Yuki Minato and Rob Lake on the global burden of foodborne disease
An update of the 2015 WHO estimates of foodborne disease shows that in 2021 alone, transmission of 42 different hazards in food caused 866 million illnesses and 1.52 million deaths. So what can be don...
17 Sep 26min
Shatha Elnakib on the future of maternal and child health in Afghanistan
Since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan again in 2021, women have been prevented from studying and therefore from training to provide services to mothers, newborns, and children. Dr. Shatha Elna...
19 Aug 15min
Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro and Kinza Hasan at Women Deliver 2026 in Melbourne/Naarm
Coming to you from Women Deliver 2026 in Melbourne/Naarm, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health Gavin Cleaver speaks with Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro, the new director general of the Internatio...
19 Juni 30min
Isata Dumbuya and Allison Adamson on maternal health in Sierra Leone
Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, is joined by Isata Dumbuya and Allison Adamson to discuss the building and launch of the new Paul E. Farmer Maternal Centre of Excellent in Si...
23 Apr 28min
Madhukar Pai on tuberculosis
What systems fix would unlock the biggest equity gains? Should countries target patients with TB or conduct universal interventions? What does self-reliance look like post-aid cuts? Madhukar Pai joi...
16 Mars 36min
The Lancet Global Health editors on conferences, implementation, and 2026
Zoë Mullan, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Global Health, chats with Pingyue Jin, acting deputy editor, Gavin Cleaver, senior editor, and Shangrong Han, senior editor. We talk about about global healt...
16 Feb 29min
Alejandra Paniagua-Avila on implementing mental health interventions in Indigenous communities
How can clinicians work with communities to implement appropriate interventions? What does effective context-driven, co-created research that respects local knowledge look like? And how can we use qua...
7 Jan 33min
Solange Baptiste, Charles Holmes, and Kenneth Ngure on sustainable HIV prevention in Africa
Controlling the HIV epidemic depends on shifting from fragmented, donor-led programmes to nationally led, integrated health systems. To accompany a new joint Series of six papers, Peter Hayward, Edito...
9 Dec 202544min
