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LSHTM
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The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a world-leading centre for research, postgraduate studies and continuing education in public and global health. LSHTM is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK, is partnered with two MRC University Units in The Gambia and Uganda and was named University of the Year in the Times Higher Education Awards 2016. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.
Episodes
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Ep3 | Sexual minority men and person-centred research by Alvaro, Isaac, Po-Han and Poyao
In our final TUSHRN Episode 3, Dr Alvaro Martinez-Lacabe (Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London), Dr Poyao Huang (Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University), Dr Po-Han Lee (Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University) and Dr Isaac Yen-Hao Chu (Honorary Assistant Professor,...
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EP2 | Queer Cultures and Geopolitics between Hong Kong and Taiwan by Wen Liu and Eva Cheuk-Yin Li
Welcome to the Taiwan-UK Sex Gender Sexuality Health Research Network (TUSHRN) podcast series! In Episode 2, Dr Wen Liu (Assistant Research Professor at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) and Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li (Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK) discussed queer...
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EP1 | The Impact of AIDS pandemics on Queer Health Care by Ford Hickson and Nai-Ying Monica Ko
Welcome to the Taiwan-UK Sex Gender Sexuality Health Research Network (TUSHRN) podcast series! In Episode 1, Dr Ford Hickson (Associate Professor at Faculty of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, UK) and Prof Nai-Ying Monica Ko (Distinguished Professor at College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung...
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Episode 1 - Introducing the Forms of Care Project
Welcome to the 'Forms of Care' podcast series. In episode 1, we delve in to ideas around the language used when treating people at the end of life. For more information visit https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/forms-of-care
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Episode 2 - Turning Less Into More
Welcome to the 'Forms of Care' podcast series. In episode 2, we delve in to the concepts around end of life treatment, how is it perceived in the wider context of biomedicine? For more information visit https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/forms-of-care
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Episode 3 - Living When Death Is Near
Welcome to the 'Forms of Care' podcast series. In episode 3, we delve in to ideas about how people experience end of life care and what is important to them. For more information visit https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/forms-of-care
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Michael Lewis: LSHTM 120 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie
To celebrate LSHTM's 120th anniversary, the names of three women health innovators are being added to the frieze of our iconic building in London. We speak to Dr Michael Lewis, Assistant Professor at LSHTM, to look at the work of one of those women - Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Dr Lewis was awarded a...
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Uduak Okomo: LSHTM 120 and Florence Nightingale
To celebrate LSHTM's 120th anniversary, the names of three women health innovators are being added to the frieze of our iconic building in London. We speak to Dr Uduak Okomo from MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM to look at the work of one of those women - Florence Nightingale - and explore her impact...
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Should Kenya continue the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine away from Gavi support
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five, but researchers working in Kenya have demonstrated that the PCV10 vaccine is highly effective - and cost-effective - against the bacterium responsible. Elmien Wolvaardt spoke to Anthony Scott, Professor of Vaccine…
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Mentoring in global health leadership
Doctor and Professor Wafaa El-Sadr is the founder and director of ICAP; an international organisation that supports large-scale health programmes, education and training. Joining her are Dr Doris Naitore, ICAP’s Director of Strategies in Kenya, who has been inspired and mentored by Prof El’Sadr…
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HIV treatment as prevention in Africa
A team from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine are testing a radical new approach to HIV prevention in Southern Africa — one that focuses on treatment rather than prevention. Reported by Meera Senthilingam. Credit: SciDev.Net...
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Heidi Larsson - Day 1 of the Women Leaders in Global Health conference
Professor Heidi Larsson, Women Leaders in Global Health Conference Steering Committee Chair, reflects on Day 1 of the conference.
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Dr Agnes Binagwaho: fighting for the poor and vulnerable in Rwanda
Dr Agnes Binagwaho was Minister of Health during the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She is now the Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Global Health Equity, where support for the poor and vulnerable is at the top of the agenda. She spoke with Elmien Wolvaardt…
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Dr Soka Moses: a champion for women leaders in health
As a newly-qualified doctor, Dr Soka Moses risked his life to stay behind and help with the 2014 Ebola outbreak in LIberia. Shortly afterwards, he came to the LSHTM where he completed a Masters’ Degree in the Control of Infectious Diseases. Dr Moses spoke with Elmien Wolvaardt Ellison about his...
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Dr Soumya Swaminathan: a global role model with her feet firmly on the ground
One year after her appointment as Deputy Director-General for Programmes at the World Health Organization, Dr Soumya Swaminathan spoke to Elmien Wolvaardt Ellison about the value of women in global health.
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Xavier Prats Monné - The opposite of feminism is ignorance
Xavier Prats Monné, until recently the Director-General of Health and Food Safety in the European Commission, spoke with Elmien Wolvaardt Ellison about what – and who – is standing between women and their success in global health leadership. This podcast is part of a series to support the Womens...
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Dr Ann Aerts - supporting women leaders in global health
Dr Ann Aerts, Head of the Novartis Foundation, speaks to Elmien Wolvaardt about her passion for supporting women leaders in global health.
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Eliminating Trachoma on the Bijagós Islands
Dr Anna Last from the School discusses her pioneering work to eliminate trachoma on the Bijagós Islands, off the coast of Guinea Bissau.
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Ending Malaria in the Bijagós Islands
Professor James Logan discusses how his team are working on the Bijagós Islands, off the coast of Guinea Bissau, to find new approaches to ending the malaria on the archipelago. What they find works could then one day be applied to end the disease on a more global level.
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Clare Chandler: Bringing disciplines together to end Antimicrobial Resistance
Dr Clare Chandler is a medical anthropologist and co-Director of the LSHTM Antimicrobial Resistance Centre. She discusses the global concern over antimicrobial resistance and how researchers from a range of disciplines are coming together at the center to tackle the issue.
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Mishal Khan: The Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pakistan
Mishal Khan is assistant professor at LSHTM and working to understand the use of antibiotics in Pakistan and today's burden of resistance. Insight on the key stakeholders in this setting could help tackle the issue across South Asia.
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A new platform for pneumococcal vaccine development
Professor Brendan Wren discusses his unique platform technology that could enable cheaper production of vaccines, including the pneumococcal vaccine, and against a wider range of bacterial strains.
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Haleem Shakur: The WOMAN Trial
Haleema Shakur from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses the rationale behind the WOMAN Trial, which is investigating the use of a new agent to reduce rates of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) among women during childbirth.
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Public Health Responses in Humanitarian Crises: the need for evidence.
Dr Karl Blanchet discusses the need for better quality evidence to inform public health interventions during humanitarian crises. The evidence review he discusses in this podcast was authored by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and commissioned by Elrha’s Research for Health in...
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Alan Dangour: How human diets are impacting climate change.
Dr Alan Dangour from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses how changes in human diet, particularly the increasing consumption of meat, are affecting our environment and accelerating the release of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Sari Kovats: Increasing heatwaves and floods in the UK.
Dr Sari Kovats from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explains how climate change is changing weather patterns throughout the world, with a focus on the increasing number of heatwaves and flood events in the U.K.
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The story of the Shakespeare Hut
Listen to the story of the YMCA Shakespeare Hut, with extracts from letters written by those who worked and stayed there.
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Ailsa Grant Ferguson and Gordon McMullen discuss the Shakespeare Hut
Professor Gordon McMullan of King’s College London, academic director of Shakespeare400 and director of the London Shakespeare Centre, and Dr Ailsa Grant Ferguson of the University of Brighton, recorded in conversation about the Shakespeare Hut, July 2016. Find out more about the Shakespeare Hut...
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HIV control among adolescents
We visit a region of South Africa where HIV is a risk for many living in the population, but particularly Adolescents girls. We hear from a youth group trying to tackle the problem through greater awareness and insight among those affected and Professor Charlotte Watts from the London School of...
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Preventing HIV among the general population
Professor Richard Hayes from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses the successes in controlling the HIV epidemic to date and the challenges that remain. His current trial, known as the Population Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy (PopART) trial is trying to tackle HIV when…
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Why is a vaccine for TB such a challenge?
Dr Helen Fletcher tells Meera Senthilingam about the challenges of developing an effective vaccine against tuberculosis and the complex immunology that's standing in the way. We also hear from a patient in Cape Town, South Africa where TB rates are rampant to understand why a vaccine is so...
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A Londoner's experience of tuberculosis
54-year old Londoner Amina Scully, recently recovered from tuberculosis (TB). The disease is now common in London, a hotspot for TB, and was announced as the world's leading infectious killer in 2015. She speaks to Meera Senthilingam about her experience of TB in the city and her year-long...
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Seasonal malaria prevention
Malaria expert Dr. Paul Milligan discusses the benefits of seasonal malaria chemoprevention and how up to 80% of malaria cases can be prevented in high-risk communities. Part of the October 2015 feature - http://features.lshtm.ac.uk/project/paving-the-road-to-a-malaria-free-world
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Trialling malaria vaccines in rural Kenya
Meera Senthilingam visits Kilifi, Kenya - a trial site of the RTS,S malaria vaccine - to hear the challenges of testing vaccines in high burden communities. Part of the October 2015 feature - http://features.lshtm.ac.uk/project/paving-the-road-to-a-malaria-free-world
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Joy Lawn: Sustainable Development Goals and what next for women, children and adolescents?
Joy Lawn discusses the Sustainable Development Goals and what this means for women, children and adolescents. She also talks about the School's new free online course in maternal and child health. Visit the MARCH website to find out more - http://march.lshtm.ac.uk/
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July 2015 - Trachoma, deworming, and switching off street lights
Anna Last talks about the battle against trachoma, a leading cause of blindness. Phil Edwards explains how switching off street lights does not affect crime or safety. Calum Davey and Alex Aiken discuss their research that shows deworming programmes may not be as beneficial as once thought.
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Anna Last - are we are winning the battle against trachoma?
Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness, affecting the poorest and most marginalised in society. Anna Last discusses the history of the disease, its cultural links, and whether or not we are winning the battle against this disease.
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Phil Edwards - Does switching off street lights affect safety?
Phil Edwards discusses his latest research that shows how switching off street lighting does not lead to more car crashes or increased crime.
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Calum Davey and Alex Aiken - Are deworming programmes beneficial?
Calum Davey and Alex Aiken discuss the educational benefits of deworming programmes for school children. Have they really been as beneficial as once thought?
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June 2015 - Epigenetics, reducing violence by teachers, and HIV in homophobic countries
Andrew Prentice discusses how a mother's diet can affect their child's health. Karen Devries tells us how a new toolkit has halved violence by teachers against children in Uganda. Ford Hickson explains why homophobic countries may be set to see a rise in HIV cases.
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Ford Hickson - homophobic countries and a possible rise in HIV
Ford Hickson discusses his latest research that suggests Europe’s most homophobic countries may be paving the way for a rise in HIV cases among gay and bisexual men.
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Karen Devries - reducing violence by teachers in primary schools
Karen Devries discusses an innovative programme of activities used in Ugandan primary schools that has succeeded in reducing violence by teachers against children by 42%.
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Andrew Prentice - Does a mother's diet affect the risk of disease in her child?
Andrew Prentice discusses recent research that suggests a mother's environment before conception may affect the risk of immunity and cancer risk in her child.
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May 2015 - predicting pandemics, the impact of cold weather, and using viagra to control malaria
Erin Lafferty explores how we can predict the spread of infectious diseases. Antonio Gasparrini discusses a study that shows how cold weather kills more people than hot weather. David Baker explains how Viagra can be used to prevent malaria.
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Erin Lafferty - Can we predict pandemics?
Erin Laffertu explores hows we can predict and trace the spread of infectious diseases.
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David Baker - Using Viagra to control malaria
David Baker discusses a recent study that shows how Viagra can be used to stop the transmission of the malaria parasite.
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Antonio Gasparrini - Cold weather kills more people than hot weather
Antonio Gasparrini discusses a recent study that shows that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather.
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April 2015 - Malaria and mental health
Vikram Patel talks about being included in TIME magazine's annual list of 100 most influential people. He also discusses his career and the importance of taking mental health more seriously. Brian Greenwood discusses trial results from the most advanced malaria vaccine in development, and also...
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Brian Greenwood: RTS,S malaria vaccine trial and my career in public health
Professor Brian Greenwood talks about the results from the RTS,S vaccine trial – the most advanced malaria vaccine in development. Brian also talks about his lengthy career in this research field.
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Vikram Patel - my career in mental health and being in the TIME 100
Vikram Patel, psychiatrist and Professor of International Mental Health at the School, was among the 2015 TIME 100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Vikram talks about his career and the importance of taking mental health more seriously. Image credit: Roger Deckker…
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The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a world-leading centre for research, postgraduate studies and continuing education in public and global health. LSHTM is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK, is partnered with two MRC University Units in The Gambia and Uganda and was named University of the Year in the Times Higher Education Awards 2016. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.
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