The Meaning of Health Podcast

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The Meaning of Health Podcast

A podcast that explores a range of health and health-related issues that affect people in the community. We sit down with lived experience, academic, and practitioner experts to take a deep dive into many different areas of health. We are based at the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Western Australia.

FEB 19

Episode 119 - Health Education in Early Childhood with Dr Ruth Wallace

In this episode we chat with Dr Ruth Wallace, a senior lecturer in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University. Ruth is an expert in nutrition and early childhood education, which has led her to co-write and publish the “Little Aussie Bugs” series of books with her collaborator Dr Amelia Ruscoe. These innovative books are aimed at young children, typically in childcare, and help them to learn about different aspects of health and healthy behaviours. The books are designed to be dialogic, which means that an adult helps the child to become the story teller, helping children improve their literacy skills in the process. To aid in this process, Ruth and her team have produced training materials to assist early childhood educators to use the Little Aussie Bugs books to help the young children they work with. We had a great chat with Ruth about the books, as well as how her team has been working with childcare centres to use the books in their programs to help improve literacy and health literacy for children from an early age. You can find out more about Little Aussie Bugs here: https://www.ecu.edu.au/newsroom/articles/news/little-aussie-bugs-goes-to-uni And about Ruth and her work here: https://www.ecu.edu.au/schools/medical-and-health-sciences/our-staff/profiles/senior-lecturers/dr-ruth-wallace As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at: meaningofhealth@outlook.com Instagram Twitter/X Bluesky @healthmeanswhat FaceBook @MeaningofHealth

45 min
JAN 24

Episode 118 - Protecting the Rights and Needs of Children and Future Generations

Welcome back for our first episode of 2025. We bring you panel conversation from a “Breakfast by the Bay” event recorded in October 2024 at the University Club of Western Australia. The panel conversation was moderated by Linda Savage, lawyer, former member of parliament and law reform and social justice advocate. The panellists were: Kate Chaney, Independent Federal Member for Curtin Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Brett Hart, Pundukunu Aboriginal Service Amie Furlong, Government Relations and Research Advisor, Foundations for Tomorrow Jacqueline McGowan-Jones, Commissioner for Children and Young People WA A/Prof Rebecca Glauert, Director of the Australian Child and Youth Wellbeing Atlas at UWA The conversation covered a range of topics related to the rights and wellbeing of children and young people, as well future generations. These topics included how governments consider this group in government decision-making and future planning, which touched on how we could learn from some world-leading legislation enacted in Wales that deals with this issue. The conversation also covered mental health, education, and a move away from short-term thinking in policy making, and how young people can and should be more involved in policy development. Many thanks to A/Prof Paul Maginn and Clare Feenan from the UWA Public Policy Institute for hosting the event and collaborating with us once again. As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at: meaningofhealth@outlook.com Instagram Twitter/X Bluesky @healthmeanswhat FaceBook @MeaningofHealth

57 min
12/19/2024

Episode 116 - PHAA Australian Public Health Conference Part 6

Welcome to the sixth and final episode of our special series we recorded at the Public Health Association of Australia’s (PHAA) Australian Public Health Conference in Perth in September 2024 #AustPH2024. We had many guests come through our pop-up studio over the 3 day conference to chat about their career and recent work. In this episode we feature conversations with: A/Prof Hayley Christian from The Kids Research Institute Australia: https://www.thekids.org.au/contact-us/our-people/c/hayley-christian/ A/Prof Jacqueline Stephens from Flinders University: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/jacqueline.stephens A big thank you to the wonderful PHAA team, and Anise Clarke who helped arrange the logistics for us to record during the conference As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at: meaningofhealth@outlook.com Instagram Twitter/X Bluesky @healthmeanswhat FaceBook @MeaningofHealth

59 min
12/19/2024

Episode 117 - Christmas 2024

We have made it to our final episode for 2024! As is now Meaning of Health tradition, we get together for a recap of the year that was, and chat about things that went well, badly, or otherwise in 2024. Ingrid talks us through a journal article that looks at whether ChatGPT is “BS”: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 Leah talks us through Chonkus, an algae that could assist with slowing climate change: https://www.synbiobeta.com/read/meet-chonkus-the-algae-that-eats-carbon-and-sinks-like-a-rock We finish with an uplifting chat about what lies ahead in 2025, which is shaping up to be another eventful year (we predict). Thank you for your support again in 2024 and we will look forward to bringing you more interesting conversations about health in 2025! As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at: meaningofhealth@outlook.com Instagram Twitter/X Bluesky @healthmeanswhat FaceBook @MeaningofHealth

57 min
12/13/2024

Episode 115 - Learning From the Past to Tackle Climate Change and Improve Public Health with A/Prof Aditya Vyas and Dr Melandri Vlok

In this episode we are joined by: A/Prof Aditya Vyas a Public Health Physician and Researcher from the University of Canberra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityavyas15/?originalSubdomain=au and Dr Melandri Vlok a bioarchaeologist and palaeopathologis from Notre Dame University Australia: https://www.notredame.edu.au/staff/teach/teaching-at-nda/faculties-and-schools/school-of-health-sciences/fremantle/staff/dr-melandri-vlok Aditya talks us through what it is that a public health physician does and the role they have in advising health systems and governments on how to navigate challenges associated with climate change. Melandri tells us about how we can learn a lot about our current climate change challenges and public health issues by studying how ancient cultures lived, and navigated health challenges thousands of years ago. We discuss a broad range of health issues, such as diseases spread by mosquitoes, through to how modern farming practices are impacting on our environment, and also public health across the world. As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at: meaningofhealth@outlook.com Instagram or Blueksy @healthmeanswhat FaceBook @MeaningofHealth

1h 2m
12/06/2024

Episode 114 - PHAA Australian Public Health Conference Part 5

Welcome to the fifth episode of our special series we recorded at the Public Health Association of Australia’s (PHAA) Australian Public Health Conference in Perth in September 2024 #AustPH2024. We had many guests come through our pop-up studio over the 3 day conference to chat about their career and recent work. In this episode we feature conversations with: Dr Hannah Barbour from Flinders University: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/hannah.barbour Dr Lucy Butcher from the East Metropolitan Health Service: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-butcher-81aa34129/?originalSubdomain=au Dr Pam Nguyen from Deakin University: https://experts.deakin.edu.au/38832-phuong-nguyen A big thank you to the wonderful PHAA team, and Anise Clarke who helped arrange the logistics for us to record during the conference As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at: meaningofhealth@outlook.com Instagram Twitter/X Bluesky @healthmeanswhat FaceBook @MeaningofHealth

1h 8m
11/28/2024

Episode 113 - Health Research in Manitoba, Canada with A/Prof Nathan Nickel

All the way from Manitoba, Canada, Associate Professor Nathan Nickel joins us for this episode, recorded a few weeks ago during a visit to Perth, Western Australia. Nathan chats about his journey from church pastor in California, all the way through his time in the deep south, to where he is now as the Director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy at the University of Manitoba in Canada. Nathan talks about some of the research happening at his centre, the similarities between Western Australia and Manitoba with respect to both the vast geographic spread, and also the focus on the health of Indigenous populations. We also touch on methamphetamine as a drug of concern in both places, and the use of linked administrative data to conduct health research. You can read more about Nathan here: https://umanitoba.ca/medicine/faculty-staff/nathan-nickel And about the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy here: https://umanitoba.ca/manitoba-centre-for-health-policy/ As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at: meaningofhealth@outlook.com Instagram or Blueksy @healthmeanswhat FaceBook @MeaningofHealth

59 min
11/22/2024

Episode 112 - PHAA Australian Public Health Conference 2024 Part 4

Welcome to the fourth episode of our special series we recorded at the Public Health Association of Australia’s (PHAA) Australian Public Health Conference in Perth in September 2024 #AustPH2024. We had many guests come through our pop-up studio over the 3 day conference to chat about their career and recent work. In this episode we feature conversations with: Ms Hyatt Narsh from the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hyatt-narsh/?originalSubdomain=au Prof Alexandra Barratt from the University of Sydney: https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/alexandra-barratt.html Dr Sharon Campbell from the University of Tasmania: https://discover.utas.edu.au/Sharon.Campbell A big thank you to the wonderful PHAA team, and Anise Clarke who helped arrange the logistics for us to record during the conference As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at: meaningofhealth@outlook.com Instagram or Twitter/X @healthmeanswhat FaceBook @MeaningofHealth

1h 11m

A podcast that explores a range of health and health-related issues that affect people in the community. We sit down with lived experience, academic, and practitioner experts to take a deep dive into many different areas of health. We are based at the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Western Australia.

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