The Lancet Voice
The Lancet Voice
Listen on Podiffy The Lancet Voice is a fortnightly podcast from the Lancet family of journals. Lancet editors and their guests unravel the stories behind the best global health, policy and clinical research of the day―and what it means for people around the world. Each episode seeks to inform, challenge, and delight listeners with stories at the crossroads of health, science, policy and current global affairs.
00:43:08
When is universal health coverage not actually universal? What are the main hurdles to universality? And how can we get health coverage to hard-to-reach population? To discuss this and more, Jessamy is joined by Prof. Joseph ...
00:23:37
Justin Koonin and Helga Fogstad, of the Coalition of Partnerships for UHC and Global Health, join Zoë Mullan to discuss their hopes and expectations for the upcoming High-Level Meetings on health in 2023.Find out more about ...
00:25:00
How can we innovate to make UHC more efficient? How does UHC need to adapt in times of crisis? Pooja Jha, Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Regional Health: Europe, is joined by Sarah Thomson, Triin Habicht, and Haja Wurie to dis...
00:44:16
How can health systems make progress towards financing UHC? What are the different approaches? And why don't voluntary contribution and out-of-pocket systems perform as well? Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Global Health, ...
30 March 2023
00:25:25
Dr. Sam Guglani, an oncologist from Cheltenham, UK, has been running Medicine Unboxed for ten sold-out years. His show examines the interface between medicine, philosophy, and the humanities through a series of speakers and p...
00:37:48
Jessamy Bagenal is joined by Dr. Eduardo J. Gomez and Pauline Mapfumo to discuss the drivers of childhood obesity, predatory industry tactics, and what steps can be taken to help bring down levels of childhood obesity.See the...
00:45:14
Georgia Bisbas and Priya Chudasama are joined by Jhumka Gupta, Zeal Desai, and Ziyu Peng to discuss "Taxes, Taboos, Tampons, (and TikTok)—the state of period poverty worldwide".See the rest of our Child & Adol...
23 February 2023
00:31:59
Can the countries of the world learn from the mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic? The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention is calling for an international treaty which could stop the next outbreak from becoming a pandem...
16 February 2023
00:35:27
Indigenous children and adolescents, regardless of where in the world they live, have worse health outcomes than other groups of children and adolescents. For our second Spotlight podcast in the Child and Adolescent Health Sp...
2 February 2023
00:46:58
Phoebe Ashley-Norman is joined by Kareem Zuhdi, Ramona Hiltensperger, and Tanaka Mukuhwa to discuss the importance of children and adolescents being able to access peer support facilities.Guests on this podcast:Kareem Zuhdi ...
19 January 2023
00:35:32
Members of The Lancet’s International Advisory Board and staff members reflect on 200 years of The Lancet and talk about what it means to them. This podcast contains reflections from:Chris MurrayJoy LawnDuc LeGiuseppe Remuz...
5 January 2023
00:20:59
Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Richard Horton looks back at two centuries of medical publishing, previews how we will be marking the journal’s 200th anniversary, and explains what the milestone means to him.Visit all of our ...
21 December 2022
00:48:14
Taissa Vila and Elisa Pucu of The Lancet Regional Health Americas are joined by Prof. Felicia Knaul to discuss the lack of gender diversity in medical leadership in Latin America, the gap in evidence on gender dimensions of...
15 December 2022
00:29:00
Louis Pasteur was involved in the creation of the first rabies vaccine in the 1880s, but today one person every ten minutes still dies from rabies, with all of the deaths concentrated in low and middle-income countries. Prof....
00:44:47
A special joint episode sees Prof. Delan Devakumar, host of the Race & Health podcast and Professor of Global Child Health at UCL, speak with Prof. Tendayi Achiume, Dr. Gideon Lasco, and Dr. Sujitha Selvarajah about what ...
29 November 2022
00:36:06
Why do half of the world's firearm deaths occur in just six countries, all in the Americas? What does consistently treating guns as a public health issue entail? Stephen Hargarten and Arturo Cervantes Trejo join Gavin to...
8 November 2022
00:38:58
What is climate litigation? How is it used to hold governments to account? What is the role of legal justice in trying to achieve climate justice? Marta Schaaf, director of the program on climate, economic and social justice ...
00:35:35
What does it mean that polio was found in wastewater in London and New York? What is “vaccine-derived” polio? What does eradication mean, and how will we achieve it? On this World Polio Day, Dr. Ananda Bandyopadhyay, depu...
00:29:50
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States and Director of NIAID, is standing down at the end of 2022. He joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss becoming a household name during the COVID-19 pa...
29 September 2022
00:31:02
Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Rheumatology Heather Van Epps joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss the journal's recent work on gender and equity, and their podcast series looking at the realities of clinical care in under-s...
15 September 2022
00:43:10
The amazing Prof. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Professor of Black Maternal Health at Tufts University School of Medicine, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss the widening mortality and morbidity gap affecting Black mothers in t...
25 August 2022
00:34:07
There hasn't been a shortage of vaccines in Bulgaria, but only around 30% of the population are vaccinated, in a country which already had the lowest life expectancy in the EU. Professor Antoniya Dimova joins Gavin and J...
9 August 2022
00:30:04
What’s happening with monkeypox in Africa? Why wasn’t monkeypox tackled when we had the chance? What will the PHEIC declaration change? Prof. Yap Boum, Epicentre Representative for Africa, the research arm of Medecins san...
00:33:21
Mandip Aujla talks to Binita Kane, co-founder of South Asian Heritage Month, about South Asian culture, history, and community, and the two new chairs of the Lancet's Group for Racial Equality discuss the group's wo...
11 July 2022
00:37:08
Nine Lancet journals are top of their categories for Impact Factor in the latest measurements. What is the value of Impact Factors? What do they capture, and what don’t they capture? Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The L...
28 June 2022
00:28:13
Poor mental health can contribute to HIV risk and affect outcomes of HIV care, and living with HIV or risk of HIV can contribute to poor mental health. Editor-in-chief of The Lancet HIV, Peter Hayward, joins Gavin and Jessamy...
15 June 2022
00:30:49
How many people have had their sense of smell affected in the long-term by COVID-19? What does it mean for them? Did some COVID-19 waves have a greater effect on sense of smell than others? How can people regain their sense o...
00:27:02
Rola Hallam joins Gavin to talk about her path from being a Syrian refugee in the UK to running CanDo, a humanitarian organisation enabling local relief efforts, and the lessons for aid in warzones and protecting healthcare f...
17 May 2022
00:48:44
How does health shape politics? How does politics shape health? Why do some diseases get international attention and funding when others don’t? What role do institutions play? Richard Horton, Eduardo Gomez, and Jeremy Shiff...
00:17:59
In 2019 there were 8.6m deaths globally among children and adolescents aged 0-20 years. Almost two decades on from The Lancet’s first ever global health series, on child survival, we've published our new Series, Optimi...
25 April 2022
00:21:59
Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center For Countering Digital Hate, joins the podcast to discuss the proliferation of misinformation across social media, how medical misinformation has become a profitable industry, why it's been...
12 April 2022
00:25:33
Prof. Gabriel Leung, Dean of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss Hong Kong's recent Omicron wave of COVID-19 and what this variant means for health systems and zero-COVID containme...
21 March 2022
00:28:05
Oksana Pyzik joins Gavin and Jessamy to talk about the short and long-term health impacts of the conflict in Ukraine, and what happens next for those forced to flee.
15 March 2022
00:34:40
Ibrahim Abubakar, Tolullah Oni, and Obinna Onwujekwe join The Lancet Voice to discuss how Nigeria's history affects the modern-day health system, and the challenges and opportunities for Nigeria in the future.Read the Co...
28 February 2022
00:38:05
Professor Samuel K. Roberts joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss racial inequities in the USA and how infectious diseases historically find and exploit the gaps in societies.You can continue the conversation with Jessamy and Ga...
14 February 2022
00:32:28
What actually is long COVID? How much do we know about what causes it? How many people do we think currently have it? Dr. Claire Steves joins Gavin and Jessamy to talk about the future of long COVID research now that we hav...
31 January 2022
00:43:16
How has our relationship with death changed over the last few decades? What is a "good death"? Dr. Richard Smith, Dr. Libby Sallnow, and Dr. M.R. Rajagopal discuss a new Lancet Commission which looks to address ques...
17 January 2022
00:36:32
Prof. Kevin Fenton, Public Health Regional Director for London and advisor to the Mayor of London, joins Gavin and Jessamy to talk about strategies for tackling low vaccination rates, Omicron in London, and living with COVID-...
20 December 2021
00:28:53
Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Richard Horton looks back at the "year of vaccines", discusses what surprised him the most about 2021, and talks about where the pandemic might go from here.
8 December 2021
00:34:01
Hilary Cottam, author of Radical Help, joins the podcast to talk about reimagining care and the welfare state to better support the health issues faced by the modern world.
30 November 2021
00:29:52
Prof. Salim Abdool Karim, director of CAPRISA and former leader of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19, describes the discovery of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant, explains what we know about it so far...
18 November 2021
00:43:46
Climate research pioneer Prof. Michael E. Mann joins the podcast to lay out the most important things that happened at COP26.Further reading:https://www.thelancet.com/countdown-health-climate
28 October 2021
00:44:42
Why are the countries which currently suffer the most direct health impacts from climate change some of the least likely to publish climate research? In the lead-up to COP26, Prof. Penny Murage of LSHTM discusses the field an...
22 October 2021
00:34:36
We hear from Prof. Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein and Alexandria Macmadu on how COVID-19 has affected the prison system in the USA, and Prof. Marie Claire Van Hout talks about the health problems faced by prisoners in sub-Saharan...
7 October 2021
00:42:10
Vaccine-rich countries are beginning programmes of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, but what's the evidence for them? What does this mean for countries which have no vaccines? Prof. Sir Richard Peto lays out the current e...
16 September 2021
00:39:13
What are the most pressing humanitarian needs in Afghanistan? How can the country preserve its health system? Former Afghanistan government public health director Dr. Mohammad Haqmal and Dr. Ayesha Ahmad highlight the main is...
2 September 2021
00:44:46
The mental health of health workers is often overlooked, but with the pandemic still raging around the world, a conversation about their wellbeing is vital. In this episode we speak to Pier Bryden, Julie Maggi, and Lisa Richa...
18 August 2021
00:33:28
Jocalyn Clark and Jessamy Bagenal of The Lancet are joined by Prof. Sarah Kaplan, Director of the Institute for Gender & the Economy, to discuss what a feminist recovery from COVID-19 might look like.
00:36:06
Tranexamic acid is proven to lower mortality rates among women who have postpartum haemorrhage, but it's still rarely used. Professors Haleema Shakur-Still and Ian Roberts of LSHTM discuss their new documentary on the su...
21 July 2021
00:25:15
Adrian Bauman and Masamitsu Kamada discuss why the Olympics don't seem to have much of an effect on physical activity levels in their host countries.
1 July 2021
00:41:29
Naomi Oreskes joins us to talk about tackling climate change in time to avoid disaster, misinformation, and scientific messaging, then Saskia Osendarp and Shweta Khandelwal discuss how COVID-19 has exacerbated the world'...
18 June 2021
00:34:44
Mandip Aujla, senior editor of The Lancet Global Health, talks with Desmond Jumbam and Lioba Hirsch about decolonising global health, how rich countries dominate the global health discussion, and what can be done.
3 June 2021
01:00:22
Chris Beyrer of Johns Hopkins University, Shannon Hader of UNAIDS, and Peter Hayward, editor-in-chief of The Lancet HIV, reflect on progress made and barriers still to be overcome four decades on from the first reported cases...
00:40:01
Bruce Biccard and Dean Gopalan discuss their work looking at the poor outcomes for COVID-19 hospital patients across Africa, the first study of its kind, and Kwame McKenzie talks about how Canada has dealt with COVID-19 and w...
6 May 2021
00:51:34
Commissioners Michael Anderson and Emma Pitchforth explain the findings of their Commission on the future of the NHS, and Jennifer Dixon of The Health Foundation discusses health and care in the UK. The Commission can be view...
00:29:04
A new article from the OpenSAFELY team analyses 17 million NHS records to show the disparities in English COVID-19 outcomes for minority ethnic groups. Rohini Mathur talks about the results, and Ben Goldacre explains the many...
27 April 2021
00:31:59
Rachel Bond of the Association of Black Cardiologists discusses the Black maternal mortality crisis in the USA, and Mishal Khan talks about reframing use of the word "hesitancy" when talking about vaccine uptake in ...
00:39:46
Rita Issa of Lancet Migration describes the effects of the pandemic on refugee and migrant health worldwide, and Tina Shahrizaila explains the enigmatic Guillain-Barré syndrome.
23 March 2021
00:38:57
Martin McKee discusses the current state of vaccine rollout in Europe and the challenges ahead, and the Director of WHO's Global TB Programme, Tereza Kasaeva, talks about how COVID-19 has stalled progress on tackling tub...
00:46:47
Samer Jabbour and Iman Nuwayhid join Gavin and Jessamy to discuss the awful milestone of the tenth anniversary of the Syrian conflict, and Angela Saini talks about the history of race science and how unscientific assumptions ...
00:42:57
Professor Sir Michael Marmot joins Jessamy and Gavin to discuss how inequality and injustice have directly contributed to poorer COVID-19 outcomes, and what has to change in society post-pandemic.
25 February 2021
00:40:47
A special episode celebrating Black History Month in the USA speaks with epidemiologist Sharrelle Barber, public health expert Kimberly Jacob Arriola, and emergency doctor Janice Blanchard about the intersection of race and h...
00:55:21
Salim Abdool Karim, head of South Africa's COVID-19 advisory committee, joins us to discuss variants, vaccination, and the national response, and Laura Spinney, author of Pale Rider, chats about the parallels between the...
28 January 2021
00:31:26
Former UK Health Secretary and current Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, Jeremy Hunt MP, talks to Gavin and Jessamy about the last twelve months in British politics and policy, and discusses his hopes for ...
14 January 2021
00:52:42
To find out the truth behind the mutation stories, Gavin and Jessamy chat with Dr. Emma Hodcroft of nextstrain, Prof. Alex Ford tells us why IBS is misdiagnosed and misunderstood, and Rachel Fleishman MD reads her Wakley Priz...
15 December 2020
00:59:14
The final episode of the year tells the story of COVID-19 through five Lancet articles, focusing on key workers, low and middle-income countries, mental health, and the lessons learned from a tumultuous year. Featuring Richar...
3 December 2020
01:00:06
Kalipso Chalkidou of Imperial College gives us an overview of the frontrunner COVID-19 vaccines, how they work, and what hurdles are left to overcome, and Natalie Shenker of Hearts Milk Bank explains the work done by the char...
6 November 2020
01:05:05
Why have COVID-19 contact tracing operations around Europe failed to avoid another round of lockdowns? Rosanna Peeling of LSHTM joins us to chat, and Melinda Buntin and Ines Hassan discuss the reasoning behind keeping schools...
29 October 2020
01:08:43
For Black History Month in the UK we speak to an inspiring Black person of the present, Kevin Fenton, Director of PHE London, and we look at the lives of Black figures of the past, with historian Stephen Bourne discussing Har...
14 October 2020
00:56:03
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, authors of new book Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal, join us to talk about the climate emergency, how it can be solved, and the forthcoming US election.
2 October 2020
00:55:58
Peter Hotez joins us to talk vaccine progress and how science needs to communicate in the USA, and philosopher of science Cailin O'Connor discusses our understanding of theories, facts, and how misinformation spreads.
21 September 2020
00:24:52
In a special episode for Peer Review Week 21-25 September, editor-in-chief of The Lancet Richard Horton joins us to discuss the past, present, and future of scientific publishing in light of COVID-19.
4 September 2020
00:41:36
In this episode we speak to Prof. Arne Akbar, President of the British Society for Immunology, about the most recent research on COVID-19 and our current understanding of the long-term effects, and Dr. Jenna Lester, founder o...
19 August 2020
00:46:31
We ask Prof. Gill Livingston how up to 40% of dementia cases can be prevented, and Dr. Saskia Osendarp tells us how COVID-19 looks set to undo two decades of progress on child malnutrition.
5 August 2020
00:33:15
This week we talk with Prof. Kenji Shibuya, Director of the King's Institute for Population Health, about mask-wearing and pandemic response in Japan, and The Lancet Psychiatry Editor-in-Chief Dr. Niall Boyce walks us th...
00:49:58
Richard Horton updates us on a leap forward in the Oxford and China vaccine progress, we talk viral transmission on public transport, and Kathleen O'Reilly explains how scientists create and test models.
8 July 2020
00:36:45
How many people have COVID-19 antibodies? What does having antibodies mean? Rosanna Peeling explains the latest, and we're joined by Ashley McMullen from the Nocturnists podcast to chat about her experiences and her new ...
24 June 2020
00:53:28
In a bumper episode of The Lancet Voice we speak with Kalipso Chalkidou about COVID-19 vaccine access for low and middle-income countries, we hear about why insulin costs so much in the US and what can be done about it, and w...
11 June 2020
00:23:38
What are cytokine storms, and how do they affect patients? Our editors speak with immunologist Scott Canna and rheumatologist Rachel Tattersall to help understand this condition.
00:26:27
The Lancet Voice chats with Holger Schünemann and Derek Chu, authors of new research on physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection, to find out the best approach to these vital virus control methods.
29 May 2020
00:34:17
Philosopher Philippe Van Parijs discusses the state's stake in its citizens' health and the expansion of the role of the state during and after the coronavirus pandemic.
21 May 2020
00:20:49
Yap Boum of Médecins Sans Frontières and Zoe Mullan, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Global Health, discuss the particular issues facing Sub-Saharan Africa.
20 May 2020
00:24:05
Does infection confer immunity? Is the virus mutating? How long could immunity last? Arne Akbar, Professor of Immunology at UCL, answers some of the big questions surrounding the pandemic.
14 May 2020
00:23:49
Another special episode of The Lancet Voice speaks with a doctor about the outbreak of Kawasaki-like disease in children following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
24 April 2020
00:23:15
Another special COVID-19 episode of The Lancet Voice looks into using the blood of recovered patients to treat serious cases. Julie Stacey speaks with Prof. Liise-Anne Pirofski of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
9 April 2020
00:29:22
How are staff being reassigned? What have their experiences been like? A special episode speaks with NHS doctors to ask about life during COVID-19 in the UK.
8 April 2020
00:17:26
A special episode speaks with Professor Hilary Pinnock to examine the current evidence and advice for patients with asthma and clinicians caring for them.
6 April 2020
00:16:39
Much of the discourse on COVID-19 has been about older people being at high risk. The Lancet Voice speaks to Professor Thomas Scharf, president of The British Society of Gerontology about how COVID-19 is affecting age discrim...
2 April 2020
00:23:05
How does misinformation start? Why is it spread? What is being done about it? What is “behavioural fatigue”? The Lancet Voice speaks with Sander van der Linden, director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory,...
26 March 2020
00:12:25
A special episode of The Lancet Voice looks into the lack of personal protective equipment, or PPE, for healthcare workers in the NHS.
25 March 2020
00:19:26
How does COVID-19 affect pregnancy? In this special episode of The Lancet Voice, Lancet editors speak to frontline staff around the world to see how approaches have evolved.
17 March 2020
00:40:30
Caroline Criado Perez discusses how cardiovascular health in women has been ignored by medicine, a doctor in Wuhan shares first-hand COVID-19 experiences, and NASA scientists explain how life on Mars might affect health on Ea...
00:41:38
In a packed pilot episode of The Lancet Voice, our EBioMedicine Editor-in-Chief, Julie Stacey, reports on how SARS changed our approach to treating and tracking coronaviruses, The Lancet's Editor-In-Chief, Richard Horton...
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