If we imagine a health system as a box, then what would it contain? And what happens if it gets shaken – by a conflict, a pandemic or even something as seemingly unrelated as structural traffic jams? Join us, as we travel from the Syrian war zone to a remote Indian community fighting addiction... with frisbees.  

For more information on Transmission, go to www.itg.be/podcast.

This episode features:

Lenka Beňová, maternal health expert, Head of the Unit of Maternal and Reproductive Health (ITM)
Bruno Marchal, health care organisation specialist, Head of the Unit of Health Systems Organisation  (ITM)
Christopher Kenyon, medical doctor and STI expert, Head of the Unit of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ITM)
Saleh Aljadeeah, pharmacist and researcher, Unit of Pharmaceutical Public Health (ITM)
Prashanth N Srinivas, medical doctor and researcher, Head of Institute of Public Health (IPH) in Bengaluru, India
Tim Devriese, journalist

To learn more about ITM's research on sustainable health systems, visit  www.itg.be/health-systems



Strategy & Creation: Onlyhumans

Creation & Production: Sonhouse 

Narrator: Lara Chedraoui

Transmission S2 - Episode 1: Don't take it for granted

Transmission is the new podcast of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. Our enlightening and intimate series shares the personal and professional experiences of researchers and physicians as they relentlessly battle diseases and fight for the health of people globally.