This podcast is discussing a journal article in Health Policy and Planning on "Measurement of population mental health: Evidence from a mobile phone survey in India":

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This podcast includes co-author Nazar Khalid and Journal Development and Communications Officer, Natasha Salaria.

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Measurement of population mental health: Evidence from a mobile phone survey in India

This podcast is dedicated to a journal article in Health Policy and Planning on "Impact of campaign-style delivery of routine vaccines: a quasi-experimental evaluation using routine health services data in India".

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This podcast includes co-author Emma Clarke-Deelder and is with Journal Development and Communications Officer, Natasha Salaria.
Music credit is Scott Holmes: Corporate Innovative.

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Impact of campaign-style delivery of routine vaccines using routine health services data in India

This podcast is dedicated to a journal supplement in Health Policy and Planning on Reimagining health systems for better health and social justice.

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This podcast includes authors from 3 papers in this 7 paper supplement and includes Dr Teurai Rwafa-Ponela on Organizational structure and human agency within the South African health system: a qualitative case study of health promotion [0.00-11.25],
Dr Si Thu Thein on Effects of a new health financing scheme on out-of-pocket health expenditure: findings from a longitudinal household study in Yangon, Myanmar [11.25-22.00] and Dr Bilal Iqbal Avan discussing Embedding Community-Based Newborn Care in the Ethiopian health system: lessons from a 4-year programme evaluation [22.05-34.08].

This is with Journal Development and Communications Officer, Natasha Salaria.

Music credit is Scott Holmes: Follow Your Dreams and Happy Logo 3.
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Reimagining health systems for better health and social justice

Welcome back to the Health and Policy Planning Podcast.

In this episode LSHTM’s Public Engagement Manager, Karl Byrne is joined by lead author, Pamela Adaobi Ogbozor from Enugu State University of Science and Technology to talk about her paper “The nature, drivers and equity consequences of informal payments for maternal and child health care in primary health centres in Enugu, Nigeria.”

 You can find the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad048

Let us know your thoughts! You can find us at @HPP_LSHTM on X (formerly Twitter) and on LinkedIn at "HPP Journal LSHTM" https://www.linkedin.com/in/hpp-journal-lshtm-a17544282/

This paper is published in the journal supplement in Health Policy and Planning on Health Equity: Access to services and caring for underserved populations. You can find the rest of the journal  supplement here:
https://academic.oup.com/heapol/issue/38/Supplement_2

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Informal payments for maternal and child health care in primary health centres in Enugu, Nigeria

Welcome back to the Health and Policy Planning Podcast.

In this episode LSHTM’s Public Engagement Manager, Karl Byrne is joined by lead author, Linet Okoth from LVC Health to talk about her paper “Policy and practices shaping the delivery of health services to pregnant adolescents in informal urban settlements in Kenya.”
 You can find the full paper here  https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad070

Let us know your thoughts! You can find us at @HPP_LSHTM on X (formerly Twitter) and on LinkedIn at HPP Journal LSHTM https://www.linkedin.com/in/hpp-journal-lshtm-a17544282/

This paper is published in the journal supplement in Health Policy and Planning on Health Equity: Access to services and caring for underserved populations. You can find the rest of the journal  supplement here:
https://academic.oup.com/heapol/issue/38/Supplement_2

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Shaping the delivery of health services to pregnant adolescents in Kenya

This special podcast is part of a series of podcasts relating to a joint journal supplement on Health Equity: Access to Services and Caring for Underserved Populations.

This podcast is in Spanish and features Sara Ardila Gómez (mentor) and Nikol Mayo (mentee). They discuss their experiences with the publication mentorship program that formed part of the process of writing papers for this supplement and then hone in on the paper entitled "Paper Promises: Peruvian Frontline Health Workers' Perspectives on Mental Health Policies during COVID-19."

Supplement: https://academic.oup.com/heapol/issue/38/Supplement_2

Paper: https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/38/Supplement_2/ii3/7424483

Peruvian Frontline Health Workers' Perspectives on Mental Health Policies during COVID-19

Welcome back to the Health and Policy Planning Podcast.

In this episode LSHTM’s Public Engagement Manager, Karl Byrne discusses HPP's latest Special Supplement: “Procedural fairness in health financing for universal health coverage: why, what and how”.  Karl is joined by Unni Gopinathan and Elina Dale, both from The Norwegian Institute of Public Health and co-editors of the special supplement, as well as Prof. Alex Voorhoeve of the London School of Economics and Political Science and co-author of several of the Special Supplements Papers, and Professor Petronell Kruger- previously at the University of Witwatersrand where she led the supplement’s case study from South Africa.
	
In this podcast we discuss the motivation behind the creation of the Supplement, how the papers advance our understanding of procedural fairness and some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen from the research.

You can find the full supplement here: https://academic.oup.com/heapol/issue/38/Supplement_1

Let us know your thoughts! You can find us at @HPP_LSHTM on X (formerly Twitter) and on LinkedIn at "HPP Journal LSHTM" www.linkedin.com/in/hpp-journal-lshtm-a17544282/

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Procedural fairness in health financing for universal health coverage: why, what and how

This podcast is discussing the Cost of Inaction Tool, which is a global tool to inform nutrition policy and also investment decisions on global nutrition targets.

This podcast is conducted with two guests, Senior Research Analyst Sakshi Jain based within the Health Economics Unit at Nutrition International and Robyn Bright, Director of Global Advocacy at Nutrition International. Nutrition International is a global organization headquartered in Ottawa, Canada that focuses on delivering low-cost, high-impact nutrition interventions in more than 60 countries across Africa and Asia.

Your podcast host is Natasha Salaria, the Journal Manager of Health Policy and Planning based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Music credit: Scott Holmes - Little Idea.

You can access the open access paper here: https://bit.ly/3WqMSHL

The cost of inaction: a global tool to inform nutrition policy and investment decisions

This podcast was conducted with Natasha Salaria, the Journal Manager of Health Policy and Planning, and Dr Emily McLean based on a published open access article entitled 'From political priority to service delivery: Complexities of real-life priority of abortion services in Ethiopia'.

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Emily McLean is a PhD Research Fellow at Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS), at the Department for Global Health and Primary Care and an affiliate researcher at Global Health Anthropology at the University of Bergen. She is a medical doctor by training.

Her PhD project aims to explore the ethical complexities and priority dilemmas related to the implementation of safe abortion care in Ethiopia. The goal is to produce evidence for policy makers and medical ethics training programs.

Complexities of real-life priority of abortion services in Ethiopia

This is an extended podcast based on the launch of a new supplement. The supplement is entitled: Health Systems Performance in the Political Agenda: Intersectoral Collaboration and Integrative Governance on the Road to Health in all Policies. It is a joint collaboration between Health Policy and Planning and Health Systems Global, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

This podcast is with lead authors of two papers within the supplement. These are:

•	Political dimensions of governing during COVID-19: Ideas, interests and institutions in a pandemic [Dr Fran Baum]
•	Unpacking how collaborative dynamics shape shared motivation in health policymaking: a qualitative exploration of the tobacco policy development in Zambia [Adam Silumbwe from 21:55 minutes]

You can access the open access supplement here: https://academic.oup.com/heapol/issue/39/Supplement_2.

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Health Systems Performance in the Political Agenda

This podcast was conducted with Natasha Salaria, the Journal Manager of Health Policy and Planning, and Dr Sophie Morse based on a published open access article entitled 'Political commitment and implementation: the health system response to violence against women in Mexico'.

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Sophie Morse is a Philip R. Lee Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California San Francisco. She is also a researcher on the Beyond the Pill team at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health working on access and equity in contraceptive health care.

She specializes in understanding how health providers and health facilities in the US and Latin America can identify and respond to different forms of violence against women (VAW) to prevent the associated health and social consequences. Her primary areas of interest are gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, she has worked on projects ranging from HIV prevention in Uganda to migrant women’s health and well-being in Costa Rica to postpartum access to health care for low-income women in Texas.

Political commitment and implementation: the health system response to violence against women in Mexico

This podcast was conducted with Natasha Salaria, the Journal Manager of Health Policy and Planning, alongside Dr Tim Shand and Peter Baker. This discussion was based around a Commentary published in Health Policy and Planning looking at men’s limited representation in regional and global sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policy.

Tim was lead author of Global Action on Men's Health Out of Focus publication on policy gaps on men’s sexual and reproductive health and Peter Baker is Director of Global Action on Men’s Health since it began in 2013.

You can access the paper here: 
 https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/heapol/czaf090

Music Credit: Scott Holmes - Little Idea

Out of Focus: men’s limited representation in regional and global SRH policy

This podcast was conducted with Natasha Salaria, the Journal Manager of Health Policy and Planning, and Dr Susanna Corona based on an open access article entitled ‘Protecting unaccompanied migrant youth in transit through Mexico: frontline perspectives on appropriate policy implementation.’

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Susanna is a medical doctor who graduated from the University of Milan. Her main interests are in how social adversities and/or how conditions affect children in the short and long term, especially in migration contexts. Following this interest, she has written her final degree thesis on age assessment in unaccompanied minors under the supervision of Professor Cristina Cattaneo of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Milan.

Music Credit: Scott Holmes - Little Idea

Protecting unaccompanied migrant youth in transit through Mexico: frontline perspectives

This podcast is on our Editor’s choice article in Health Policy and Planning entitled ‘Measuring implementation strength: lessons from the evaluation of public health strategies in low- and middle-income settings’, authored by James R M Hargreaves, Catherine Goodman, Calum Davey, Barbara A Willey, Bilal Iqbal Avan, and Joanna RM Armstrong Schellenberg. You can read the Editor's choice article here: http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/7/860.full?sid=a00fbb0f-20a8-4c26-9401-f5e6eaf0f8ee

The podcast is with lead author Dr James Hargreaves and Natasha Salaria, who is the Journal Communications and Development Officer for Health Policy and Planning. 
Music: 'Even When We Fall' by Philipp Weigl licensed under Creative Commons.

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Measuring implementation strength: lessons from the evaluation of public health strategies in LMIS

Does addressing gender inequalities and empowering women and girls improve health and development programme outcomes?
Article available here: http://bit.ly/2m8zM1v 

This podcast is with authors Jessica K Levy and Gary L Darmstadt as well as the Journal Communications and Development Officer, Natasha Salaria. 

Questions answered in this podcast are as follows:

1. Please describe why you chose to conduct a review on this subject and how you chose the included countries and variables or gender-related levers as you have termed this?

2.  Please describe your sector-specific findings as well as overall findings from this review?

3.  What do you feel should be the crucial next steps in terms of future research in the field? What do you recommend?

Presenter: Natasha Salaria
Speakers: Jessica K Levy and Gary L Darmstadt
Music: Philipp Weigl- Even When We Fall

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Does addressing gender inequalities and empowering women and girls improve health outcomes?

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SUPPLEMENT: Leaving no one behind: the role of gender analyses in strengthening health systems

This supplement was spearheaded by Research in Gender and Ethics: Building Stronger Health Systems (RinGs). Funded by the UK Department for International Development, RinGs is working to understand and encourage a gendered approach to the study of care-seeking; financing and contracting; governance; and human resources. 

This podcast covers:

1.	What prompted this supplement and Why is the focus on gender and health systems necessary in your opinion?
2.	What might be blocking research in this area/why is this a neglected area?
3.	What are the main messages and what can the papers from this supplement teach us?

Presenter: Natasha Salaria
Guests: Professor Sally Theobald (LSTM) and Dr Kui Muraya (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme)
Produced by Natasha Salaria
Music: 'Mother Nature' by Scott Holmes licensed under Creative Commons.

Leaving no one behind: the role of gender analysis in strengthening health systems

This podcast is with Journal Development and Communications Officer, Natasha Salaria, and Research Degree Student Shelly Makleff at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.  

This podcast is in relation to a published paper on ’Applying a social complex adaptive systems approach when evaluating implementation of a school-based intervention for intimate partner violence prevention: a case study in Mexico’ in which Shelly is the lead author. 

PAPER: https://bit.ly/3gVEEzW

Music credit: Scott Holmes - Hotshot
Image credit: International Planned Parenthood Federation / Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR)

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