R&H Pod host Delan Devakumar sits with Touchpoint Team Lead Kadi Toure to discuss racism and its impact on health. Thank you for hosting us, PMNCH Touchpoint!

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Touchpoint is a podcast by PMNCH that explores key issues related to women’s, children’s, and adolescent health.

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This episode is a part of a mini series, featuring episodes from Global Health Lives.

Prof Naomi Priest is a lifecourse and social epidemiologist at the Australian National University. Naomi’s research focuses on understanding how social forces become embedded and embodied to influence health and health inequalities throughout life. In this episode, Naomi talks about how racism impacts child and adolescent health and school-based interventions to reduce racism. Naomi is also a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on racism and child health.

Learn more about the Commission’s work at www.raceandhealth.org/commission

Listen to GHL at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/globalhealthlives

This episode is a part of a mini series, featuring episodes from 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.

Listen to GHL at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/globalhealthlives

This episode is a part of a mini series, featuring episodes from Global Health Lives.

Mr Ananda Galappatti is a medical anthropologist and practitioner in mental health and psychosocial support in emergencies and adverse circumstances. Ananda describes his work on mental health in Sri Lanka, including during the conflict and the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. Ananda is also a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on racism and child health.

Learn more about the Commission’s work at www.raceandhealth.org/commission

Listen to GHL at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/globalhealthlives

This episode is a part of a mini series, featuring episodes from Global Health Lives.

This episode follows the story of Professor Rudzani Muloiwa, the head of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health in the University of Cape Town and the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s hospital. Rudzani describes the importance of child health, his career in the field, and growing up and living in pre- and post-Apartheid South Africa. Rudzani is also a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on racism and child health.

Learn more about the Commission’s work at www.raceandhealth.org/commission

Listen to GHL at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/globalhealthlives

This episode is a part of a mini series, featuring episodes from Global Health Lives. 

In this episode, Dr Michelle Morse talks about her work fighting for racial justice and health equity in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic. Michelle is the Chief Medical Officer of the New York City Department of Health. Michelle is also a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on racism and child health.

Listen to GHL at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/globalhealthlives

Welcome back to the Race & Health Podcast! We hope you enjoyed Series 3, our collaboration with The Lancet Voice podcast. As we gear up for Series 4, we're thrilled to introduce you to our new mini series: Global Health Lives. This series dives into the inspiring stories of individuals dedicated to global health, with a spotlight on champions of racial and health justice. Hosted by Delan Devakumar, these episodes promise to inform and inspire. Listen to GHL at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/globalhealthlives

In our final episode of Series 3, Intersectionality brings three researchers together to discuss how intersectionality can serve the health community and promote health equity. The episode explores where intersectionality comes from, why it was created, and how it can be used to address health inequities across the health community. 

Guests include Dr Brenda Hayanga, Presidential Fellow at the School of Health and Psychological Science, University of London; Dr Geordan Shannon, medical doctor and ex-academic, and founder of Stema, Unexia, Planet.Health, and Global Health Disrupted; and Dr Zara Trafford, Institute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.

The official episode transcript will be available shortly.

Humans have attempted to make meaning out of our physical differences for centuries. As this thinking evolved, the associations between disease and race grew closer—but not without political intent. This association has polluted our understanding about the relationship between race and health, leading to the continual use of outdated and harmful medical practices and perspectives in clinics around the world. In other words, the history of medical racism is one of colonialism and eugenics. Join us in this episode as we explore what this means, and how this historical evolution impacts today’s medical practice and politics.

Guests include Erica Charters, Professor of the Global History of Medicine at the University of Oxford, Carlos López Beltrán, Senior Researcher at Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Alexandre White, Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Sociology and in the Department of the History of Medicine.

Access this episode's official transcript here.

Whose knowledge is represented in our health research, policies, and practice? Who is heard, listened to and believed in our health system, and why? There are differences in not only whose perspectives are represented in society, but also what knowledge is valuable. On this episode of the Race & Health Podcast, we explore the concept of epistemic injustice: the idea that knowledge and systems of knowledge production favour the perspectives of those at the top of the social hierarchy. We will explore how epistemic injustice works, what this means for representation in research, services, and policies, and ultimately, how this relates to racism and health. 

This episode's guests include Dr Seye Abimbola, Associate Professor and Principle Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan, Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, and Dr Thirusha Naidu, Head of Clinical Psychology at King Dinuzulu Hospital and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Public Health at University of KwaZulu-Natal.