While Covid has killed more than 1 million people to date, deaths from infectious diseases are estimated at more than 20 million yearly, Ryan Whitacre, postdoctoral research fellow at the Global health centre, presents the current mechanisms put in place for measuring and mitigating epidemiological risks and are they efficient. This interview for the webzine Global Challenges no. 8 | Nov. 2020 entitled "The New Frontiers of Risk" as been realized by Marc Galvin and edited by Michelle Olguin for the Research Office (Geneva Graduate Institute.

The Unlikely Hierarchy of Health Risk, with Ryan Whitacre

According to Yuval Noah Harari, there is a risk that the AI revolution could create unprecedented inequalities not only between classes, but also between countries. Why is this risk not addressed more seriously by policy-makers and political leaders? To what extent and how is AI and big data likely to contribute to better apprehend and mitigate global risks in the future? Michael Kende, Ph.D. in economics (MIT) and Visiting Lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute, answers these questions for the webzine Global Challenges no. 8 | Nov. 2020 entitled The new frontiers of risk. Podcast produced by Marc Galvin and Michelle Olguin for the Research Office (Geneva Graduate Institute).

AI, Big Data, and Big Risk? With Michael Kende

Que dit l’anthropologie sur le thème de l'inégalité comme fondement organisationnel des sociétés? Comment l’anthropologue du développement analyse la continuelle croissance des inégalités au Nord comme au Sud, malgré des décennies d’aides internationales? Peut-on dire que les inégalités en termes d'identité (race, genre, etc) ont pris le pas sur les inégalités économiques ou de classes sociales? Qu’en est-il dans les pays du Sud ? Gilbert Rist, Professeur honoraire d'anthropologie (Geneva Graduate Institute) aborde ces questions pour le webzine Global Challenges no. 9 | Mars 2021 intitulé The Moving Fault Lines of Inequality. Podcast réalisé par Marc Galvin pour le Bureau de la recherche (Geneva Graduate Institute).

Inégalités, anthropologie et développement, avec Gilbert Rist

Are there tensions between the universal logic inherent to human rights and the defense of specific rights at the levels of specific groups and identities? Are inequalities and human rights currently being redefined? And, if so, how is this impacting their interaction? How can the human rights framework be improved to better address humanities on a global scale?
Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, and distinguished Fellow and Research Associate, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, answers these questions for the webzine Global Challenges no. 9 | March. 2021 entitled The Moving Fault Lines of Inequality. Podcast produced by Marc Galvin for the Research Office (Geneva Graduate Institute).

Inequalities and Humans Rights. With Irene Khan

Le débat sur la décolonisation est vif en occident, notamment chez les intellectuels et les militants. Comment ce débat est-il perçu depuis l'Afrique francophone par exemple? Les relations entre pays africains et ex pays colonisés sont-elles encore très "colonisées"? Est-il raisonnable d'attendre à long terme (du projet de décolonisation) des changements institutionnels et politiques (au niveau des Etats et ou des ententes régionales)? Eric Degila, Professeur de pratique en relations internationales (Geneva Graduate Institute) traite ces questions pour le webzine Global Challenges no. 10 | octobre 2021 intitulé Decolonisation: A Past That Keeps Questioning Us. Podcast réalisé par Marc Galvin pour le Research Office (Geneva Graduate Institute).

Décolonisation et impacts institutionnels en Afrique, avec Eric Degila

In A room of one's own is not enough: decolonising the university space, Gaya Raddadi, former Master student at the Geneva Graduate Institute, examines the colonial legacies shaping universities and outlines different approaches to decolonizing the institution as both a theoretical and a physical space. She presents her publication in this podcast for the webzine Global Challenges no. 10 | Oct. 2021 entitled Decolonisation: A Past That Keeps Questioning Us. Podcast produced by Marc Galvin and Michelle Olguin for the Research Office (Geneva Graduate Institute).

Decolonising the University Space, by Gaya Raddadi

International organizations are composed of a wide range of state representatives with diverse political systems and cultural backgrounds. How does this contribute to the reproduction of colonial legacies? How can this be an opportunity for decolonisation of international politics to exist in practice? The UN system has been grounded on Western values, most notably universal human rights, but also many notions of progress (and associated racialized teleologies). From such a perspective, how can the UN be decolonized ? Julie Billaud, professor of anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute answers this question for the webzine Global Challenges no. 10 | Oct. 2021 entitled Decolonisation: A Past That Keeps Questioning Us. Podcast produced by Marc Galvin and Dominic Eggel for the Research Office (Geneva Graduate Institute).

Decolonisation and International Organisations, by Prof. Julie Billaud

Alors que la notion de décolonisation devient un concept clé pour penser l'ordre mondial, les populations autochtones restent les dernières nations à être exclues de ce processus. Pourtant leur combat pour leur autodétermination et donc en faveur de la décolonisation est très ancien. Quel regard portez-vous sur ce chemin parcouru? Avez-vous le sentiment que la pensée autochtone (à travers ses représentants) reste marginale aujourd'hui dans le monde intellectuel, ou bien une grille de lecture propre a fait son chemin ? Existent-ils des utopies portées par eux qui pourraient inspirer les penseurs, et nous aider à imaginer des alternatives au projet cosmopolitique Kantien ? Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff, professeure honoraire d'anthropologie à l'Institut universitaire de hautes études à Genève, répond à cette question pour le webzine Global Challenges no. 10 | Oct. 2021 intitulé Décolonisation : Un passé qui n'en finit pas de nous interroger. Podcast réalisé par Marc Galvin pour le Bureau de la recherche (Geneva Graduate Institute).

Peuples autochtones et décolonisation en 2021, avec Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff

Based on his research project “Decolonising the Psyche: The Politics of Ethnopsychology, 1930-1980” aimed to study the political implications of debates on the nature of the human psyche – particularly of people from the Global South – during the “long” moment of decolonisation, Prof Mischa Suter, SNSF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR at the Geneva Graduate Institute, talks about the entanglements between science, imperialism and decolonisation? You can find this podcast produced by Marc Galvin (with Michelle Olguin and Dominic Eggel) for the Research Office at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and published in the webzine Global Challenges no. 10 | Oct. 2021 entitled Decolonisation: A Past That Keeps Questioning Us.

Decolonising the Psyche, with Prof Mischa Suter

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) affects 1 in every 6 women giving birth and is the leading cause of maternal mortality globally. Death from PPH is largely preventable and has been nearly eliminated in high-income countries, yet women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) continue to be disproportionately affected.
While policymakers at national levels struggle with this problem, a group of midwives in a remote mountain village in Indonesia solved the problem and have sustained zero maternal mortality continuously since 2015. They achieved this remarkable accomplishment using simple innovations, at zero cost. We interviewed Maya Hidayati, the head midwife who spearheaded the effort, together with Anna Kurniati, Director of Workforce Deployment at the Indonesian Ministry of Health.
By the Global Health Platform of the Global Health Centre (GHC), Geneva Graduate Institute.

Can midwifery eliminate maternal mortality? Innovations from Indonesia

Despite being there for many years, One Health has gained a lot of attention in the last year at the political level. With the new trends and changes appearing in health diplomacy, and the intersections with One Health, Katherine Urbáez talks about her research results and how diplomacy has been a tool for implementing new policies. This interview is provided by the Global Health Platform of the Global Health Centre (GHC), Geneva Graduate Institute.

Implementing One Health through Global Health diplomacy: Comparing Switzerland and Rwanda

Research Office, Geneva Graduate Institute