Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss the centrality of health issues to UK politics, what the upcoming election should be fought on, and the role of equity and equality in UK health outcomes. Send us your feedback! Read all of our content at https://www.thelancet.com/?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_generic_lancet Check out all th...
Jan 25, 2024•34 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Eugenics is a concept closely tied to what makes us unwell, and its roots in race medicine amplifies the drivers of racial health inequities, ableism, and white supremacy. Though scientifically flawed, eugenic thinking is present throughout modern-day society and politics. We can see eugenic thinking in policies and protocols throughout the pandemic, through mental health, and much more. In the third episode of our collaboration with the Race & Health podcast, we learn about how eugenics was...
Jan 11, 2024•39 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Richard Horton joins Jessamy and Gavin to discuss his highlights (and lowlights!) of 2023, and looks forward to an important 2024 for global health. Send us your feedback! Read all of our content at https://www.thelancet.com/?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_generic_lancet Check out all the podcasts from The Lancet Group: https://www.thelancet.com/multimedia/podcasts?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_generic_lancet Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... ...
Dec 14, 2023•53 min•Season 4Ep. 29
How does historically divisive discourse and the political systems and institutions that grow from them reinforce inequities? Learn more about these issues with our guests Gustavo Andrey de Almeida Lopes Fernandes, Professor of Public Policy at the A Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil, Alexandra Haas, the executive director of Oxfam Mexico, and Martin McKee, a Professor of European Public Health and Medical Director at the London School of Hygiene...
Dec 07, 2023•37 min•Season 4Ep. 28
What are the benefits of urban green and blue spaces for health? Ruth Hunter from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, and Thomas Astell-Burt from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, talk to Lauren Southwell and Heather Brown about the importance of these spaces and the challenges in translating their potential benefits into improved health outcomes. You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to health and climate change here: https://www.thelancet.com/l...
Nov 23, 2023•55 min•Season 4Ep. 27
Dr Forbes McGain and Dr Cristina Richie join Lancet editors Chloe Wilson and John Carson to discuss the whys, the hows, and the ethics of decarbonising global healthcare. You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to health and climate change here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/health-climate-change?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_lancet200_hcc Find out more about how The Lancet is marking its 200th anniversary with a series of important spotlights here: https://www.thelancet.com/lanc...
Nov 09, 2023•51 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Host Delan Devakumar is joined by Kevin Fenton (Public Health Director for London, UK), Ayoade Alakija (Chair of the African Vaccine Delivery Alliance), and Kumanan Rasanathan (Executive Director, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research) to explore COVID-19 and racism by unpacking key themes of power and influence. Drawing from their experiences in public health practice and global health policy, they discuss how racism stratifies power across the community and structural levels, and why...
Nov 06, 2023•37 min•Season 4Ep. 25
Welcome to a series of podcasts produced as a collaboration between The Lancet Voice and the Race & Health podcast. The upcoming series will host a diverse array of experts, activists, and storytellers. We will take a deep dive into issues ranging from COVID-19, to history, to populism. This series offers expert perspectives, technical background, and field accounts to provide listeners a better understanding of racism and its impact health around the world. For this introductory episode, ho...
Nov 06, 2023•13 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Dr Patricia Fabian and Professor Ollie Jay join Lancet editors Saleha Hassan and Pierre Nauleau to discuss the current and potential future impacts of climate-change induced extreme heat on health - from the mechanisms that link temperature and health to potential adaptation strategies to build resilience in a heating world. You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to health and climate change here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/health-climate-change?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_...
Oct 26, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 23
Action on climate change globally has been too little, too slow, or politically fragile. Professors Colin Davis and Dana Fisher join John Carson, Senior Editor at The Lancet Planetary Health , to discuss how social movements and activism can effectively persuade the public and politicians to support bolder action on climate change. You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to health and climate change here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/health-climate-change?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_p...
Oct 12, 2023•53 min•Season 4Ep. 22
The generation of research has long excluded some voices, while prioritising others. In conversation with Mabel Chew, Senior Editor at The Lancet , Australian First Nations researchers Fiona Cornforth and Ray Lovett, and global South researchers Nancy Kagwanja, Sudha Ramani, and Eleanor Whyle, explain how this still happens today and what we need to do to decolonise research. You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to research for health here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/resea...
Sep 28, 2023•47 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Generating scientific evidence is, although essential, just the first step. For clinical practice to be driven by evidence we must ensure that the knowledge is translated into policies that guide practice and are available for all. But how? The road from research to clinics is not a linear one, nor it is the same in every setting. Trials conducted in high-income countries can offer limited support to practice-changing in other contexts. So how do we go from evidence to implementation? Taissa Vil...
Sep 14, 2023•33 min•Season 4Ep. 20
Gavin and Jessamy return to the studio for a special chat marking 100 episodes, and are joined by Richard Horton to look back across the last few years of global health and COVID, and discuss the changing landscape of health. Send us your feedback! Read all of our content at https://www.thelancet.com/?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_generic_lancet Check out all the podcasts from The Lancet Group: https://www.thelancet.com/multimedia/podcasts?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_generic_lancet Continue this...
Sep 07, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 19
What are the difficulties of pursuing a research career? How do hard choices and decisions affect your path? And what does an ideal mentor-mentee relationship look like? Dan Erkes, Senior Editor at The Lancet , speaks with Laura Marcela Aguirre-Martínez, a member of the youth advisory panel of The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health , and Lyda Osorio, an associate professor at the Universidad del Valle about moving through one’s career. You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to researc...
Aug 17, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 18
How can clinical research better involve and recognise those with lived experience? Ensuring diverse representation and removing barriers to trial participation is essential for equitable health research, but key voices are being missed. Senior editor at The Lancet Callam Davidson is joined by trialist Otavio Berwanger and consumer adviser Vicki Grey to discuss the benefits and challenges of patient and public involvement, in the first of a series of podcasts spotlighting research for health. Yo...
Aug 03, 2023•48 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Content warning: Discussion of traumatic experiences Sophia Davis, Senior Editor at The Lancet Psychiatry , is joined by Judith Lewis Herman, Duane Booysen, and Angela Sweeney to talk about the impact of trauma and routes to recovery. They discuss how ideas about trauma have changed over time, and about how trauma happens not just to an individual but within social contexts, and the recovery or healing from trauma does too. They also consider the importance of the context of different countries,...
Jul 20, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Anya Sharman, Assistant Editor at The Lancet , is joined by Pat McGorry and Stephan Zipfel to discuss breaking down barriers in mental health services, specifically, the challenges that professionals face when working in mental health, their role in scaling-up services, and the stigma surrounding the profession. You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to mental health here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/mental-health?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_lancet200_uhc Find out more about...
Jun 29, 2023•53 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Sophia Davis, Senior Editor of The Lancet Psychiatry , is joined by Laura Fischer, Sarah Garfinkel, and Simon Rosenbaum to talk about how physical and mental health are interlinked, from the connections between mental and physical health conditions, to the physiological and neurobiological mechanisms involved in mental health and ill health, and to mental health interventions that are integrating the body within them. You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to mental health here: https...
Jun 19, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Helena Wang, Asia Executive Editor at The Lancet , is joined by three guests to discuss the trajectory of mental health services in China, culturally-adapted mental health interventions for Chinese populations, and self-harm and suicide prevention approaches for children and adolescents in China. Guests on this podcast: Michael Phillips - the Director of Suicide Research and Prevention Center, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Siying Li - PhD candida...
Jun 01, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 13
When is universal health coverage not actually universal? What are the main hurdles to universality? And how can we get health coverage to hard-to-reach population? To discuss this and more, Jessamy is joined by Prof. Joseph Wong, Vice President, International, of the University of Toronto and founder of the Reach Alliance, and three members of the Global Reach Alliance, Elizabeth Lubinda, a maternal health and HIV/AIDS researcher at the University of Cape Town, Francesca Lanzarotti, a Women&apo...
May 25, 2023•43 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Justin Koonin and Helga Fogstad, of the Coalition of Partnerships for UHC and Global Health, join Zoë Mullan to discuss their hopes and expectations for the upcoming High-Level Meetings on health in 2023. Find out more about how The Lancet is marking its 200th anniversary with a series of important spotlights here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_lancet200_uhc You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to Universal Health Coverage here: https://www.thelan...
May 04, 2023•24 min•Season 4Ep. 11
How can we innovate to make UHC more efficient? How does UHC need to adapt in times of crisis? Pooja Jha, Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Regional Health: Europe , is joined by Sarah Thomson, Triin Habicht, and Haja Wurie to discuss. Find out more about how The Lancet is marking its 200th anniversary with a series of important spotlights here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_lancet200_uhc You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to Universal Health Covera...
Apr 20, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 10
How can health systems make progress towards financing UHC? What are the different approaches? And why don't voluntary contribution and out-of-pocket systems perform as well? Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Global Health, Zoe Mullan, is joined by Irene Agyepong and Joseph Kutzin to discuss how funding affects UHC, in the first of a series of podcasts spotlighting UHC's importance to health. Find out more about how The Lancet is marking its 200th anniversary with a series of important spo...
Apr 06, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Dr. Sam Guglani, an oncologist from Cheltenham, UK, has been running Medicine Unboxed for ten sold-out years. His show examines the interface between medicine, philosophy, and the humanities through a series of speakers and performances. Here, he joins Gavin to discuss philosophy, "good medicine", and the show's move to London. Find out more about Medicine Unboxed here: https://voices.medicineunboxed.org/ Send us your feedback! Read all of our content at https://www.thelancet.com/...
Mar 30, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Jessamy Bagenal is joined by Dr. Eduardo J. Gomez and Pauline Mapfumo to discuss the drivers of childhood obesity, predatory industry tactics, and what steps can be taken to help bring down levels of childhood obesity. See the rest of our Child & Adolescent Health Spotlight content: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/child-adolescent-health Send us your feedback! Read all of our content at https://www.thelancet.com/?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_generic_lancet Check out all the podcasts fro...
Mar 23, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Georgia Bisbas and Priya Chudasama are joined by Jhumka Gupta, Zeal Desai, and Ziyu Peng to discuss "Taxes, Taboos, Tampons, (and TikTok)—the state of period poverty worldwide". See the rest of our Child & Adolescent Health Spotlight content: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/child-adolescent-health Send us your feedback! Read all of our content at https://www.thelancet.com/?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_generic_lancet Check out all the podcasts from The Lancet Group: https://www...
Mar 02, 2023•45 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Can the countries of the world learn from the mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic? The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention is calling for an international treaty which could stop the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic. Dame Barbara Stocking, chair of the panel, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss progress that has been made, how such a treaty could be enforced, and what needs to happen. Send us your feedback! Read all of our content at https://www.thelancet.com/?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_pod...
Feb 23, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Indigenous children and adolescents, regardless of where in the world they live, have worse health outcomes than other groups of children and adolescents. For our second Spotlight podcast in the Child and Adolescent Health Spotlight, acting Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Healthy Longevity Philippa Harris is joined by Lisa Richardson, Indigenous Health Strategy Lead at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, and Yves Minani, executive director of UPARED in Burundi, to discuss health among childr...
Feb 16, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Phoebe Ashley-Norman is joined by Kareem Zuhdi, Ramona Hiltensperger, and Tanaka Mukuhwa to discuss the importance of children and adolescents being able to access peer support facilities. Guests on this podcast: Kareem Zuhdi – @KareemZuhdi Crisis textline - https://www.crisistextline.org/ Naseeha (Muslim Catered hotline) - https://naseeha.org/ Ramona Hiltensperger - @rhiltensperger UPSIDES webinars, training manual, interviews with peer support workers etc - https://www.upsides.org/output/ UPSI...
Feb 02, 2023•47 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Members of The Lancet ’s International Advisory Board and staff members reflect on 200 years of The Lancet and talk about what it means to them. This podcast contains reflections from: Chris Murray Joy Lawn Duc Le Giuseppe Remuzzi Helena Wang Lan-Lan Smith Irene Agyepong Astrid James Jie Qiao Onisillos Sekkides Anthony Costello Peter Hayward Rita Giacaman Samer Jabbour Robert Beaglehole See all of our 200th Anniversary work here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200 Send us your feedback! Read a...
Jan 19, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 2
