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Coming to you from Women Deliver 2026 in Melbourne/Naarm, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health Gavin Cleaver speaks with Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro, the new director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, about her decades of work and activism in the field and the current situation for SRHR. We also speak with Kinza Hasan, of Women Deliver, about the launch of her Feminist Health Systems Charter. We would like to acknowledge that this episode was recorded on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation and we pay our respects to their elders past, present, and emerging. The Lancet global Health in conversation with... is part of the Lancet Group podcast offering. Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Zoë Mullan, acting deputy editor Pingyue Jin, senior editors Shangrong Han, and Gavin Cleaver. Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti Visit https://www.thelancet.com/multimedia to learn more. Find the best science for better lives at thelancet.comFollow us today at...https://thelancet.bsky.social/https://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

What systems fix would unlock the biggest equity gains? Should countries target patients with TB or conduct universal interventions? What does self-reliance look like post-aid cuts? Madhukar Pai joins Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, for an in-depth discussion on TB ahead of World TB Day. Click here to read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00478-4/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-...

How can clinicians work with communities to implement appropriate interventions? What does effective context-driven, co-created research that respects local knowledge look like? And how can we use qualitative methods to build interventions from the ground up? Dr. Alejandra Paniagua-Avila joins Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, to discuss her work on advancing equity in implementation research with Indigenous populations in Guatemala, published in this month's issue. C...

Acting Senior Editor at The Lancet Global Health Gavin Cleaver speaks with Dr. Nareen Daruwalla about her latest research on the prevention of domestic violence in communities in India, published in our December issue. Dr. Daruwalla offers insights from her extensive career in violence prevention and community intervention, explains why domestic violence is a major public health concern, and reflects on the challenges and successes of implementing grassroots prevention programmes and changin...

Chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma are on the rise in many countries, including low-income and middle-income countries such as Kenya that also have a sizeable burden of tuberculosis. What does this mean for patients in terms of the affordability of potentially long-term management? How are government-run social health insurance schemes working for individuals and their families? And what might be the individual-level drivers of catastro...

Carina King and Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman outline the purpose and main findings of the new Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security and their hopes for its impact. Read the Commission: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/medical-oxygen-security?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_langlooxygen25_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linke...

Daniel Symons speaks to Dr Joe Bresee of the Task Force for Global Health on the threat posed by influenza H5N1, vaccine strategies, and strengthening systems to prepare for future epidemics and pandemics. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv

Mohamed Aden Ahmed, Deputy Head of Missions and Operations in West Darfur for MSF, speaks to Lauren Southwell about the ongoing conflict in Sudan and the subsequent effects on health care and health-care workers. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv

Zoë Mullan talks to Prof Kara Hanson of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research and Dr Michael Makanga of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership on funding for research involving collaborators in the Global North and Global South and how it can be made more equitable. Visit The Lancet Global Health at https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/home Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://ins...

Georgia Bisbas of The Lancet Global Health talks to Kathy Baisley and Ruanne Barnabas about their trials on immunobridging and HPV vaccine efficacy in Tanzania and Kenya. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00586-7/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljou...

Fio Trethewey of The Lancet Global Health talks to Clara Frick and Dr Isabelle Soerjomataram about their research on premature cancer mortality which included a population-based study looking into preventable and treatable deaths from 36 cancers worldwide. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00406-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.socia...

Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Carolina Coll and Joe Murray about their research investigating the association between maternal parenting and intimate partner violence. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00282-6/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thel...

Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Xiang Wu and Maha Aon, who recently served as guest editors for the 10th Anniversary issue of The Lancet Global Health, about successes and challenges in the field of global health. Read the Editorial from our 10th Anniversary issue: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00275-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langlo Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.so...