Global Health Lives

Global Health Lives is a podcast exploring some of the most important issues in global health, but from the perspective of the people working in it. We discuss their lives, what influenced them and the challenges they face both professionally and personally.

Global Health Lives is a society podcast hosted by Delan Devakumar, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Delan Devakumar hosts Global Health Lives, a society show with 39 episodes published.

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  Episode #36

  Martin

  Aug 16, 202635 minS6

  Professor Martin McKee is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is the former chair of the European Public Health Association and President of the British Medical Association. Martin is director of research policy at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Martin is a public health physician who works on the determinants of health, particularly in a changing world. In this episode he talks about health and health systems in Eastern Europe and the former countries of the USSR, the importance of commercial determinants to health, corruption, political polarisation and his early life in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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  Episode #35

  Vasee

  Jul 12, 202635 minS6

  Dr Vasee Moorthy is a Senior Advisor in Science and Strategy at the World Health Organization (WHO). He is a medical doctor with expertise in infectious diseases and clinical trials. In this episode Vasee describes his work in malaria and malaria vaccines, and the importance of clinical trials, including WHO’s work on improving the system for conducting them.

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  Episode #34

  Lina

  Jun 14, 202632 minS6

  Professor Lina Madaniyazi is an associate professor in Nagasaki University, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health. Lina is an environmental epidemiologist who focuses on the health impact of air pollution and climate change. In this episode Lina talks about the impact of global heating on mortality, the wide effects of air pollution on health. She also talks her journey from Xinjiang to Beijing to Brisbane to Nagasaki and the importance of people in her life.

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  Episode #33

  Karen

  May 17, 202629 minS6

  Professor Karen Devries is a professor of social epidemiology at the London school of hygiene and tropical medicine. Karen uses epidemiological methods to understand and reduce violence against children, adolescents and women. In this episode we will discuss the global statistics on violence against children and women and interventions to reduce violence in schools. Karen talks about how to do this work in the correct way, taking care of participants and also the researchers.

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  Episode #32

  Nothando

  Apr 12, 202634 minS6

  <p>Professor Nothando Ngwenya is a faculty member at the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa. Nothando is a psychologist, who also has a degree in computer science and specialises in adolescent mental health.</p><p>In this episode Nothando talks about complex trauma, adolescent mental health and the problems with measurement, her childhood growing up in Johannesburg, and her own issues with fertility.</p>

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