Welcome to the 'Forms of Care' podcast series. In episode 3, we delve in to ideas about how people experience end of life care and what is important to them.

For more information visit https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/forms-of-care

Episode 3 - Living When Death Is Near

Welcome to the 'Forms of Care' podcast series. In episode 2, we delve in to the concepts around end of life treatment, how is it perceived in the wider context of biomedicine?

For more information visit https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/forms-of-care

Episode 2 - Turning Less Into More

Welcome to the 'Forms of Care' podcast series. In episode 1, we delve in to ideas around the language used when treating people at the end of life. 

For more information visit https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/forms-of-care

Episode 1 - Introducing the Forms of Care Project

Dr Bayard Roberts discusses his work, which focuses on mental health and other non-communicable diseases in conflict-affected states.

Part of the July 2014 podcast.

Bayard Roberts - health policy research in conflict-affected areas

Cicely Marston talks about her research into anal sex amongst teenagers. What are their attitudes towards anal sex? Are there any social pressures? Has this changed over time?

Cicely Marston - Anal sex

Krishnan Bhaskaran on how obesity affects cancer risk. Cicely Marston on teenage attitudes towards anal sex. Kebede Deribe on the importance of mapping NTDs in Ethiopia.

August 2014 podcast - cancer risk, anal sex, and mapping NTDs

Professor Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, explains how he co-discovered the ebola virus in 1976, and gives his views on the current ebola epidemic and what can be done.

Peter Piot - the Ebola epidemic - past and present

Welcome to the Taiwan-UK Sex Gender Sexuality Health Research Network (TUSHRN) podcast series! In  Episode 1, Dr Ford Hickson (Associate Professor at Faculty of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, UK) and Prof Nai-Ying Monica Ko (Distinguished Professor at College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) shared their reflection on: 

- What impact the AIDS epidemic had on the place of gay people in health care;
- How the AIDS epidemic changed health care for minorities;
- What the positive things emerging from the AIDS response.

EP1 | The Impact of AIDS pandemics on Queer Health Care by Ford Hickson and Nai-Ying Monica Ko

Peter Piot gives his views on the current Ebola epidemic. Richard Stabler discusses the growing threat of antiobiotic resistance. Erinna Bowman tells us why the time is right to invest in ME/CFS research.

September 2014 - Ebola, antibiotics and ME/CFS

Erinna Bowman talks about the need for ME/CFS research, and why the School's biobank project is such an important part of this.

Erinna Bowman - investing in ME/CFS research

Welcome to the Taiwan-UK Sex Gender Sexuality Health Research Network (TUSHRN) podcast series! In Episode 2, Dr Wen Liu (Assistant Research Professor at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) and Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li (Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK) discussed queer cultures and geopolitics between Hong Kong and Taiwan.

EP2 | Queer Cultures and Geopolitics between Hong Kong and Taiwan by Wen Liu and Eva Cheuk-Yin Li

In our final TUSHRN Episode 3, Dr Alvaro Martinez-Lacabe (Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London), Dr Poyao Huang (Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University), Dr Po-Han Lee (Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University) and Dr Isaac Yen-Hao Chu (Honorary Assistant Professor, LSHTM) shared their research reflection and practices related to sexual minority men.

Ep3 | Sexual minority men and person-centred research by Alvaro, Isaac, Po-Han and Poyao

Laura Rodrigues discusses the School's work in Latin America. It's research projects, collaborations, and the progress being made. 

Laura Rodrigues - Improving Health in Latin America

Jeemon Panniyammakal from the Public Health Foundation of India, talks about the huge impact of cardio-vascular disease in India, and ways he is trying to reduce it.

Jeemon Panniyammakal - Reducing cardio-vascular disease in India

Dr Jonathan Cox talks about the use of drones in research. In particular, he discusses the Monkeybar project, where drones are being used to map the spread of a malaria parasite that was once thought to only infect monkeys.

Jon Cox - The use of drones to map the spread of malaria

Karl Blanchet talks about how the health systems of Liberia and  SIerra Leone are coping with the Ebola outbreak. Olivier Le Polain talks about his experience as a volunteer for Save the Children in Liberia, where he helped with the development of Community Care Centres.  

Karl Blanchet & Olivier Le Polain   - Ebola in West Africa

Antonio Gasparrini discusses a recent study that shows that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather.

Antonio Gasparrini - Cold weather kills more people than hot weather

Karen Devries discusses an innovative programme of activities used in Ugandan primary schools that has succeeded in reducing violence by teachers against children by 42%.

Karen Devries -  reducing violence by teachers in primary schools

Ford Hickson discusses his latest research that suggests Europe’s most homophobic countries may be paving the way for a rise in HIV cases among gay and bisexual men.

Ford Hickson - homophobic countries and a possible rise in HIV

Calum Davey and Alex Aiken discuss the educational benefits of deworming programmes for school children. Have they really been as beneficial as once thought?

Calum Davey and Alex Aiken - Are deworming programmes beneficial?

We visit a region of South Africa where HIV is a risk for many living in the population, but particularly Adolescents girls. We hear from a youth group trying to tackle the problem through greater awareness and insight among those affected and Professor Charlotte Watts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explains why adolescent girls are at greater risk of the infection and how her team are developing interventions to reduce this risk. Image: © 2012 Benjamin Soro, Courtesy of Photoshare

HIV control among adolescents

Listen to the story of the YMCA Shakespeare Hut, with extracts from letters written by those who worked and stayed there.

The story of the Shakespeare Hut

Dr Sari Kovats from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explains how climate change is changing weather patterns throughout the world, with a focus on the increasing number of heatwaves and flood events in the U.K.

Sari Kovats: Increasing heatwaves and floods in the UK.

Dr Alan Dangour from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses how changes in human diet, particularly the increasing consumption of meat, are affecting our environment and accelerating the release of greenhouse gas emissions.

Alan Dangour: How human diets are impacting climate change.

Dr Karl Blanchet discusses the need for better quality evidence to inform public health interventions during humanitarian crises.

The evidence review he discusses in this podcast was authored by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and commissioned by Elrha’s Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises Programme (R2HC), which is funded by DFID and the Wellcome Trust. 

Image credit: UNHCR / Olivier Laban-Mattei

Public Health Responses in Humanitarian Crises: the need for evidence.

Haleema Shakur from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses the rationale behind the WOMAN Trial, which is investigating the use of a new agent to reduce rates of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) among women during childbirth.

Haleem Shakur: The WOMAN Trial

Mishal Khan is assistant professor at LSHTM and working to understand the use of antibiotics in Pakistan and today's burden of resistance. Insight on the key stakeholders in this setting could help tackle the issue across South Asia.

Mishal Khan: The Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pakistan

Professor James Logan discusses how his team are working on the Bijagós Islands, off the coast of Guinea Bissau, to find new approaches to ending the malaria on the archipelago. What they find works could then one day be applied to end the disease on a more global level.

Ending Malaria in the Bijagós Islands

Xavier Prats Monné, until recently the Director-General of Health and Food Safety in the European Commission, spoke with Elmien Wolvaardt Ellison about what – and who – is standing between women and their success in global health leadership.

This podcast is part of a series to support the Womens Leaders in Global Health conference 2018 at LSHTM

Elmien Wolvaardt Ellison's Album

Xavier Prats Monné - The opposite of feminism is ignorance

Dr Agnes Binagwaho was Minister of Health during the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She is now the Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Global Health Equity, where support for the poor and vulnerable is at the top of the agenda. She spoke with Elmien Wolvaardt Ellison about the transformation of the Rwandan health service, her plans for the next Women Leaders in Global Health Conference and the childhood experience that set her on this path to excellence in global health.

Dr Agnes Binagwaho: fighting for the poor and vulnerable in Rwanda

Professor Heidi Larsson, Women Leaders in Global Health Conference Steering Committee Chair, reflects on Day 1 of the conference.

Heidi Larsson - Day 1 of the Women Leaders in Global Health conference

A team from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine  are testing a radical new approach to HIV prevention in Southern Africa — one that focuses on treatment rather than prevention. 
Reported by Meera Senthilingam.  Credit: SciDev.Net
https://www.scidev.net/global/hiv-aids/multimedia/hiv-treatment-as-prevention-in-africa.html

for more on the PopART project see -https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/popart

HIV treatment as prevention in Africa

Doctor and Professor Wafaa El-Sadr is the founder and director of ICAP; an international organisation that supports large-scale health programmes, education and training. Joining her are Dr Doris Naitore, ICAP’s Director of Strategies in Kenya, who has been inspired and mentored by Prof El’Sadr for many years, and student Ashley Grey – a very recent mentee.

Elmien Wolvaardt Ellison caught up with them on Day 1 of the conference to discuss mentorship.

Mentoring in global health leadership

Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five, but researchers working in Kenya have demonstrated that the PCV10 vaccine is highly effective - and cost-effective - against the bacterium responsible. Elmien Wolvaardt spoke to Anthony Scott, Professor of Vaccine Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, to find out more

Should Kenya continue the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine away from Gavi support

To celebrate LSHTM's 120th anniversary, the names of  three women health innovators are being added to the frieze of our iconic building in London. We speak to Dr Uduak Okomo from MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM to look at the work of one of those women - Florence Nightingale - and explore her impact today. Find out more at https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/120

Uduak Okomo: LSHTM 120 and Florence Nightingale

To celebrate LSHTM's 120th anniversary, the names of three women health innovators are being added to the frieze of our iconic building in London. We speak to Dr Michael Lewis, Assistant Professor at LSHTM, to look at the work of one of those women - Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Dr Lewis was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship in 2014. 
Find out more at www.lshtm.ac.uk/120

Michael Lewis: LSHTM 120 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie

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