Global Health Lives

Ms Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. She is famous for her two best-selling books: 'Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong' and 'Superior: The Return of Race Science'. In this podcast she discusses these books and her journalism, as well as her own experiences of racism. 

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Dr Arianne Shahvisi is a Senior Lecturer in ethics in Brighton and Sussex medical school. Arianne was trained in astrophysics and then philosophy, and now works on various topics in global health. In this podcast Arianne discusses racism and xenophobia, the Global Gag rule and neglected tropical diseases.

Dr Nick Watts is a public health doctor and Chief Sustainability Officer in the NHS. In this podcast he talks about how he discovered public health, his work on climate change, including Lancet Countdown, and his plans for the NHS. He discusses how to have conversations on climate change and how to engage people on some of the most important topics of our time.

Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan is a consultant in sexual health and HIV medicine in Barts Health NHS Trust and honorary senior lecturer in Queen Mary University of London. She is a clinical doctor, researcher and advocate for sexual health and reproductive rights. In this podcast Rageshri discusses violence against women, racism and sexism in HIV care, and her own experiences of being a patient in the NHS.

Mr Dinesh Deokota is a Nepali film maker and founder of the non-governmental organisation Media for Development. In this podcast, he describes how he started making films and his engagement work on bonded labour, migration and child marriage.

Check out all Dinesh’s films on his YouTube channel.

Professor Joy Lawn is director of the MARCH centre in the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, a paediatrician and leading expert for newborn health worldwide. In this podcast, she discusses her journey developing epidemiological measurement for global newborn deaths and stillbirths, new shifts in large scale implementation and intentionally changing narratives for women in science and leadership, particularly from the global South. Joy also shares her personal journey, growing up in Uganda, working in Ghana, South Africa, in multiple African countries, the US and UK, and the recent death of her husband from a brain tumour.

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Dr Sunil Bhopal is a UK-based academic paediatrician. Prior to re-joining Newcastle University in 2020, he was Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In this podcast he discusses his work in early childhood development and promoting the best start in life, the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, and global health more broadly.

Global Health Lives is a new podcast exploring some of the most important issues in global health, but from the perspective of the people working in it. We discuss their lives, what influenced them and the challenges they face both professionally and personally.