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About CNS

CNS reports on health and development justice

Publisher

CNS www.citizen-news.org

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Aug 2023

Latest episode

6 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

44 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Dec 2025

   [podcast] Co-Chairs of WHO Civil Society Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance share insights

   This Podcast features both co-chairs of first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Katherine Urbaez and Tracie Muraya. Katherine Urbaez is a former diplomat from the Dominican Republic, who has been instrumental throughout her career in numerous negotiations and in developing public policies within various multilateral processes, with a specific focus on health, human rights, and environmental issues. She also served on the Executive Board Membership to WHO. Tracie Muraya is the Deputy Director for Policy & Strategy for ReAct Africa. She engages with policymakers, AMR stakeholders, and national and local AMR Coordinating Committees, including at the Regional Quadripartite and Africa CDC. Tracie coordinates in-country projects in Africa which are implementing National Action Plans on AMR. They were in conversation with Shobha Shukla, Chairperson of Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA) and CNS Executive Director. Background piano music credit: Ms Reya Shukla Iyer and Tara Shukla Iyer. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, ListenNotes, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms. Thanks CNS and GAMA team

2. 

   7 Jan 2025

   [podcast] Reaching the unreached people with TB services in Kangra Dharamshala

   First podcast of 2025 features Dr Rajesh Kumar Sood, District Programme Officer, National Health Mission and District TB Officer (National TB Elimination Programme) Kangra Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is in conversation with CNS founder Managing Editor and Executive Director Shobha Shukla on the ongoing #100Days focussed campaign to #ReachTheUnreached people with best of TB diagnostics, treatment and prevention services in India. Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by a young feminist Ms Tara Shukla Iyer from UK. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms. Thanks CNS team

3. 

   15 Sept 2024

   [podcast] Reality check on gender justice in Kyrgyzstan: Nurgul Dzhanaeva speaks

   This podcast features Nurgul Dzhanaeva, President of the Forum of Women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, who has worked on SDG-related issues at the local, national, regional and global levels. From 2016-2019, she was instrumental in initiating the campaign “From Global to Local” which sought to integrate SDG Goal 5 – to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls – into Kyrgyzstan’s local sustainable development strategies and plans. She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, CNS Founder Executive Director and feminist development justice leader, at the Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF 2024) in Chiang Mai, Thailand.Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by young feminist Ms Tara Iyer Shukla from UK.Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms. Thanks CNS team

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

303,414

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

12

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

60

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