Achieving a disease-free world may seem like a lofty ambition for one sole podcast but Our Big Shot has its feet firmly planted in fact.
This well-timed limited series on vaccination charts the history of medical advances that have saved 154 million lives and outlines what could be done to attempt to create a future without infectious diseases.
Through eight surprisingly entertaining episodes, Dr Seema Yasmin takes listeners through the successes of covid and polio vaccines and onto the dangers posed by viral conspiracy theories, with the help of expert guests in each field.
Dr Yasmin has quite the CV as a public health doctor, stand up comedian and Emmy award-winning journalist. She has worked as an actual “disease detective” for the US federal Government, investigating outbreaks of both disease and misinformation.
The whole thing is editorially independent but is backed by UNICEF, the Gates Foundation and the World Health Organisation and is an important step in fighting back against misinformation around immunisation. It’s a podcast to make you proud of our scientific achievements and excited for what we could achieve in the future. An important tonic in a time of doom and gloom.
