The Global Health Clinic

Around 422 million people worldwide have diabetes and 1.5 million deaths are directly attributed to diabetes each year, according to World Health Organisation. At the American Diabetes Association Scientific Meeting, in San Diego, California, Dr. Sridharan Raghavan from the University of Colorado and Dr. Lisa Staimez of Emory University debate whether diabetes is best prevented through a public health approach or through personalis...

The Global Health Clinic focuses on mental wellbeing and we look at how our brains could age better,and how climate change affects mental health. At the American Psychiatric Association 2023 meeting in San Francisco, California, Dr. Elizabeth Haase and Dr. Gary Belkin discuss their work with COP SQUARED, a global network, aiming to generate tangible policies and actions that can strengthen our ability to innovate and adapt to the c...

From the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Global Health TV looks at the relationship between nutrition and mental health. Our understanding of the impact food can have on the brain is changing, it’s becoming more apparent that the food can trigger the same neural effects as seen in addiction. Dr Ashley Gearhardt from the University of Michigan discusses this emerging field and Dr Bhagwan Bahroo, a practi...

In the Global Health Clinic today we look at healthcare under fire in the Ukraine and how to address health disparities in urology. Dr Bohdan Medvediev from the Kyiv Bone Marrow Transplantation Center, Dr Cheryl Lee from the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Serigne Magueye Gueye, Professor of Urology at the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar Senegal and Dr Harris Nagler, President of the AUA Urology Care Foundat...

Today Stephen Horn looks at the environmental impact of wildfires and the effect of extreme heat events on health. He shares the latest research from the Society of Toxicology meeting in Nashville Tennessee with Dr Marilyn Black, from the Chemical Insights Research Institute, Dr Jim Zhang, Professor of Global and Environmental Health at Duke University and Dr. Kristie Ebi Professor at the Center for Health and the Global Environmen...

Welcome to the Global Health Clinic, a podcast where we dissect complex approaches to improving health for all. Today, host Stephen Horn is looking at climate change - the single biggest health threat facing humanity. At the American Geophysical Union meeting in Chicago, Illinois we catch up with environmental engineer, Dr May Sule, Dr Katelyn O’Dell, an atmospheric scientist from George Washington University and community science ...

On today’s show, we have exclusive interviews from the American Public Health Association's 150th annual meeting in Boston, USA.  We’ll be discussing law, ethics and global health with Larry Gostin, adviser to the Biden administration, the World Health Organization and the World Bank on pandemic response and Paul Reed, US Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health discusses the path to he...

In the Global Health Clinic, we’ll be hearing from activist, academic and feminist Loretta Ross. Loretta was one of the African American women who first coined the term reproductive justice. Her activism began when she was tear-gassed at a demonstration as a first-year student at Howard University in 1970. With a 50-year history of advocacy, Ross has been a leader of many programs, marches and centers that focus on enhancing justic...

The increasing participation of African scientists and communities is changing the field of human genetics and genomics and leading to profound new insights.  We hear from Charles Rotimi, President of the American Society of Human Genetics, at their recent conference in Los Angeles, USA, to discuss why diversity in genetics is so crucial.

And Michael Bauer from the University of Arkansas and Neil Hanchard from the National Human Ge...

In this first episode, Stephen Horn looks at the intersection between transport and health and the role of space observation in helping some of the poorest communities on the planet.  Greg Winfree, Director of Texas A&M Institute discusses why traffic deaths in the US are at a 20-year high. We catch up with Toks Omishhakin, from the California State Transport Agency at the recent ITS World Congress in Los Angeles, USA, about the ch...