
88 episodes

The Lancet Voice The Lancet
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- Health & Fitness
The Lancet Voice is a fortnightly podcast from the Lancet family of journals. Lancet editors and their guests unravel the stories behind the best global health, policy and clinical research of the day―and what it means for people around the world. Each episode seeks to inform, challenge, and delight listeners with stories at the crossroads of health, science, policy and current global affairs.
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Spotlight on Child & Adolescent Health: childhood obesity
Jessamy Bagenal is joined by Dr. Eduardo J. Gomez and Pauline Mapfumo to discuss the drivers of childhood obesity, predatory industry tactics, and what steps can be taken to help bring down levels of childhood obesity.
See the rest of our Child & Adolescent Health Spotlight content:
https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/child-adolescent-health -
Spotlight on Child & Adolescent Health: Period poverty
Georgia Bisbas and Priya Chudasama are joined by Jhumka Gupta, Zeal Desai, and Ziyu Peng to discuss "Taxes, Taboos, Tampons, (and TikTok)—the state of period poverty worldwide".
See the rest of our Child & Adolescent Health Spotlight content:
https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/child-adolescent-health -
Towards a pandemic treaty
Can the countries of the world learn from the mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic? The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention is calling for an international treaty which could stop the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic. Dame Barbara Stocking, chair of the panel, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss progress that has been made, how such a treaty could be enforced, and what needs to happen.
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Spotlight on Child & Adolescent Health: Indigenous communities
Indigenous children and adolescents, regardless of where in the world they live, have worse health outcomes than other groups of children and adolescents. For our second Spotlight podcast in the Child and Adolescent Health Spotlight, acting Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Healthy Longevity Philippa Harris is joined by Lisa Richardson, Indigenous Health Strategy Lead at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, and Yves Minani, executive director of UPARED in Burundi, to discuss health among children and adolescents in indigenous communities.
Guests on this podcast:
Lisa Richardson - @RicharLisa
Yves Minani - @MinaniYves -
Spotlight on Child & Adolescent Health: Peer support
Phoebe Ashley-Norman is joined by Kareem Zuhdi, Ramona Hiltensperger, and Tanaka Mukuhwa to discuss the importance of children and adolescents being able to access peer support facilities.
Guests on this podcast:
Kareem Zuhdi – @KareemZuhdi
Crisis textline - https://www.crisistextline.org/
Naseeha (Muslim Catered hotline) - https://naseeha.org/
Ramona Hiltensperger - @rhiltensperger
UPSIDES webinars, training manual, interviews with peer support workers etc - https://www.upsides.org/output/
UPSIDES publications - https://www.upsides.org/output/#4ScientificCommunity
UPSIDES twitter - @UpsidesProject
Tanaka Mukuhwa - @TMukuhwa
Zvandiri - https://zvandiri.org/
Zvandiri publications - https://zvandiri.org/resources/publications/
Zvandiri profile in The Lancet HIV - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(22)00225-9/fulltext -
What does The Lancet’s 200th anniversary mean?
Members of The Lancet’s International Advisory Board and staff members reflect on 200 years of The Lancet and talk about what it means to them.
This podcast contains reflections from:
Chris Murray
Joy Lawn
Duc Le
Giuseppe Remuzzi
Helena Wang
Lan-Lan Smith
Irene Agyepong
Astrid James
Jie Qiao
Onisillos Sekkides
Anthony Costello
Peter Hayward
Rita Giacaman
Samer Jabbour
Robert Beaglehole
See all of our 200th Anniversary work here:
https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200