The existing health crisis in Yemen has been escalated through conflict, climate change and lack of international aid. Embedded inside the Yemeni health crisis exists an unequal deterioration of healthcare infrastructure and support related to women, specifically reproductive health, which has been motivated by the societal gender disparity which existed pre-conflict. Healthcare Crisis Yemen remains…
Aisha Jumaan, MPH, PhD, is an independent consultant coordinating health projects in Yemen. Dr Jumaan has over 30 years of experience in public health, including in viral vaccine preventable diseases, cancer research, maternal & child health and nutrition, and women in development. She managed the HPV vaccine project for Path and worked with the US…
This week, Dominic Bowen speaks with Serap Dalmizrak about the devastation in Turkey following the multiple earthquakes that have taken place in recent days, with the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on February 6th causing the majority of the damage. They explore the situation on the ground, tales of survival, the second-order risks, how well prepared Turkey…
Serap Dalmizrak is a risk expert and management consultant at 2Secure. She has a Masters degree from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), specialising in International Management. She has contributed to this episode on the Turkey-Syria Earthquake and on this episode about the October 2024 terrorist attack in Turkey.
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, one of Europe’s leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the…
Once partners, the US and China are now each other’s chief adversaries. Over the past decade, relations between these two powerful nations have deteriorated due to opposing governance styles, human rights concerns, and practices – like economic activities – which do not abide to the rules-based order that the US and many western countries advocate…
This week, Dominic Bowen speaks with Michael Schuman about US-China relations, rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific region and the Chinese economy. They explore the competition and rising tensions between the US and China, Xi Jinping’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region, as well as China’s stagnating economy. Michael Schuman is a nonresident senior fellow in the…
Michael Schuman is a nonresident senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and an author and journalist with more than 25 years of experience in Asia. Currently a contributing writer to The Atlantic, he was previously a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. His most recent book is Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the…
DAVID QUAMMEN is an American author and journalist whose seventeen books include The Song of the Dodo (1996), The Reluctant Mr. Darwin (2006), Spillover (2012), and The Tangled Tree (2018). His most recent book, Breathless (2022), describes the scientific effort to trace the origins and evolution of the Covid-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, and to combat the…
This week, Dominic Bowen speaks with Gustavo Ribeiro about the January 8th attack and the political situation in Brazil. They explore what, and who, fuelled and facilitated the January 8th insurrection, as well as political and social risks in Brazil, including corruption and misinformation. Gustavo Ribeiro is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Brazilian Report,…
