Global Health Matters

 Global Health Matters is the monthly podcast from TDR, if you like our content then please subscribe. We embrace the fact that public health and global health are intertwined and through our podcast we hope to engage with broader topics bringing together experts from across the globe providing a platform for wider engagement.   
 
For this episode we bring you a topic that rarely reaches the top of the global health agenda, that is the subject of the health of refugees and migrants.  This podcast episode lays out the key issues for the listener and through our guests it builds an awareness to ensure this topic gets better attention in the future. 

Global Health Matters host Garry Aslanyan speaks with the following guests:  

• Eugen Ghita
  Human Rights Monitor and President, Roma Lawyers Association, Romania RomaJust  
• Reem Mussa 
  Humanitarian Advisor and Coordinator of the Forced Migration Team, Médecins Sans Frontières 

 During this podcast we hear the health experiences of Eugen Ghita, who was a migrant and he is now working as a human rights monitor on behalf of the Roma community in Europe.  Eugen identified that there is a lack of information dedicated to the refugees and many language barriers. 
 
Reem Mussa from MSF is able to give us context in relation to the policies of the different types of refugees and migrants.  Many countries do allow for access to health care regardless of the legal status of people, but not all, some may only provide for emergency healthcare.  MSF promotes the importance of a separation between border control/ immigration schemes and healthcare access as some migrants without right to remain may fear authorities or deportation and so not access healthcare for that reason. 
 
Kindly note that this podcast discusses mental health for refugees and migrants, TDR would like to refer you to WHO guidance for those seeking further support. 
 
Related episode documents, transcripts and other information can be found on our website. 

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Global Health Matters is the monthly podcast from TDR, please subscribe.  GHMs brings you topical subjects and insightful discussions with health experts from across the globe, including a focus on low-to middle-income countries.

Are you a professional looking to progress further or perhaps a global health student at the early stage of your career? There are so many routes to get into a career in global health, so this podcast episode discussion is with two career professionals sharing their knowledge of how they chose their path and giving clear guidance on ways to get the support needed to increase opportunities to make a difference in the ever pressing global health challenges.
 
Global Health Matters host Garry Aslanyan speaks with the following guests: 

• Stephanie Topp: Associate Professor, Global Health and Development, College of Public Health, James Cook University
• Renzo Guinto: Chief Planetary Health Scientist, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health and Director, Planetary and Global Health, St. Luke's Medical Center 

Stephanie Topp looks at how global health can support the next generation of thinkers and leaders, and suggests that networked capacity building and an emerging voices model is a critical example. Renzo Guinto wants to listen to different voices and challenge power structures to address the inequities that global health is trying to address.

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An important Global Health Matters podcast topic this month, discussing the need to build an awareness of the ways we interact with colleagues in the workplace to adapt our programmes to be more inclusive.  We need to talk about “the future of global health through diversity and dignity”.  Host Garry Aslanyan interviews our special guests who have a deep understanding of diversity and dignity and their application worldwide.
 
Our first guest, Marie Ba, is from Ouagadougou Partnership where she advocates for reproductive health and development across West and Central Africa.  Marie Ba questions whether diversity is just a tick-box exercise, ensuring that we break down the definition and elements that make up the term “diversity”. 

Tom Wein is based in Kenya where he leads research on dignity in development with IDinsight.  By analysing further the two concepts of diversity and dignity together, the link is formed and shows that representation is only one aspect, and that agency and equality also need to be factored in to realize dignity within diversity.  
 
Join us in this podcast episode to develop a broader understanding of the future of global health through diversity and dignity.
 
Guests are: 

• Marie Ba, Director of the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit
• Tom Wein, Director, Dignity Initiative IDinsight

Related documents, transcripts and other information can be found on our website at
The future of global health is through diversity and dignity (who.int)

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a new global awareness of the accessibility of diagnostics: we need to test to protect with equal access for all. In this episode of Global Health Matters, we answer key questions such as “how available are essential diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)?”
 
Host Garry Aslanyan interviews our special guests who have a deep understanding of diagnostics and their application worldwide. Bill Rodriguez is CEO of FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, and is also founder of his own diagnostics company, Daktari Diagnostics. Our second guest is Sikhulile Moyo who led the team that helped discover the Omicron variant in Botswana through careful cross-examination of COVID-19 tests. 
 
Join us in this podcast episode to understand the state of diagnostic testing in LMICs and how to achieve equity in access to testing in all countries.   
 
Guests are: 

·        Bill Rodriguez, CEO, FIND

·        Sikhulile Moyo, Research Laboratory Director, Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership

Related documents, transcripts and other information can be found on our website at
https://tdr.who.int/global-health-matters-podcast/test-to-protect-equal-access-to-diagnostics-for-all

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What are the differences between the various paths to a disease-free world? Why are we pursuing eradication of some diseases while for others, control or elimination is the more realistic option?
 
In this episode, host Garry Aslanyan speaks with three experts who answer these questions and more. Uche Amazigo shares lessons she learned during her tenure as the Director of the WHO African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control; David Reddy discusses the new and exciting innovations for malaria elimination; and Aidan O’Leary makes the case for pursuing worldwide eradication of polio. Join us in this discovery of what is needed to reduce or remove the risk of infectious diseases.   
 
 Guests are: 

• Uche Amazigo, CEO, Pan-African Community Initiative on Education and Health 
• David Reddy, CEO, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) 
• Aidan O’Leary, Director, Polio Eradication, WHO 

Related documents, transcripts and other information can be found on our website at
https://tdr.who.int/global-health-matters-podcast/paths-to-a-disease-free-world-control-eliminate-and-eradicate

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Episode 12
Championing health equity in South Africa

As the world commits to equitable access to medicines and vaccines, is this just on paper or a reality?  In the case of COVID-19, as of early March 2022, 74% of those in high-income countries have been fully vaccinated, compared with just 11% of people in low-income countries. Can South Africa’s experience with tackling HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 point to future solutions for other low- and middle-income countries? How has intellectual property rights affected development of vaccines across Africa? In this episode, host Garry Aslanyan speaks with the following guests:

• Fatima Hassan - Human rights lawyer, activist and founder of the Health Justice Initiative 
• Judit Rius Sanjuan - Policy Specialist, Health Technologies, Innovation and Access, UNDP
• Petro Terblanche - Managing Director, Afrigen Biologics 

Related documents, transcripts and other information can be found on our website at https://tdr.who.int/tdr/global-health-matters-podcast/championing-health-equity-in-south-africa 

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Throughout the first season of Global Health Matters, we’ve covered a range of topics including research during the COVID-19 pandemic, tackling racism within global health, science communication and implementation research. For this bonus episode, host Garry Aslanyan sat down with two of our listeners who shared their reflections on various episodes from Season 1:

•  Teresa Soop, Senior Research Advisor, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
• Mohammad Al Safadi, Senior Health Officer, Global Polio Eradication Initiative

 Related documents, transcripts and other information can be found on our website at https://tdr.who.int/global-health-matters-podcast/season-1-bonus-episode 

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What are the colonial legacies in global health? And what impact have they had on how some health and health research programmes are run in Africa? In this episode, we speak to two visionary women leaders who tell us what’s wrong in global health and give concrete steps toward more equitable and inclusive partnerships. 

Host Garry Aslanyan speaks with the following guests:

• Catherine Kyobutungi, Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center in Kenya
• Agnes Binagwaho, Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda

Related documents, transcripts and other information can be found on our website at https://tdr.who.int/global-health-matters-podcast/actions-for-decolonizing-global-health

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Increasingly, digital technologies are transforming the delivery of health services and the functioning of health systems. Many of these technologies have also presented new ways of doing research and informed rapid decision-making. In this episode, we hear how UNICEF worked with Jamaica to rapidly deploy an electronic registry solution for the COVID-19 vaccine. We also learn that the Philippine government created a huge opportunity for research by allowing open access to data from COVID-19 tests.

Host Garry Aslanyan speaks with the following guests:

•  Alvin Marcelo: Executive Director of Asia eHealth Information Network andChief Medical Information Officer of St. Luke's Medical Center in the Philippines
• Karin Källander: Senior Health Adviser and Chief of the Digital Health & Information Systems Unit, UNICEF

Related documents, transcripts and other information can be found on our website at https://tdr.who.int/global-health-matters-podcast/navigating-digital-health-waves

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The World Health Organization recently made the historic recommendation to widely use the first ever malaria vaccine, RTS,S. This recommendation was based on evidence generated from a pilot vaccine implementation programme in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi that has reached more than 800 000 children since 2019. This is an excellent example of how evidence based on implementation research tells us whether health interventions, such as vaccines, will be effective in real life, after clinical trials show its efficacy and safety. In this episode, Margaret Gyapong of the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana shares her first-hand experiences and learnings from the malaria vaccine pilot. Lee Hampton of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, also tells us how implementation research has played a key role in the success of health programmes for diseases such as yellow fever, typhoid and more.

Host Garry Aslanyan speaks with the following guests:

Margaret Gyapong: Director, Institute for Health Research at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana 

Lee Hampton: Vaccine preventable disease surveillance and vaccine safety focal point at
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Switzerland

Related documents, transcripts and other information can be found on our website at https://tdr.who.int/global-health-matters-podcast/discoveries-from-vaccine-implementation

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