Global Health Lives

Professor Lina Madaniyazi is an associate professor in Nagasaki University, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health. Lina is an environmental epidemiologist who focuses on the health impact of air pollution and climate change.In this episode Lina talks about the impact of global heating on mortality, the wide effects of air pollution on health. She also talks her journey from Xinjiang to Beijing to Brisbane to Nagasaki and the importance of people in her life.

Dr Kumanan Rasanathan is Executive Director at the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at the World Health Organization. Kumanan talks about his work striving for health equity. He describes working on the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, work on development of the Sustainable Development Goals and frontline public health work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Nayreen Daruwalla is a clinical psychologist and, counsellor and researcher, who runs the violence against women group in the Society for Nutrition, Education & Health Action (SNEHA) in Mumbai. In this episode Nayreen describes her work helping survivors of violence against women in Dharavi, Mumbai.

Dr Renzo Guinto is medical doctor and planetary health advocate from the Philippines. In this episode Renzo talks his work in global health and the new field of planetary health, his experience in setting up two centres in Southeast Asia, and the challenges facing migrant health in the Philippines. He also discusses the issue of decolonisation, including how he is trying to address this, and the importance of being a “deep generalist.”

Dr Flavia Bustreo is Vice-Chair of Fondation Botnar, Co-Chair of The Lancet Commission on Gender-Based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People and Chair of the Governance and Ethics Committee at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). Flavia describes her early clinical work and peace activism and then all her policy work on child and adolescent health as part of the World Health Organization and the World Bank.

Professor Jaime Miranda is the Director of CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. In this episode Jaime talks about his work on non-communicable diseases, the importance of human rights, research and population health, and the recent history and the ‘multiple’ Perus, the different countries behind Peru’s national averages and beyond Lima, Peru’s capital. Having established his research career as an exemplar of research capacity building in the field of global health, his story navigates from professional challenges to personal failures, including the ‘amputation’ he felt given the sudden loss of his mother, and recently his father.

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Dr Nick Watts is a public health doctor and Chief Sustainability Officer in the NHS. In this podcast he talks about how he discovered public health, his work on climate change, including Lancet Countdown, and his plans for the NHS. He discusses how to have conversations on climate change and how to engage people on some of the most important topics of our time.