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Cliff Mann, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, discusses how the college and the HEE are going to tackle the five major challenges in emergency medicine.

Solving the crisis in emergency medicine

Traditionally, humanitarian workers and development specialists were seen as inhabiting two different worlds, but one expert calls for some joined up thinking to help the people of fragile states. 

Bridging Humanitarian Aid and Development

In this audio report, we hear about the future of this mountainous area of India where people and wildlife coexist. 

http://www.scidev.net/global/biodiversity/multimedia/the-western-ghats-biodiversity-versus-development.html

The Western Ghats: biodiversity versus development

In this first podcast from the journal Medical Humanities, editor Deborah Bowman introduces members of her new editorial team: editor of The Screening Room, Khalid Ali, and editor of The Reading Room, Georgia Belam. Together they discusses the vision for the journal. 

It is an exciting time for Medical Humanities, and the creation of The Reading Room and The Screening Room represent the first stage in a process of developing and refreshing the journal, its blog and social media. 

You can read some of the contributions we have already received for The Screening Room on the Medical Humanities blog: http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/. Watch out for more posts in the coming months. The first copy of the journal to feature The Reading Room and The Screening Room will be the December 2014 issue. 

The sections in the journal will be more editorially-led and include commissioned essays from scholars, writers and producers. You'll be able to read long-form and thematic reviews, as well as analyses and empirical research. If you would like to contribute do get in touch: http://goo.gl/Q3YJ5I

For now, tune in and enjoy the podcast. Future podcasts will include a discussion of the visual arts in healthcare settings and a programme broadcast from the Association of Medical Humanities conference - The Art of Compassion: http://goo.gl/ifJ5my.

We hope you'll want to subscribe to the podcasts so as not to miss any of them. We would also love to hear from you if you've got an idea for a subject you'd like us to cover in a future podcast. Email mheditor@bmj.com. 

Welcome to Medical Humanities

In this podcast, Rowan Douglas of Willis Group insurers, assesses his industry’s response to extreme weather events.

http://www.scidev.net/global/climate-change/multimedia/q-a-climate-change-and-assessing-financial-risk.html

Q&A: Climate change and assessing financial risk

In this podcast, Anders Ladekarl of the Danish Red Cross says new methods are needed to explain climate change.

http://www.scidev.net/global/communication/multimedia/q-a-moving-beyond-climate-doomsday-narratives.html

Q&A: Moving beyond climate doomsday narratives

In this podcast, experts explain why higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may worsen malnutrition.

http://www.scidev.net/global/nutrition/multimedia/climate-change-may-increase-hidden-hunger.html

Climate change may increase ‘hidden hunger’

Lucia Grenna heads a World Bank unit that specialises in climate change-related communication. In 2011, she set up a communication initiative called Connect4Climate, which has grown into a major global partnership of organisations and individuals committed to climate change action. Her task, she says, is “to listen to and to engage unusual audiences” and to make people realise that the term “climate change’’ in itself does not have a message.

http://www.scidev.net/global/communication/multimedia/q-a-lucia-grenna-and-her-connect4climate-initiative.html

Q&A: Lucia Grenna and her Connect4Climate initiative

In lead to December’s 20th UN Conference of Parties on climate change, scientists and policymakers are reflecting on the future of climate science. Many are questioning whether the existing mechanisms that feed scientific evidence into international politics are working well enough.

In this interview Ilan Kelman argues that, despite its important work, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with its consensus-based approach, is no longer suited to the new challenges posed by climate change.

http://www.scidev.net/global/climate-change/multimedia/climate-science-beyond-the-ipcc.html


What’s next for climate science beyond the IPCC?

SciDev.Net podcasts look at key global development issues and the ways in which science can have a positive impact on equitable and sustainable development and poverty reduction. 