Gender equity in Latin American health leadership
Taissa Vila and Elisa Pucu of The Lancet Regional Health Americas are joined by Prof. Felicia Knaul to discuss the lack of gender diversity in medical leadership in Latin America, the gap in evidence...
21 Des 202248min
Louis Pasteur special edition: Rabies
Louis Pasteur was involved in the creation of the first rabies vaccine in the 1880s, but today one person every ten minutes still dies from rabies, with all of the deaths concentrated in low and middl...
15 Des 202229min
Advancing racial and ethnic equity in science, medicine, and global health
A special joint episode sees Prof. Delan Devakumar, host of the Race & Health podcast and Professor of Global Child Health at UCL, speak with Prof. Tendayi Achiume, Dr. Gideon Lasco, and Dr. Sujitha S...
8 Des 202244min
Firearms and public health in the Americas
Why do half of the world's firearm deaths occur in just six countries, all in the Americas? What does consistently treating guns as a public health issue entail? Stephen Hargarten and Arturo Cervantes...
29 Nov 202236min
The role of litigation in fighting the climate crisis
What is climate litigation? How is it used to hold governments to account? What is the role of legal justice in trying to achieve climate justice? Marta Schaaf, director of the program on climate, eco...
8 Nov 202238min
World Polio Day: ”Vaccine-derived” polio, eradication, and surveillance
What does it mean that polio was found in wastewater in London and New York? What is “vaccine-derived” polio? What does eradication mean, and how will we achieve it? On this World Polio Day, Dr. Anand...
24 Okt 202235min
Anthony Fauci on COVID-19, scientific communication, and the future
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States and Director of NIAID, is standing down at the end of 2022. He joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss becoming a household na...
6 Okt 202229min
Gender and equity in rheumatology
Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Rheumatology Heather Van Epps joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss the journal's recent work on gender and equity, and their podcast series looking at the realities of clin...
29 Sep 202231min
