When Science Finds a Way
Join botanist-turned-Hollywood actor Alisha Wainwright as she meets the trailblazing scientists and researchers changing the world, alongside the people who have inspired and contributed to their work. From community-led climate change solutions, to cutting edge technology that’s redefining disease, and fresh approaches to treating mental health disorders, When Science Finds a Way will show you a world of creative solutions from people at the heart of the greatest health challenges of our time. Brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. Please visit wellcome.org for more information.
Episodes
Throughout this podcast series, we've met trailblazing scientists and researchers changing the world, alongside the people who have inspired and contributed to their work.
In this final bonus episode, Julia Gillard, Chair of Wellcome, brings together three experts from the series to reflect on the main themes that have emerged and ask what challenges still lie ahead in the field ...
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the benefits of sequencing infectious disease pathogens became...
Poor mental health has always been associated with lower socio-economic status, but what if you turned the idea on its head and administered cash transfers as a mental health treatment in and of itself?...
With rising temperatures and shifting climates imperilling our crops, the food chain – from planting to consumer – is under threat. This could lead to higher food prices, poor nutrition, hunger and migration.
Alisha is in conversation w...
It may seem obvious that a lack of sleep can exacerbate poor mental health - whether a symptom,
When Danish geneticist, Professor Esk...
Vaccines are formidable tools against infectious disease. But the success of a vaccine in one part of the world doesn’t
Around the world, roughly one billion people live in informal settlements – residential areas ...
Psychosis is one of the most severe, and most stigmatised, mental health conditions. ...
What can you learn from studying 40,000 people in one city? A UK study called Born In Bradford is doing just that, and it’s a concept that could be applied around the world.
It began in 2007, tracking pregnant women, their children and families. Over the decades, the study has changed Bradford, impacting policy on education, early years development and even the environment. But it has also provided robust evidence on health and we...
As the world gets hotter and hotter, so do we - and just like crops and wildlife, we’re strugg...
In the 1970s, when a heterosexual couple divorced, courts almost always awarded child custody to t...
Since the discovery of penicillin in the early 20th century, we’ve
Join botanist-turned-Hollywood actor Alisha Wainwright as she meets the trailblazing scientists and researchers changing the world, alongside the people who have inspired and contributed to their work.<...
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