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The Alliance LiftThe Alliance Lift: Dr Katherine Ann Reyes in conversation with Mr Jeffrey KnezovichIn this episode, Mr Jeffrey Knezovich, host of The Alliance Lift, speaks with Dr Katherine Ann Reyes, based at the University of the Philippines Manila. A physician by training, Dr Reyes works at the intersection of public health, policy and health systems, with a focus on practical policy choices that affect everyday life – from tobacco control and healthy consumption to immunization and stronger promotive and preventive care.Jeffrey spoke with Katherine about the experiences that drew her from hospital-based care into prevention and public health, what she learned through the Alliance’s mentorship community and what makes the...
2026-01-2623 min
The Alliance LiftThe Alliance Lift: Professor Asha George in conversation with Ms Idil Shekh MohamedThe Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this episode, Ms Idil Shekh Mohamed, host of the Alliance Lift, speaks with Professor Asha George, the South African Research Chair in Health Systems, Complexity and Social Change at the University of the Western Cape. A globally recognized qualitative researcher, Professor George examines the interface between communities, health workers and health systems through lenses of governance, gender and human rights. She also serves as the Alliance’s 2025 Thinker in Residence, supporting reflection on how the field of health policy an...
2026-01-0523 min
The Alliance LiftThe Alliance Lift: Ms Racha Fadlallah in conversation with Mr Jeffrey KnezovichThe Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, Mr Jeffrey Knezovich, a Technical Officer at the Alliance, talks with Ms Racha Fadlallah, a Senior Scientific Officer at the Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center at the American University of Beirut and co-founder of the SPARK Center for systematic reviews in health policy and systems research. Beyond Lebanon, she also serves on the Board of Health Systems Global and contributes to the strategic direction of WHO’s Evidence-Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet).Jeffrey spoke wi...
2025-12-0225 min
The Alliance LiftThe Alliance Lift: Dr Rachidatou Compaoré in conversation with Ms Idil Shekh MohamedIn this episode of The Alliance Lift, Dr Rachidatou Compaoré – a public health physician and researcher from Burkina Faso whose work bridges health systems, policy, and reproductive health – speaks with Ms Idil Shekh Mohamed, Technical Officer at the Alliance. As a Research Fellow at the Institute of Research in Health Sciences in Ouagadougou, Dr Compaoré’s studies have helped inform Burkina Faso’s national malaria control strategy and contributed to reforms in maternal and adolescent health across West Africa.She reflects on her journey from clinical medicine to public health – shaped by the inequities she witnessed in...
2025-10-2721 min
The Alliance LiftThe Alliance Lift – Dr John-Arne Røttingen in conversation with Dr Kumanan RasanathanThe Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the world. In this episode, Executive Director Dr Kumanan Rasanathan speaks with Dr John-Arne Røttingen, Chief Executive Officer of the Wellcome Trust, former Global Health Ambassador of Norway, and past Chair of the Alliance Board. Their conversation explores the ideas and experiences that have shaped John-Arne’s approach to health policy and systems research. They discuss what it will take to safeguard health gains in the face of shrinking aid and shifting geopolitics, and how the global health system can better del...
2025-09-1830 min
The Alliance LiftThe Alliance Lift: Dr Archana Shrestha in conversation with Ms Giulia LoffredaThe Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, Ms Giulia Loffreda chats with Dr Archana Shrestha, a Nepali epidemiologist, researcher and educator whose work is reshaping how we think about prevention and implementation science in low- and middle-income countries. We asked Archana about the experiences that shaped her journey, the lessons she has learned from working closely with communities, and her vision for the future.
2025-09-0419 min
The Alliance LiftThe Alliance Lift: Ms Livia Dal Zennaro in conversation Ms Idil Shekh MohamedThe Alliance Lift is the series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, we meet Livia Dal Zennaro, now Senior Policy Officer at the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport – and formerly part of the Alliance Secretariat. We hear how she found her path into health policy and systems research and how that experience continues to shape her work today.
2025-08-1215 min
The Alliance LiftThe Alliance Lift: Dr Eric Ssegujja in conversation with The Alliance Lift – Dr John-Arne Røttingen in conversation with Ms Idil Shekh MohamedThe Alliance Lift is the series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, we meet Dr Eric Ssegujja, a leading public health researcher and educator based at Makerere University in Uganda. He has deep experience across adolescent and maternal health, health taxes, urban health and knowledge systems. In this interview, Eric reflects on his professional journey, the importance of theory and methods in health policy and systems research (HPSR), and what the future holds for the field.
2025-07-0717 min
The Alliance LiftThe Alliance Lift: Dr Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo with Ms Idil Shekh MohamedThe Alliance Lift is the series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, we meet Dr Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, a Peruvian medical doctor, health scientist and Indigenous scholar from a Quechua community in Ancash. Her work focuses on transforming health systems through intercultural approaches rooted in Indigenous knowledge, climate resilience and equity. Carol's unique journey combines academic training with deep personal reflection and cultural reconnection. Currently affiliated with Cayetano Heredia University in Peru, she also co-chairs the Indigenous People's Observatory Network and has contributed to major global scientific initiatives. In th...
2025-06-1619 min
Translational Health SciencesThe changing dynamics of mixed health systems in low and middle-income countries (LMIC)Professor Kabir Sheikh discusses how social trends shape health systems in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on the complex mix of public-private, traditional-modern, and digital-nondigital axes. Health systems are social systems, and are shaped by broader trends such as urbanisation, commercialisation, the information revolution, and the post-pandemic social reordering. Against that backdrop, the configuration of health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is often deeply heterogeneous or “mixed” across different intersecting axes, for instance: public-private, professional-lay, traditional-modern, and digital-nondigital. These dynamic and contested intersections influence health system performance and equity, and also create unique policy challenges and opportunities. Professor Shei...
2024-06-2648 min
Dommed & Stoned: ESPECIALESENTREVISTA: Gabriele Fiori (HPSR & Black Rainbows) 2022Entrevista con el jefe Gabriele Fiori de Heavy Psych Sounds Records & Black Rainbowshttps://www.facebook.com/HEAVYPSYCHSOUNDS
2022-10-041h 15
Collective Power PodcastData Geek Series: Data Are Never Gospel Disrupting whiteness in Health Systems with Dr. Sharon Attipoe, Rachel Dungan, and Janice TufteIn this show, three experts of health systems data bring us insights into how racism and bias contribute to all points of health data collection, from uncovering old assumptions--like assuming lower thresholds of pain for African Americans, competition among groups, inappropriate diagnoses for bodies of color. Our guests invite us to recommend engaging diverse stakeholders in problem-solving, centering narratives on the direct experience of patients, disrupting and questioning the norm of whiteness in all aspects of health systems. Our guests are Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, Janice Tufte and Rachel Dungan.Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, Ph.D., MPH is Pr...
2022-02-0756 min
Shaping the Post-COVID WorldWhat is Colonial about Global Health?Contributor(s): Professor Paul Farmer, Dr Mosoka Fallah, Dr Sumegha Asthana | Can COVID-19 invigorate an alternative vision for the future of global health?
Our panel address the legacy of colonialism within international health systems and ask: what is the relationship between histories of imperialism and health, development and human rights? How can international institutions be reformed to overturn the global North’s dominance in health programming? How might new funding arrangements that empower global South infrastructures affect the public health agenda?
The pandemic offers an opportunity to critically appraise the current state of global health and its governance structures. In di...
2021-03-0355 min
Atlantic FellowsHEALTH SYSTEMS AFRICA CONVENING 2020 | SESSION 1 - Decoloniality & African Health SystemsSESSION 1 - 30.09.20 | EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN DECOLONIALITY & AFRICAN HEALTH SYSTEMS - A CONVERSATION IN 'POST-COLONIAL' AFRICA
Globally, decoloniality requires researchers and practitioners located in Africa to build and develop collective capacities and knowledge archives that centres Africa and African people. This Convening foregrounds African people as experts, and provides us with an opportunity to highlight our own solutions to the challenges faced on the African continent in the area of African Health
Policy and Systems Research (HPSR).
This Convening was co-sponsored by HEALTH SYSTEMS GLOBAL (HSG), the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, TEKANO, CHESAI and WITS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF THE...
2021-01-131h 22
Atlantic FellowsHEALTH SYSTEMS AFRICA CONVENING 2020 | SESSION 2 - Creating an African ProjectSESSION 2 - 01.10.20 | CREATING AN AFRICAN PROJECT - RETHINKING THE CONFIGURATION OF KNOWLEDGE TO ADVANCE AFRICAN HEALTH & HEALTH SYSTEMS
Globally, decoloniality requires researchers and practitioners located in Africa to build and develop collective capacities and knowledge archives that centres Africa and African people. This Convening foregrounds African people as experts, and provides us with an opportunity to highlight our own solutions to the challenges faced on the African continent in the area of African Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR).
This Convening was co-sponsored by HEALTH SYSTEMS GLOBAL (HSG), the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, TEKANO, CHESAI and WITS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY...
2021-01-131h 21
Atlantic FellowsHEALTH SYSTEMS AFRICA CONVENING 2020 | SESSION 3 - From Paradigm to PraxisSESSION 3 - 02.10.20 | FROM PARADIGM TO PRAXIS - TOOLS FOR DECOLONIAL AFRICAN HEALTH SYSTEMS & POLICY RESEARCH
Globally, decoloniality requires researchers and practitioners located in Africa to build and develop collective capacities and knowledge archives that centres Africa and African people. This Convening foregrounds African people as experts, and provides us with an opportunity to highlight our own solutions to the challenges faced on the African continent in the area of African Health
Policy and Systems Research (HPSR).
This Convening was co-sponsored by HEALTH SYSTEMS GLOBAL (HSG), the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, TEKANO, CHESAI and WITS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND.
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2021-01-131h 42
Your Digital Mentor PodcastDecolonising Global HealthTakeaways from today's episode: Decolonising global health is an ongoing movement allowing people (and researchers) to provide a local context in the conversations surrounding health. Though many definitions exist, it is based on the undoing of the colonial legacy that surrounds countries in the global south.Local health is global health - a local context is required to make it global. It is important to reflect on issues on decolonising global health to avoid neo-colonization and include diverse voices from the global south to spearhead the movement.It is not just about putting a researcher from the global sou...
2020-11-2557 min![DEF CON 23 [Audio] Speeches from the Hacker Convention](http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-23/dc-23-itunes-logo-Audio.jpg){kind=logo}
DEF CON 23 [Audio] Speeches from the Hacker ConventionJoshua Smith - High-Def Fuzzing: Exploring Vulnerabilities in HDMI-CECMaterials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Joshua-Smith-High-Def-Fuzzing-Exploitation-Over-HDMI-CEC-UPDATED.pdf
High-Def Fuzzing: Exploring Vulnerabilities in HDMI-CEC
Joshua Smith Senior Security Researcher, HP Zero Day Initiative
The HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) standard has gained extensive market penetration. Nearly every piece of modern home theater equipment has HDMI support and most modern mobile devices actually have HDMI-capable outputs, though it may not be obvious. Lurking inside most modern HDMI-compatible devices is something called HDMI-CEC, or Consumer Electronics Control. This is the functionality that allows a media device to, for example, turn...
2015-10-2200 minDEF CON 23 [Audio] Speeches from the Hacker ConventionBrian Gorenc, Abdul-Aziz Hariri, Jasiel Spelman - Abusing Adobe Reader’s JavaScript APIsMaterials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Hariri-Spelman-Gorenc-Abusing-Adobe-Readers-JavaScript-APIs.pdf
Abusing Adobe Reader’s JavaScript APIs
Brian Gorenc Manager, HP’s Zero Day Initiative
Abdul-Aziz Hariri Security Researcher, HP’s Zero Day Initiative
Jasiel Spelman Security Researcher, HP’s Zero Day Initiative
Adobe Reader’s JavaScript APIs offer a rich set of functionality for document authors. These APIs allow for processing forms, controlling multimedia events, and communicating with databases, all of which provide end-users the ability to create complex documents. This complexity provides a perfect avenue for attackers to take ad...
2015-10-1600 min