Dr Maria Neria, Director of the Public Health, Environment and Social Determinants of Health Department of the World Health Organisation
30 Kesä 202014min
Pollution and the pandemic - why poor air quality made things worse
Mounting evidence suggests people who live with polluted air are more likely to catch and die from COVID-19. WHO's Dr Maria Neira tells us why we need a cleaner economy as we rebuild from lockdown, an...
25 Kesä 202019min
Race, racism and COVID-19 with Devi Sridhar
Why are people of colour more likely to catch and die from COVID-19? Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, gives us her view, and also tells us why the as-yet...
18 Kesä 202018min
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Special Envoy to Mobilise International Economic Support for Continental Fight Against COVID-19
Max Hall speaks to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala about issues facing Africa during the COVID-19 outbreak.
16 Kesä 202028min
Impact on Africa, with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
She served as finance minister under two Nigerian presidents, rose through the ranks of the World Bank to become managing director, and now chairs the board of the global vaccine alliance GAVI. Ngozi ...
11 Kesä 202019min
The Great Reset
This week the World Economic Forum and the Prince of Wales launched the Great Reset - a project to bring the world's best minds together to seek a better, fairer, greener, healthier planet as we rebui...
4 Kesä 202021min
Niall Ferguson - A historian's view
In January, Stanford historian and author Niall Ferguson saw the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan for what it was - a pandemic in the making. But what can history teach us about recovery and the road ahe...
29 Touko 202018min
Gita Gopinath
The 'Great Lockdown' that is ravaging the global economy is quite unlike the financial crash of 2008 and requires a different and even bigger response, the IMF Chief Economist says. Also: a survey of ...
21 Touko 202027min
