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Abby Maxman is President and CEO of Oxfam America and says “there's no reason in the 21st century that people should be going hungry.”Want to learn more about how you can reduce hunger locally and globally? Check out the links below to learn more about the suggestions that Maxman makes in this episode:Find Your Local Food Pantry, Feeding America Local Food Directories, USDAThe Last Hunger Season by Roger ThurowThe Hungry Farmer- My Moment of Great Disruption Roger Thurow at TEDxChangeIn Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael PollanThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan MealerThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, NetflixOxfam America Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Bomber Mafia is the new audiobook by Revisionist History host (and Pushkin co-founder) Malcolm Gladwell. It examines the rise of air power, which created one of the greatest moral challenges of the Second World War. In The Bomber Mafia, you’ll hear the voices of the generals, aircraft soaring, and bombs crashing. It is history brought to life through the power of audio. Buy the audiobook at bombermafia.com and receive an exclusive Listener's Guide full of photos and commentary. Print and ebook editions available wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Angeline Murimirwa is executive director of the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED). By engaging local communities in their nomination process, young people and their families receive support that makes education more attainable and the benefits of that education more widely enjoyed.Want to learn more about the UN Sustainable Development goal to provide basic education to all young people? Check out the links below. My Better World: Lifeskills and Wellbeing Curriculum from CAMFEDYidan Prize Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Half the Sky PBS Documentary Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen Gender Justice, Development and Rights, edited by Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi The 17 Goals, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Sustainable Development Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As part of our Setbacks series examining the impact of COVID-19 on global development, Paul Farmer explains why he is still optimistic after working for 40 years to end global health inequities. Paul Farmer is a professor at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and Co-Founder of Partners In Health. He believes that solutions flow from addressing social pathologies along with pathogens.Looking to learn more about global health? Check out these links:Partners In HealthFevers, Feuds, And Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History by Paul Farmer         Bending the Arc, NetflixPragmatic Solidarity, by Paul Farmer for The Center for Compassion and Global HealthRwanda starts administering second doses of AstraZeneca vaccinesPartners in Heath, Haiti Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dasia Taylor is a senior at Iowa City West High School. She’s working to develop and produce medical sutures, dyed with beets, that can detect infections and alert patients to signs of risk.According to the WHO patients with surgical site infections are twice as likely to spend time in an intensive care unit, five times more likely to be readmitted after discharge. And twice as likely to die.Out of nearly 2000 students Taylor was recently named one of 40 finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Scholar program and awarded $25,000 for her work.Want to learn more about health equity, surigical site infections and Taylor's work? Check out these links.The difference between a stich and a suture, Healthline.comFrequently Asked Questions about Surgical Site Infections, CDC.govSurgical site infections are the most common and costly of hospital infections, Science DailyWHO Guidelines for Safe Surgery 200917-Year-Old Dasia Taylor Receives Recognition For Developing Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection” AfroTech.comWest High senior Dasia Taylor recognized as Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist, The Daily IowanHealth equity: challenges in low income countriesClosing the Health Equity Gap, WHOWe Must Enhance—but also Decolonize—America’s Global Health Diplomacy, Scientific American Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cults and other manipulative groups are an issue of public health and Diane Benscoter has strategies that may help.Diane Benscoter is the founder of Antidote and the author of Shoes of a Servant: My Unconditional Devotion to a Lie.Here are some links to additional information about cults and psychological manipulation and how to find support:Support for Individuals, from Antidote Support for Families, from AntidoteFreedom of Mind Institute Cult Deprogramming vs. Strategic Interactive Approach from Steven HassanCourse: Understand Cults: The Basics, by Steven HassanOpen Minds Foundation: Resources Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Keller Rinaudo is the CEO and Founder of Zipline International. Their “sky ambulance” service is delivering medical supplies to hard to reach places via drone delivery.Here are some links to information and resources that Rinaudo mentioned in this episode.Zipline InternationalFactfulness by Hans and Ola Rosling Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker Children: Improving Survival and Wellbeing, UN World Health Organization, Sept 8, 2020Mobile Money Adoption in Kenya, TechCrunch, March 25, 2020 Zipline’s drones are delivering medical supplies and PPE in North Carolina, The Verge, May 2020Walmart drone deliveries, The Verge, Sept 2020 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Resmaa Menakem is an author and psychotherapist working in Minneapolis Minnesota. As a specialist focused on racial trauma, Menakem works to help people metabolize intergenerational pain and pay attention to the cues their bodies are communicating rather than burying them.Here are links that Menakem recommends to learn more about trauma and systemic racism, and links to some tools that can help to address both.Hotlines for Survivors of Violence and TraumaMy Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem More about Somatic Abolitionism from Resmaa MenakemMe and White Supremacy, by Layla F. SaadWhite Fragility, by Robin DiAngeloAdrienne Maree Brown: http://adriennemareebrown.net/Rachel Cargle: https://www.rachelcargle.com/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Yang is running for Mayor of New York City and he thinks that extreme poverty is a solvable problem. Here are some links to learn more about universal basic income and guaranteed minimum income. “2021 Will Be the Year of Guaranteed Income Experiments,” Bloomberg News, Jan 4, 2021“Andrew Yang's 'People's Bank' to Help Distribute Basic Income to 55K New Yorkers,”Newsweek, Feb 17, 2021“Universal Basic Income: A Thoroughly Wrongheaded Idea,” Forbes, Jan 16, 2019“Free cash handouts: What is universal basic income or UBI,” CNBC, June 27, 2019“Payment Guaranteed: How Would Universal Basic Income Affect Business?” Business News Daily, May 11, 2020“Universal Basic Income: Purpose, Pros and Cons,”The Balance, Aug 19, 2020  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catherine Coleman Flowers is the Founder and Director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. She was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2020 for her work researching and documenting America’s waste water failures. Learn more:Have you faced local sanitation issues in the US? We want to hear from you, The Guardian, 2021Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret By Catherine Coleman FlowersCatherine Coleman Flowers, Class of 2020, MacArthur FoundationBiden Urged to Back Water Bill in Amid US Worst Crisis in Decades, The Guardian, 2021The people suffering have to have a seat at the table, Southerly Dec. 2020At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 By Taylor BranchSolvable's senior producer is Jocelyn Frank. Research and booking by Lisa Dunn. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.