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Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health talks to Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany and Dr Augustine Asante about Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme and how its benefits and challenges impact especially the country’s poorest. This has important lessons for other Governments across the world also seeking to understand Universal Health Coverage.

Meredith Hawkins and Nihal Thomas explain how Type 5 diabetes, which they estimate affects 25 million people worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, is now becoming more widely recognised and better understood.

Chronic respiratory diseases are on the rise in many countries, including low-income and middle-income countries such as Kenya that also have a sizeable burden of tuberculosis. Dr Stephen Mulupi and corresponding author Dr Tom Wingfield discuss the nuances of their cross-sectional survey in public health-care facilities in Meru County, Kenya.

Hasin Jahan, Country Director of WaterAid Bangladesh, speaks to Lauren Southwell about water contamination in Bangladesh, how it affects the communities that live there, and how it is exacerbated by climate events.

Zoë Mullan talks to Prof Kara Hanson of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research and Dr Michael Makanga of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership on funding for research involving collaborators in the Global North and Global South and how it can be made more equitable.

Amana Baig of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Madeline Ballard and Biziwiek Malitoni about the labour exploitation of community health worker systems.

Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Professor Rizwana Chaudhri and Professor Ian Roberts about their research investigating the association between maternal anaemia and post-partum haemorrhage.

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?

We talk about about global health conferences in high income countries, our equitable partnership declaration form project, implementation science, and what type of research we'd like to see in 2026.

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 qualitative methods to build interventions from the ground up?

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, Editor-in-chief of The Lancet HIV, and Gavin Cleaver, Senior Editor at The Lancet Global Health, are joined in conversation by Solange Baptiste, Kenneth Ngure, and Charles Holmes, who worked extensively on the Series.

Acting Senior Editor at The Lancet Global Health Gavin Cleaver speaks with Dr. Nareen Daruwalla about her latest research on the prevention of domestic violence in communities in India.

Listen to Senjuti Saha, Deputy Executive Director of the Child Health Research Foundation, describe the results of her potentially policy-changing study on the health-care burden of RSV in Bangladesh to our Editor-in-Chief, Zoë Mullan.

Carina King and Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman outline the purpose and main findings of the new Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security and their hopes for its impact.

Daniel Symons speaks to Dr Joe Bresee of the Task Force for Global Health on the threat posed by influenza H5N1, vaccine strategies, and strengthening systems to prepare for future epidemics and pandemics.

Episódio abordando saúde na Amazônia, destacando a telemedicina e tecnologias digitais como soluções para desafios de acessibilidade com o Dr Cleinaldo Costa. Discute barreiras tecnológicas, sensibilidade cultural, sustentabilidade, participação dos trabalhadores locais e inovações para melhorar o atendimento.

Mohamed Aden Ahmed, Deputy Head of Missions and Operations in West Darfur for MSF, speaks to Lauren Southwell about the ongoing conflict in Sudan and the subsequent effects on health care and health-care workers.

Prof. Bola Owolabi, Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England, speaks to Zoë Mullan about overcoming inertia, using data for action, and global health as a truly global - rather than LMIC - issue.

Liam Messin, of The Lancet Global Health, speaks to Michael Udedi and Kazione Kulisewa about implementation science and mental health in Malawi.

Georgia Bisbas of The Lancet Global Health talks to Kathy Baisley and Ruanne Barnabas about their trials on immunobridging and HPV vaccine efficacy in Tanzania and Kenya.

Lauren Southwell of The Lancet Global Health talks to Authia Gray and Kevin Ikuta about the burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in the WHO African region during 2019.

Fio Trethewey of The Lancet Global Health talks to Clara Frick and Dr Isabelle Soerjomataram about their research on premature cancer mortality which included a population-based study looking into preventable and treatable deaths from 36 cancers worldwide.

Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Carolina Coll and Joe Murray about their research investigating the association between maternal parenting and intimate partner violence.

Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Xiang Wu and Maha Aon, who recently served as guest editors for the 10th Anniversary issue of The Lancet Global Health, about successes and challenges in the field of global health.

Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Professor Simon Wigley and Dr Luke Allen about their research investigating the implementation of global non-communicable disease policy worldwide.

Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Professor Pamela Jeyaraj and Mr Stephen Knight about their research understanding the link between malnutrition and outcomes after surgery for bowel cancer across 75 countries.

Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Associate Prof Refiloe Masekela and Prof Luis Garcia-Marcos about their research investigating the control and management of asthma worldwide.

Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Dr Martha Mushi and Dr Dominique Green about their research assessing the impact of multidimensional poverty on the self-medication and non-adherence of antibiotics in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda and the links to antimicrobial resistance.

Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Kate Grabowski and Dr Joseph Kagaayi about their research investigating the HIV and STI syndemic in southern Uganda.

Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Manoj Murhekar and Prof William Moss about their research using seroprevalence to understand the impact of Measles and Rubella campaigns in India.

Mandip Aujla talks to Olusegun Alatise about colorectal cancer screening in Nigeria.

Nina Putnis talks to two of the authors of the new Series on urban design, transport, and health, Melanie Lowe and Deepti Adlakha.

Zoë Mullan talks to lead author Kara Hanson about the main findings and recommendations of the Commission on financing primary health care.

Nina Putnis talks to Rashidatu Kamara and Tom Wingfield about their new research on the social and health factors associated with adverse treatment outcomes among people with MDR-TB in Sierra Leone.

Mandip Aujla talks to Sanjib Kumar Sharma about the epidemiology of snakebite in the Terai region of Nepal.

Iman Wright talks to Leo Martinez and Heather Zar about their new research on cytomegalovirus acquisition and the risk of TB disease in childhood in South Africa.

Mandip Aujla talks to Juliet Mwanga-Amumpaire about the effectiveness of traditional healers in delivering HIV tests to adults in rural Uganda.

Mandip Aujla talks to Avram Denburg and Curt Bodkyn about their new research on access to childhood cancer medicines in the Caribbean.

Kristie Watego talks about her study in The Lancet Global Health on a new birthing service for and co-designed by First Nations Australians.

Zoë Mullan talks to the Co-Chairs of the Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health, Prof Matthew Burton and Prof Hannah Faal.

Mandip Aujla from The Lancet Global Health speaks to Shona Dalal about her study, which estimates the risk of cervical cancer among women living with HIV and provides global estimates of the proportion of women with cervical cancer living with HIV.

Mandip Aujla from The Lancet Global Health speaks to Ashish KC about his study looking at the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal.

Nina Putnis of TLGH talks to authors Peter Waiswa and Dilys Walker about their research reducing stillbirths and neonatal death in Uganda and Kenya.

Nina Putnis from The Lancet Global Health discusses resource requirements and essential services for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) with Dr David Watkins, including implications for low-income countries, the importance of political will, and what this means in the context of COVID-19.

Nina Putnis from The Lancet Global Health speaks to Dr Emma Slaymaker from the LSHTM about her research on Sexual And Reproductive Health and Rights and global changes since the first International Conference on Population and Development 25 years ago

Mandip Aujla from The Lancet Global Health speaks to Andreas Alga about his study comparing negative pressure wound therapy with standard treatment in patients with acute conflict-related extremity wounds.

The Lancet Global Health's Nina Putnis speaks to Wietse Tol about his research on reducing psychological distress in female South Sudanese refugees, and the implications of this research for refugees and displaced people worldwide.

Mandip Aujla of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Luke Allen about his geopolitical analysis of the implementation of WHO-recommended NCD policies in 151 countries.

Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Jonathan Abuga about his research on the risk factors for and causes of premature mortality in children with neurological impairments in Kilifi, Kenya.

Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Amat Bah and Andrew Prentice about their randomised-controlled trial looking at a screen-and-treat model for iron deficient pregnant women in this West African country.