Roe v. Wade and Black maternal mortality in the USA
The amazing Prof. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Professor of Black Maternal Health at Tufts University School of Medicine, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss the widening mortality and morbidity gap aff...
15 Sep 202243min
Low COVID-19 vaccination rates in Bulgaria
There hasn't been a shortage of vaccines in Bulgaria, but only around 30% of the population are vaccinated, in a country which already had the lowest life expectancy in the EU. Professor Antoniya Dimo...
25 Aug 202234min
Monkeypox: an African perspective
What's happening with monkeypox in Africa? Why wasn't monkeypox tackled when we had the chance? What will the PHEIC declaration change? Prof. Yap Boum, Epicentre Representative for Africa, the researc...
9 Aug 202230min
Marking South Asian Heritage Month and discussing GRacE
Mandip Aujla talks to Binita Kane, co-founder of South Asian Heritage Month, about South Asian culture, history, and community, and the two new chairs of the Lancet's Group for Racial Equality discuss...
26 Juli 202233min
Measuring impact
Nine Lancet journals are top of their categories for Impact Factor in the latest measurements. What is the value of Impact Factors? What do they capture, and what don’t they capture? Richard Horton, e...
11 Juli 202237min
Mental health and HIV
Poor mental health can contribute to HIV risk and affect outcomes of HIV care, and living with HIV or risk of HIV can contribute to poor mental health. Editor-in-chief of The Lancet HIV, Peter Hayward...
28 Juni 202228min
Smell disorders and COVID-19
How many people have had their sense of smell affected in the long-term by COVID-19? What does it mean for them? Did some COVID-19 waves have a greater effect on sense of smell than others? How can pe...
15 Juni 202230min
Syria and enabling local humanitarian efforts in warzones
Rola Hallam joins Gavin to talk about her path from being a Syrian refugee in the UK to running CanDo, a humanitarian organisation enabling local relief efforts, and the lessons for aid in warzones an...
30 Maj 202227min
