024
Post Election Blues & Reds
Nov 07, 2024
Global Health Diplomats: The 2024 US Election
Nov 03, 2024
Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: Africa’s Forgotten Mpox Outbreaks
Oct 14, 2024
Reflecting on the UN Summits with Wame Jallow
Oct 12, 2024
Made in Africa mRNA Vaccines: A talk with Dr. Petro Terblanche of Afrigen Biologics & Vaccine
Oct 06, 2024
WHO at AIDS 2024
Jul 26, 2024
South African Youth taking centre stage at AIDS 2024 (speaking on youth advocacy, activism and community work)
Jul 26, 2024
The G20 and G7 Health & Development Partnership
Jul 25, 2024
AIDS 2024: Preparedness for the People
Jul 24, 2024
Lenacapavir Steals the Show at AIDS 2024
Jul 24, 2024
AIDS 2024: A Prescription for PEPFAR
Jul 23, 2024
AIDS 2024: Pre-conferences, Satellite Symposia & Press Conferences, Oh My!
Jul 22, 2024
An AIDS 2024 Primer with Infectious Disease Specialist, Ben LaBrot
Jul 20, 2024
Frontline AIDS Celebrates 30 years of Community Action
Jul 10, 2024
Putting HIV back into Pandemics Preparedness at the World Health Assembly
Jun 05, 2024
Taking the Temperature on Climate Health at the World Health Assembly with Foundation S
Jun 05, 2024
What we learned at the 77th World Health Assembly with Global Health Council's Elisha Dunn-Georgiou
Jun 04, 2024
Access to Medicines - There’s Good News at the World Health Assembly
May 29, 2024
What’s Really At Stake at the World Health Assembly
May 29, 2024
Syphilis on the rise at the World Health Assembly
May 28, 2024
Back to the Future at the World Health Assembly
May 27, 2024
All About ViiV: An Interview with CEO Deborah Waterhouse at CROI 2024
Mar 13, 2024
Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: International Women's Day - Our Bodies, Our Rights, Our Choices.
Mar 08, 2024
PEPFAR: An HIV Marshall Plan Dissected
Mar 03, 2024
Uganda’s Legalized Persecution of LGBTQ+ / Personal & Public Health Threats
Feb 18, 2024
The Global Trust Crisis with 70,000 People from 70 Countries
Feb 14, 2024
How US Domestic Abortion Decisions Affect the Rights & Health of People Globally
Feb 11, 2024
Focus on PEPFAR
Feb 11, 2024
How Prepared is Japanese Society for the Next Crisis?
Dec 29, 2023
Lagos: Are Men Still the Providers in the 21st Century?
Dec 23, 2023
The Power of Podcasts
Dec 03, 2023
Are Men Still the Providers in 21st century Kenya?
Dec 03, 2023
Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: Who Keeps Governments Accountable?
Dec 01, 2023
Sisters are Creating Content for Themselves
Nov 03, 2023
“Make We Talk” - Hopes and Dreams for Nigeria’s Young Women
Oct 25, 2023
Learnings from NYC’s COVID Experience
Oct 17, 2023
Sharing the Mic: Is the UN Excluding Communities?
Oct 02, 2023
Sharing the Mic: What’s the Future of the AIDS Response Without Affected Communities?
Oct 02, 2023
The New Season of Triple Threats
Sep 24, 2023
Trust, AI & Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics
Sep 18, 2023
Decolonialize your Career in Global Health
Sep 05, 2023
Jirair Ratevosian: A Global Health Leader Runs for Congress
Aug 29, 2023
Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: HIV is a Feminist Issue
Jul 09, 2023
Looking Back to Move Forward: A Conversation with Robin Gorna
Jun 19, 2023
76th World Health Assembly - Pandemic? What Pandemic?
May 22, 2023
76th World Health Assembly - What To Expect
May 21, 2023
Towards Thriving Trans Communities 
Apr 27, 2023
HIV Prevention for Girls & Women - Real Choice, Not Theoretical Options
Apr 24, 2023
The Twende Out in Nairobi - with the Global Listening Project
Apr 10, 2023
The ReSurgence of Global Safe & Affordable Surgical Care
Mar 29, 2023
Live from CROI 2023 - Kim Smith, ViiV Healthcare: CabLA for African Girls and Women
Feb 22, 2023
Live from CROI 2023 - Mosaico and the Future of HIV Vaccines
Feb 21, 2023
Live from CROI 2023 - Monica Gandhi: Connecting the Science of Pandemics
Feb 21, 2023
A Shot In the Arm Podcast: Live From CROI 2023!
Feb 20, 2023
Down South with MTV Staying Alive
Dec 30, 2022
Festive Bonus Episode: But Our Emails!
Dec 30, 2022
2022 World AIDS Day from Tembisa, South Africa
Dec 04, 2022
Sharing the Mic Ep05 - Pandemics Preparation For Whom?
Nov 15, 2022
Current & Future Pandemics - How Resilient are we?
Nov 12, 2022
Diagnostics: The Gateway for Managing Pandemics
Nov 07, 2022
PBS NOVA: Ending HIV in America
Oct 06, 2022
Sharing the Mic Ep04 - Financing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Sep 20, 2022
Doomsday Watch Meets Global Health (with guest Arthur Snell)
Sep 08, 2022
Global Health Security - Part 2
Aug 02, 2022
HIV and COVID-19: A Private Sector Example of Transferable and New Solutions
Jul 31, 2022
Managing Pandemics: Pathways to Better Diagnostics in Infectious Disease
Jul 28, 2022
Sharing the Mic Ep03 - AIDS 2022: New Report on Human Rights Violations
Jul 28, 2022
Reversing Roe vs Wade: Global Health Ramifications
Jun 25, 2022
Where is the Health in Global Security? A conversation with Gayle Smith, CEO of ONE
Jun 03, 2022
Ukraine - The Frontlines of War & a Public Health Crisis
May 11, 2022
Medicine & Humanity: A Profile of Dr. Julie Gerberding
Mar 31, 2022
California Healin’ - with California Health Care Foundation’s Sandra R. Hernández, MD
Mar 14, 2022
Jonna Mazet tackles big, wicked problems armed with lessons from COVID-19
Dec 21, 2021
Hazell Dean’s Hi-NRG Hits Turn Activism into Love
Dec 08, 2021
Martina Clark: UNAIDS’ First Openly HIV+ Staffer Publishes New Memoir
Dec 01, 2021
Peter Staley: Acting Up Against AIDS and COVID-19
Nov 05, 2021
Policy Briefing with Global Health Council's President and CEO Elisha Dunn-Georgiou
Oct 27, 2021
Building COVID-19 Confidence Through Social Media Campaigns (S04 Ep24)
Sep 24, 2021
Discussing the Next Wave of Nonprofit Leadership with Jeanne Bell (S04 Ep23)
Aug 31, 2021
Accelerating Cross-sector Pandemics Innovation During Covid (S04 Ep22)
Jul 30, 2021
Living Out Loud with Global Human Rights Advocate, Micheal Ighodaro (S04 E21)
Jul 13, 2021
Leveraging Technology to Scale Outcomes in Global Health (S04 Ep20)
Jul 11, 2021
Taking a Look at PEPFAR with Journalist-Activist, Emily Bass (S04 E19)
Jul 08, 2021
Adapting Private Sector Strategies for Global Health (S04 E18)
Jul 07, 2021
India’s Continuing COVID Crisis (S04 Ep17)
Jun 27, 2021
Design & the Art of Public Health (S04 Ep16)
May 31, 2021
India’s COVID LGBTQI Crisis (S04 Ep15)
May 22, 2021
Workplace Wellbeing in the Age of COVID (S04 Ep14)
May 08, 2021
Global Health Innovation Financing with Krista Donaldson, CEO of Equalize Health (S04 Ep13)
Apr 24, 2021
EXTREME HUMANISM: A Conversation About Engagement & Human Connection with Management Guru Tom Peters (S04 Ep12)
Apr 10, 2021
A Show of Hope with the San Francisco Community Health Center (S04 Ep10)
Mar 14, 2021
The Pandemics of Discrimination & Stigma (S04 Ep09)
Mar 13, 2021
The Future of Rapid Test Results with Healthvana’s Ramin Bastani (S04 Ep08)
Mar 05, 2021
Communicating One Health with Professors Jonna Mazet and John Parrish-Sprowl (S04 Ep07)
Feb 26, 2021
It’s Not a Sin: Surviving Pandemics with Dr. Rupert Whitaker (S04 Ep06)
Feb 20, 2021
Expanding Health Equity with Google Maps (S04 Ep05)
Feb 12, 2021
Why are Girls and Women More Impacted by COVID-19? (S04 Ep04)
Jan 25, 2021
Honoring World AIDS Day During COVID (S04 Ep03)
Dec 01, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci Talks Truth to COVID (S04 Ep01)
Oct 14, 2020
How Facebook Fights Pandemic Misinformation (S03 Ep12)
Sep 08, 2020
Living with Long COVID (S03 Ep11)
Sep 03, 2020
Rep. Barbara Lee: Fighting for Health Equity in the Time of Pandemics (S03 Ep10)
Aug 05, 2020
Lessons for COVID-19 from Debunking Vaccine Denialism (S03 Ep09)
Aug 05, 2020
A Conversation with Dr. Kimberly Smith of ViiV Healthcare (S03 Ep08)
Jul 09, 2020
The Energy Industry’s Pandemics Preparation & Responses (S03 Ep07)
Jul 08, 2020
COVID-19 & HIV: A Conversation with Peter Piot (S03 Ep06)
Jul 04, 2020
Conversations in Global Health: Jeff Sturchio (S03 Ep05)
Jun 30, 2020
COVID-19: COVID shutdown in South Africa (S03 Ep04)
Jun 14, 2020
COVID-19: Testing and Protection on the Frontline (S03 Ep03)
May 03, 2020
COVID-19: Public Health on the Line (S03 Ep02)
Apr 14, 2020
COVID-19: The Front Line of Facts and Predictions (S03 Ep01)
Apr 05, 2020
COVID-19: When Humans, Wildlife & Climate Collide (S02 Ep09)
Mar 11, 2020
Fighting TB & AIDS with Ambassador Eric Goosby (S02 Ep08)
Jan 21, 2020
A Career in Global Health: Mark P. Lagon (S02 Ep07)
Jan 12, 2020
Indigenous Approaches to Health (S02 Ep06)
Jan 05, 2020
A Conversation About Climate Health (S02 Ep05)
Dec 23, 2019
Episode 19 - The Intersection of Human Rights and Urban Care
Dec 14, 2019
Episode 18 - Harm Reduction: Facing Off the Medical and Legal Establishments
Dec 08, 2019
Episode 17 - Pandemic Preparation with Chan Zuckerberg Biohub’s Cristina Tato
Nov 30, 2019
Episode 16 - The Human Cost of Pharma Progress? (Live Stream)
Sep 01, 2019
Episode 15 - World Health Organization & PZAT at #IAS2019 Mexico City
Jul 25, 2019
Episode 14 - Pep in your Step! Community Education Group at #IAS2019 Mexico City
Jul 23, 2019
Episode 13 - Interview with Gilead's Gregg Alton at #IAS2019 Mexico City
Jul 23, 2019
Episode 12 - LAC Platform & Taiwan's HIV Education Research at #IAS2019 Mexico City
Jul 22, 2019
Episode 11 - MPACT, A Point of Pride (Live Event)
Jun 28, 2019
Episode 10 - Mabuhay! A Conversation with Congressman TJ Cox
Jun 25, 2019
Episode 9 - The Disparate Worlds of the Possible and Struggle
Jun 16, 2019
Episode 8 - The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Pangaea
Jun 08, 2019
Episode 7 - Staying Alive!
Jun 02, 2019
Episode 6 - Of Microbes and Meat
May 22, 2019
Episode 5 - The Greatest Experiment In Social Services
May 09, 2019
Episode 4 - Ebola, Measles, HIV: Lessons for Future Epidemics
Apr 30, 2019
Episode 3 - Women Are The Cure
Apr 22, 2019
Episode 2 - All About the Money
Apr 14, 2019
Episode 1 - 21st Century Prevention
Apr 04, 2019