{"podcast":{"title":"Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters","slug":"global-dispatches-world-news-that-matters-1060314","podcast_index_feed_id":1060314,"rss_url":"https://undispatch.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.globaldispatches.org/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/c/9/a/7/c9a7a5a9fa3f6a5227a2322813b393ee/gloaaldispath.jpg","author":"Global Dispatches","episode_count":1169,"summary":"The longest running independent international affairs podcast features in-depth interviews with policymakers, journalists and experts around the world who discuss global news, international relations, global development and key trends driving world affairs. Named by The Guardian as \"a podcast to make you smarter,\" Global Dispatches is a podcast for people who crave a deeper understanding of international news.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T08:20:50.304960+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-dispatches-world-news-that-matters-1060314"},"episode":{"title":"Stopping Ebola Requires Multilateralism. America's Retreat Is Making That Harder | To Save Us From Hell","slug":"stopping-ebola-requires-multilateralism-america-s-retreat-is-making-that-harder-to-save-us-from-hell","published_at":"2026-05-21T02:31:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-dispatches-world-news-that-matters-1060314/stopping-ebola-requires-multilateralism-america-s-retreat-is-making-that-harder-to-save-us-from-hell","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-dispatches-world-news-that-matters-1060314","url":"https://www.globaldispatches.org/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/undispatch/TSUFH_E60_VIDEO_05052026_GD_v2.mp4?dest-id=125334","summary":"An Ebola outbreak is spiraling in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — and one of the clearest lessons from past outbreaks is that Ebola requires multilateralism: countries working together through existing institutions like the United Nations and the World Health Organization to contain the disease, support frontline health workers, share information, and prevent cross-border spread. But the Trump administration's retreat from the global health architecture built for precisely this kind of emergency has made that task harder. In this episode of To Save Us From Hell , Mark Leon Goldberg and Anjali Dayal discuss how American attacks on the WHO and other key nodes of our global defenses against disease outbreaks have made this particular Ebola outbreak more difficult to contain than it ought to be. Later in the show, they discuss the newest entrant in the race for UN Secretary-General — and whether we can expect more candidates to throw their hats in the ring.","meta_description":"An Ebola outbreak is spiraling in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — and one of the clearest lessons from past outbreaks is that Ebola requires multil…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2278,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/global-dispatches-world-news-that-matters-1060314/episodes/stopping-ebola-requires-multilateralism-america-s-retreat-is-making-that-harder-to-save-us-from-hell/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-dispatches-world-news-that-matters-1060314/stopping-ebola-requires-multilateralism-america-s-retreat-is-making-that-harder-to-save-us-from-hell.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}