Deonandia Podcast

Amol Gill and Matthew Dawkins discuss Ebola via a fake interview with a fictional expert, Max Lord.

Mar 19, 2016 — The Health Sciences Students Association of the University of Ottawa invited Dr Deonandan to say a few words about career planning. Here is the raw audio of that presentation.

Feb 7, 2016 — Sometime last year I sat down with two of my favourite young Epidemiologists, Kahina Abdesselam and Samuel Ileka-Priouzeau, to talk about a variety of issues around Epidemiology and health sciences education. The audio quality is poor, since it was recorded in the sun room on the roof of my condo. It … Continue reading How to Teach Health Sciences – Interview with Kahina Abdesselam and Sam Ileka-Priouzeau →

On Jan 24, 2016, I met up with some former students who are now pursuing graduate work in Vancouver. Priscilla Karnabi and Rami El-Sayegh sat down with me at a very loud coffee shop to tell me about their work and their thoughts about the future of Epidemiology, public health, and health sciences in general. … Continue reading Epidemiology Graduate Work – Interview with Priscilla Karnabi and Rami El-Sayegh →

Nov 8, 2015 — My presentation at the Global Health Students and Young Professional Summit in Montreal. I served on the career panel. I didn’t have any slides, but I think the audio is sufficient!

Oct 13, 2015 – The inaugural podcast of the IJHS journal, which I founded and presently advise, features myself and Stephen Kutcher discussing the present Canadian federal election through the lens of health scientists. The episode is also available on The RISS-IJHS website (and their podcast feed), as well as on Youtube.

July 2, 2015 — Chatting once more with public health expert Patrick Saunders-Hastings.  This time we go over three studies that have been in the news lately, everything from whether breastfeeding makes smarter babies to whether your horoscope can predict your health. Oh and something about homeopathy.  Here are the studies we talked about: “An … Continue reading Breastfeeding, Homeopathy, and Astrology — part 2 of my interview with Patrick Saunders-Hastings →

July 2, 2015 — A few days ago, the state of California signed into law bill SB-277, which makes it mandatory for children attending public school to be vaccinated against certain diseases. To talk about this event, and related topics in vaccination research, I spoke to public health expert Patrick Saunders-Hastings.

June 2, 2015 – Greetings from Ahmedabad, India, where I am one of the instructors at the Indian Institute of Technology (Gandhinagar) Summer Institute on Global Health & Development. As part of our program, we have group discussions on a variety of topics, usually driven by published papers. One such discussion was based upon two … Continue reading Globalization and the Indian Middle Class →

May 5, 2015 — This is the first of 7 guest podcasts produced by the graduate students of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences. In today’s episode, Lynne Jrade, Andréanne Chaumont,  Jennifer Kathleen Cano, and Katrina MacFarlane discuss a paper titled, “The uncanny return of the race concept,” which was published in 2014 in Frontiers in Human … Continue reading The Uncanny Return of the Race Concept →