Mind the Gap Podcast

Malone Mukwende
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Mind the Gap Podcast is an enlightening and thought-provoking podcast that addresses the critical issue of health disparities within black and brown communities. Hosted by Malone Mukwende, a passionate advocate for healthcare equity, the show dives into thought-provoking conversations with a diverse range of experts, advocates, and individuals who have experienced these disparities firsthand. Each episode challenges the status quo, offering fresh perspectives and practical solutions to bridge the healthcare gap. Join us on this journey to health equity.

  1. 10/17/2023

    "Africa is the most genetically diverse continent in the world" - Dr. Maxine Mackintosh

    Mind the Gap Podcast, Host Malone Mukwende sits down with Maxine Mackintosh from Genomics England. Maxine is the Programme Lead for Diverse Data at Genomics England, an initiative that aims to improve the representativeness of genetic datasets and fairness of genomic insights. She is also the Co-Founder of two communities - One HealthTech, a globally distributed community supporting diversity in health innovation, and Data Science for Health Equity.

    41 min

  2. 10/09/2023

    First Aid Materials In Africa Have Pictures of White Skin - Alice Squires (Red Cross)

    This week host Malone Mukwende is joined by Alice Squires is a Training product manager at the British Red Cross. With over ten years' experience in face-to-face training, she now has responsibility for the content and delivery of first aid training courses and is the primary point of contact for colleagues when they receive questions of a clinical, regulatory, or technical nature. As part of the world's largest humanitarian organization and provider of first aid training and education, the British Red Cross is a recognized leader and standard setter globally. For the last 150 years, the British Red Cross has been helping millions of people in the UK and around the world to get the support they need when crisis strikes, putting kindness into action.

    38 min

  3. 09/24/2023

    Content Creators Can Reduce Health Inequalities - Vishaal Virani (YouTube Health)

    Host Malone Mukwende sat with Vishaal Virani who is the head of YouTube Health UK! In this conversation, we explored how YouTube can play a pivotal part in reducing health inequalities. Vishaal started his career as an NHS doctor, and subsequently transitioned into healthcare strategy consulting. He worked in strategy consulting for four years, with a particular focus on due diligence for private equity firms, and corporate strategy for hospitals and medical technology companies. He then chose to pursue a longstanding interest in leveraging digital health to meaningfully improve patient outcomes - initially as business development and client success lead at Ada Health, a venture-backed AI health technology company; and then managing digital health solutions for an FTSE 100 consumer healthcare company that owns global brands such as Durex, Nurofen and Dettol. Vishaal now works at YouTube, where he is building out a brand new Health offering to empower millions of YouTube users and NHS organisations across the UK. Vishaal is also a co-founder of Doctorpreneurs, the world’s largest community of medical innovators, governor of the Royal Free NHS Trust, guest lecturer on digital health, a contributor to NHS innovation organisations, and mentor to various health tech startups. He has also previously served as a board member of the Youth Hostels Association and as a primary school governor.

    35 min

  4. 09/21/2023

    🔥FiveXMore Vision to Improve Their Community

    FiveXMore Vision to Improve Healthcare for Black and Brown People

    4 min

  5. 09/17/2023

    "There's Acknowledgement But Its Performative" - FiveXMore

    Mind the Gap Podcast where host Malone Mukwende sits down with Clo and Tinuke from FiveXMore to discuss the organisation they have built. Five X more is an organisation committed to highlighting and changing Black maternal health outcomes in the UK. Five X More takes a four pronged approach - Lobbying the government, training health professions and students, empowering women and conducting research and reports. Founders Atinuke (Tinuke) and Clotilde (Clo) are very passionate about women's health. Tinuke is a mother and founder of Learning with Ez - specialising in diverse educational resources for children as well as Mums & Tea - a social platform aimed at connecting Black mums together. Clo is the founder of Prosperitys - a maternal well-being social enterprise which supports Black Ethnic Minority parents. Prosperitys focuses on early intervention, perinatal mental health awareness and social isolation. She is also the MVP chair at St Thomas hospital and an Expert by Experience for NHSE/I In 2020 Five x More launched the petition “Improve Maternal Mortality Rates and Health Care for Black Women in the U.K.” which gained over 187,000 signatures, leading Black maternal health to be discussed in parliament for the first time in its history. They have been named in HSJ’s ‘50 most influential people in health’ 2022 list as well as ‘Black History Makers’ by Good morning Britain, ‘Force for Change’ by British Vogue, "Woman changing the World" by the Evening Standard and ‘Future Shaper’s’ by Marie Clair. Five X More has been featured in several newspapers and media outlets speaking on Black maternal health as a means of keeping it high on the agenda, to continue to make positive changes.

    44 min

  6. 09/14/2023

    🔥Is the Health Equity Market Too Small? - Dr. James Somauroo

    This week, Malone is joined by Dr James Somauroo, cofounder and CEO of SomX, a healthcare communications and creative agency. He is also a contributor for Forbes, hosts The Healthtech Podcast and is Editor in Chief of the news brand Healthtech Pigeon, a newsletter and a podcast that rounds up the sector’s news. James is an anaesthetics and ICU doctor by background, has held roles in leadership, management and innovation at NHS England, Health Education England and the British Medical Journal and previously directed two healthtech startup accelerators. He has degrees in medicine, biomedical sciences and education and is a guest lecturer on healthtech innovation and entrepreneurship at academic institutions around the world.

    4 min

  7. 09/10/2023

    Building a Company to Tackle Health Equity - Dr. James Somauroo

    This week, Malone is joined by Dr James Somauroo, cofounder and CEO of SomX, a healthcare communications and creative agency. He is also a contributor for Forbes, hosts The Healthtech Podcast and is Editor in Chief of the news brand Healthtech Pigeon, a newsletter and a podcast that rounds up the sector’s news. James is an anaesthetics and ICU doctor by background, has held roles in leadership, management and innovation at NHS England, Health Education England and the British Medical Journal and previously directed two healthtech startup accelerators. He has degrees in medicine, biomedical sciences and education and is a guest lecturer on healthtech innovation and entrepreneurship at academic institutions around the world.

    1 hr

  8. 09/04/2023

    "Representation Creates Medicine That Saves Lives" - Dr. Khadija Owusu

    Dr Khadija Owusu is an award-winning Leader, International Speaker and Junior Doctor. She is the Founder of AKAYA, Director of Programmes at Melanin Medics, Equality and Diversity Board Member at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School, Ambassador at GUBA-Enterprise and Trustee for the charity Raising Futures Kenya.  Khadija is a change agent, a voice for thousands of Black and Ethnic minority aspiring medics, medical students and doctors as she works to tackle issues on equality, diversity, and inclusion. She also has special interests in female empowerment and global health; impacting the lives of hundreds of young girls across Ghana, Africa.  She has been a guest of Michelle Obama at the White House; won the Women in STEM Award by HRH Princess Ann. In addition to this, she is a TEDx Speaker, has spoken at various national and international conferences, is selected as a 2021 Diana Award Recipient, Top 5 UK Black Student, 2020 Rising Star in Healthcare, and has been featured on BBC, ITV, Channel 5 News and more.

    46 min
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Mind the Gap Podcast is an enlightening and thought-provoking podcast that addresses the critical issue of health disparities within black and brown communities. Hosted by Malone Mukwende, a passionate advocate for healthcare equity, the show dives into thought-provoking conversations with a diverse range of experts, advocates, and individuals who have experienced these disparities firsthand. Each episode challenges the status quo, offering fresh perspectives and practical solutions to bridge the healthcare gap. Join us on this journey to health equity.

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  • Creator
    Malone Mukwende
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  • Episodes
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