Prof Dr Bharat Pankhania
From Two Worlds, One Me by Slavenka Vukovic-Bryan
January 24, 2026 · 1h 9m · Season 1 · Episode 56
About this episode
Professor Bharat Pankhania shares his personal journey and insights on public health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today’s conversation is powerful, moving, and deeply human. My guest is Councillor Professor Bharat Pankhania — the 798th Mayor of Bath — and a leading expert in communicable disease control. Many of you will recognise him as one of the calm, trusted medical voices who helped the public make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic. But this episode goes far beyond titles. Bharat shares his journey from a childhood in Nairobi, Kenya, to arriving in the UK at fourteen — a sudden departure, a new life, a...
People in this episode
Host: Slavenka Vukovic-Bryan
Guest: Professor Bharat Pankhania
Topics covered
- communicable disease control
- COVID-19 pandemic
- personal journey
- migration
- public health
Keywords
- Bharat Pankhania
- COVID-19
- public health
- Nairobi
- migration
- communicable diseases
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Bath
Places: Nairobi, UK
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