PODCAST: Tom Catena is a Hero Doctor of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains Mark Leon Goldberg June 18, 2018For many years Tom Catena was the only doctor in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan. This is an area on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. In 2011 it was the site of intense fighting between governmen...
PODCAST: Making Sense of the Trump-Kim Summit Mark Leon Goldberg June 14, 2018 When I last spoke with my guest today, Kelsey Davenport, the saber rattling between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un had reached a fever pitch. North Korea was launching nuclear and missile tests; the...
PODCAST: World Food Program Chief David Beasley Discusses Food Crises in the Sahel and North Korea Mark Leon Goldberg June 7, 2018 My guest today, David Beasley is the executive director of the World Food Program. We caught up not long after he visited both the Sahel region of western Africa and from North Korea, where the Wo...
What India Can Teach Indiana About Fighting Diabetes Mark Leon Goldberg June 4, 2018The developing world is where some of the more innovative strategies against diseases have been developed. To a certain extent, this is out of necessity -- poorer communities have higher burdens of preventa...
PODCAST: Kristine McDivitt Tompkins was one of the largest private landowners in the world before she gave it away Mark Leon Goldberg May 31, 2018Kristine McDivitt Tompkins made history earlier this year when she completed what is said to be the largest ever transfer of land from a private entity to a government.In a ceremony in Chile with Presi...
PODCAST: A New Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo Mark Leon Goldberg May 29, 2018The ebola outbreak ongoing the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most severe ebola outbreak since the 2014 calamity in west Africa that killed over 11,000 people.By the last week of May, there a h...
A Conversation with Michael Møller, Director General of the UN Offices in Geneva Mark Leon Goldberg May 24, 2018 I was a bit skeptical when my guest today told me that every person on the planet, in any 24 hour period, is somehow impacted by the work of the UN and other international entities in Geneva. ...
PODCAST: How Shipping Containers Explain the Conflict in Yemen Mark Leon Goldberg May 21, 2018Yemen is experiencing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises and the circuitous route and tangled politics that cargo ships must navigate in order unload their goods on Yemen's ports helps explain why...
How Colonialism Explains Female HIV Rates in Africa Mark Leon Goldberg May 15, 2018Around the world the HIV rates for men and women are more or less equal -- except, that is, in sub-saharan Africa. This is the only region in the world where the HIV rates for women are substantially higher...
