Ben talks with The Stitch about the critical importance of communication and the complexity of working in the Tshuapa Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, considered the global epicentre of Monkeypox transmission.

Issue 1 - Ben Monroe

Addressing gender gaps in health means promoting change that accounts for social, structural and legal inequities say @bschriv from @MEASURE_Evaluation & @AE_Yamin from @HarvardChanSPH and @GeorgetownLaw. Hear the whole interview and more at #TheStitch http://bit.ly/2sSMZjs from @gocommonthread

Issue 2: Equitable Health: More than Just a Nudge Away

Issue 6 - Climate Change Needs Behaviour Change

A talk with Johanna Skilling from Burson Cohn & Wolfe on AI, empathy and the future of behaviour change. 
Music was, "Summer Days" and “Machinery" both by Kai Engel, and available at the Free Music Archive

Issue 8: Engineering Empathy in the Age of AI

Geju @ TGOB The Seekers Of Light / ADE / 20.10.2019

Dr Jonathan Quick, author of 'The End of Epidemics' talked to Common Thread's Mike Coleman about his vast experiences in global health, his views on the importance of trust and understanding individual behaviour in an epidemic. 

In this new format, Sherine Guirguis Co-Director of Common Thread, joins Mike as they discuss Jono's views and  their own experiences.

People, Pandemics and Present Bias - Issue 10 of The Stitch

"The Covid-19 pandemic has for some people opened eyes to the fact that health is not driven just by biology, but it's also driven by the social environment in which we all find ourselves. Gender is a major part of that social environment." Mike and Sherine, Co-Directors of Common Thread speak to Sarah Hawkes, a Professor of Global Public Health at UCL, and co-founder of Global Health 50/50, set up to promote gender equality in global public health, about the impact of Covid on gender.

Gender and Covid: Counting the Uncounted

Behavioural design for public health.


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