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The Lancet Global Health
Zoë Mullan, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Global Health, and the journal’s authors explore their research and its impact on people’s health, health care, and health policy in this regular podcast.
70 years ago this year, a researcher at University College of the West Indies in Jamaica published a paper in The Lancet describing a case series of patients with diabetes who did not have the typical hallmarks of type 1 or type 2 disease. They were young, underweight, resistant to insulin, and did not tend to have ketoacidosis.
The condition was coined J-type diabetes, after Jamaica, and it was briefly recognised by WHO as malnutrition-related diabetes. However, WHO removed it from its official classification in 1999, because of insufficient evidence of its association with malnutrition.
In this episode of In Conversation With, Professor Meredith Hawkins and Professor Nihal Thomas explain how this “lost” condition, which they estimate affects 25 million people worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, is now becoming more widely recognised and better understood, albeit with a long way to go in terms of additional research. They also propose a new name: type 5 diabetes. Listen now to explore the fascinating history of the disorder and the urgent need for effective treatments.
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Chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma are on the rise in many countries, including low-income and middle-income countries such as Kenya that also have a sizeable burden of tuberculosis.
What does this mean for patients in terms of the affordability of potentially long-term management? How are government-run social health insurance schemes working for individuals and their families? And what might be the individual-level drivers of catastrophic levels of out-of-pocket health expenditure in this population?
Listen to first author Dr Stephen Mulupi and corresponding author Dr Tom Wingfield discuss the nuances of their cross-sectional survey in public health-care facilities in Meru County, Kenya and what they mean for government policy going forward.
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In a resource-constrained setting like Bangladesh, what proportion of a hospital's capacity is taken up with admissions for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)? How many children needing admission are turned away every year because of lack of bed space? And how many of these "denials" and subsequent deaths might be prevented by the introduction of a maternal RSV vaccine or the monoclonal antibody nirsevimab?
Listen to Senjuti Saha, Deputy Executive Director of the Child Health Research Foundation, describe the results of her fascinating and potentially policy-changing study to our Editor-in-Chief, Zoë Mullan.
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Carina King and Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman outline the purpose and main findings of the new Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security and their hopes for its impact.
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Hasin Jahan, Country Director of WaterAid Bangladesh, speaks to Lauren Southwell about water contamination in Bangladesh, how it affects the communities that live there, and how it is exacerbated by climate events.
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Daniel Symons speaks to Dr Joe Bresee of the Task Force for Global Health on the threat posed by influenza H5N1, vaccine strategies, and strengthening systems to prepare for future epidemics and pandemics.
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Episódio abordando saúde na Amazônia, destacando a telemedicina e tecnologias digitais como soluções para desafios de acessibilidade com o Dr Cleinaldo Costa. Discute barreiras tecnológicas, sensibilidade cultural, sustentabilidade, participação dos trabalhadores locais e inovações para melhorar o atendimento.
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Mohamed Aden Ahmed, Deputy Head of Missions and Operations in West Darfur for MSF, speaks to Lauren Southwell about the ongoing conflict in Sudan and the subsequent effects on health care and health-care workers.
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Prof. Bola Owolabi, Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England, speaks to Zoë Mullan about overcoming inertia, using data for action, and global health as a truly global - rather than LMIC - issue.
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Zoë Mullan talks to Prof Kara Hanson of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research and Dr Michael Makanga of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership on funding for research involving collaborators in the Global North and Global South and how it can be made more equitable.
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Liam Messin, of The Lancet Global Health, speaks to Michael Udedi and Kazione Kulisewa about implementation science and mental health in Malawi.
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Georgia Bisbas of The Lancet Global Health talks to Kathy Baisley and Ruanne Barnabas about their trials on immunobridging and HPV vaccine efficacy in Tanzania and Kenya.
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Lauren Southwell of The Lancet Global Health talks to Authia Gray and Kevin Ikuta about the burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in the WHO African region during 2019.
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Fio Trethewey of The Lancet Global Health talks to Clara Frick and Dr Isabelle Soerjomataram about their research on premature cancer mortality which included a population-based study looking into preventable and treatable deaths from 36 cancers worldwide.
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Amana Baig of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Madeleine Ballard and Biziweck Malitoni about the labour exploitation of community health worker systems.
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Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Carolina Coll and Joe Murray about their research investigating the association between maternal parenting and intimate partner violence.
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Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Professor Rizwana Chaudhri and Professor Ian Roberts about their research investigating the association between maternal anaemia and post-partum haemorrhage.
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Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Xiang Wu and Maha Aon, who recently served as guest editors for the 10th Anniversary issue of The Lancet Global Health, about successes and challenges in the field of global health.
Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health talks to Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany and Dr Augustine Asante about Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme and how its benefits and challenges impact especially the country’s poorest. This has important lessons for other Governments across the world also seeking to understand Universal Health Coverage.
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The benefits and burden of health financing in Indonesia
Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Professor Simon Wigley and Dr Luke Allen about their research investigating the implementation of global non-communicable disease policy worldwide.
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Non-communicable disease policy implementation from 2014 to 2021: a repeated cross-sectional analysis of global policy data for 194 countries
Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Professor Pamela Jeyaraj and Mr Stephen Knight about their research understanding the link between malnutrition and outcomes after surgery for bowel cancer across 75 countries.
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Impact of malnutrition on early outcomes after cancer surgery
Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Associate Prof Refiloe Masekela and Prof Luis Garcia-Marcos about their research investigating the control and management of asthma worldwide.
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Asthma management and control in children, adolescents, and adults in 25 countries: a Global Asthma Network Phase I cross-sectional study
Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Dr Martha Mushi and Dr Dominique Green about their research assessing the impact of multidimensional poverty on the self-medication and non-adherence of antibiotics in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda and the links to antimicrobial resistance.
Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Kate Grabowski and Dr Joseph Kagaayi about their research investigating the HIV and STI syndemic in southern Uganda.
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The HIV and sexually transmitted infection syndemic following mass scale-up of combination HIV interventions in two communities in southern Uganda
Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health talks to Dr Manoj Murhekar and Prof William Moss about their research using seroprevalence to understand the impact of Measles and Rubella campaigns in India.
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Evaluating the effect of measles and rubella mass vaccination campaigns on seroprevalence in India
Mandip Aujla talks to Olusegun Alatise about colorectal cancer screening in Nigeria.
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Colorectal cancer screening with fecal immunochemical testing: a community-based, cross-sectional study in average-risk individuals in Nigeria
Nina Putnis talks to two of the authors of the new Series on urban design, transport, and health, Melanie Lowe and Deepti Adlakha.
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Urban design, transport, and health
Zoë Mullan talks to lead author Kara Hanson about the main findings and recommendations of the Commission on financing primary health care.
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The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary health care: putting people at the centre
Nina Putnis talks to Rashidatu Kamara and Tom Wingfield about their new research on the social and health factors associated with adverse treatment outcomes among people with MDR-TB in Sierra Leone.
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Social and health factors associated with adverse treatment outcomes among people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Sierra Leone
Mandip Aujla talks to Sanjib Kumar Sharma about the epidemiology of snakebite in the Terai region of Nepal.
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Snakebite epidemiology in humans and domestic animals across the Terai region in Nepal
Iman Wright talks to Leo Martinez and Heather Zar about their new research on cytomegalovirus acquisition and the risk of TB disease in childhood in South Africa.
Mandip Aujla talks to Juliet Mwanga-Amumpaire about the effectiveness of traditional healers in delivering HIV tests to adults in rural Uganda.
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00438-1/fulltext
Mandip Aujla talks to Avram Denburg and Curt Bodkyn about their new research on access to childhood cancer medicines in the Caribbean.
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00287-4/fulltext
Kristie Watego talks about her study in The Lancet Global Health on a new birthing service for and co-designed by First Nations Australians.
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00061-9/fulltext
Zoë Mullan talks to the Co-Chairs of the Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health, Prof Matthew Burton and Prof Hannah Faal.
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30488-5/fulltext
Mandip Aujla from The Lancet Global Health speaks to Shona Dalal about her study, which estimates the risk of cervical cancer among women living with HIV and provides global estimates of the proportion of women with cervical cancer living with HIV.
Mandip Aujla from The Lancet Global Health speaks to Ashish KC about his study looking at the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal.
Nina Putnis of TLGH talks to authors Peter Waiswa and Dilys Walker about their research reducing stillbirths and neonatal death in Uganda and Kenya.
Nina Putnis from The Lancet Global Health discusses resource requirements and essential services for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) with Dr David Watkins, including implications for low-income countries, the importance of political will, and what this means in the context of COVID-19.
Nina Putnis from The Lancet Global Health speaks to Dr Emma Slaymaker from the LSHTM about her research on Sexual And Reproductive Health and Rights and global changes since the first International Conference on Population and Development 25 years ago
Mandip Aujla from The Lancet Global Health speaks to Andreas Alga about his study comparing negative pressure wound therapy with standard treatment in patients with acute conflict-related extremity wounds.
The Lancet Global Health's Nina Putnis speaks to Wietse Tol about his research on reducing psychological distress in female South Sudanese refugees, and the implications of this research for refugees and displaced people worldwide.
Mandip Aujla of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Luke Allen about his geopolitical analysis of the implementation of WHO-recommended NCD policies in 151 countries.
Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Jonathan Abuga about his research on the risk factors for and causes of premature mortality in children with neurological impairments in Kilifi, Kenya.
Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Amat Bah and Andrew Prentice about their randomised-controlled trial looking at a screen-and-treat model for iron deficient pregnant women in this West African country.
Anne Roca of The Lancet Global Health speaks to Ricardo Perez-Cuevas and Pablo Celhay about their article on the effects of public health insurance on the health of children in Mexico and lessons for universal health coverage.
Olaya Astudillo habla con Ricardo Perez-Cuevas y Pablo Celhay sobre su artículo sobre los efectos del seguro de salud pública en la salud de los niños en México y lecciones para la cobertura de salud universal.
Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health speaks to a team at Stanford University about the controversial Mexico City Policy and their research on its effect on abortions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Liz Bennett discusses the need to involve young people in high-level decision making with the leading youth advocates Sandro Demaio, Batool Wahdani, and Robin Ellis-Cockcroft.
On the day of the WHO Snakebite Envenoming Strategy launch, Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health interviews snakebite experts Dr Bernadette Abela-Ridder of the WHO, and Thea Litschka-Koen of the Eswatini Snakebite Foundation basedin Eswatini in Southern Africa.
Nina Putnis and Alice Zwerling (University of Ottawa, Canada) discuss the potential of a simple urine-based TB screening process for people living with TB and HIV.
Patience Afulani and Anne Roca of The Lancet Global Health discuss person-centred maternity care, why it is poor in many settings, and potential ways to move towards more respectful, responsive, and dignified maternal care.
Jean Jacques Noubiap répond aux questions du The Lancet Global Health et présente une étude sur les dyslipidémies en Afrique.
English version: Aluisio Barros joins The Lancet Global Health to discuss a study of how access to reproductive, maternal and child health interventions varies by ethnic group in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Portuguese version: Marilia Arndt Mesenburg junta-se à Lancet Global Health para discutir um artigo que estuda como o acesso a cuidados de saúde reprodutiva, materna, e infantil varia de acordo com grupos étnicos na América Latina e no Caribe.
Spanish version: María Clara Restrepo Méndez se une a Lancet Global Health para discutir un artículo que estudia cómo el acceso a servicios de salud reproductiva, materna e infantil varía segun los grupos étnicos en América Latina y el Caribe.
Nina Putnis hosts a special issue of The Lancet Global Health podcast celebrating five years since the journal's launch by interviewing editor-in-chief Zoë Mullan.
Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health talks to Comment author Lauren Cohee about the benefits of targeting malaria preventive treatment to school-age children in high transmission areas.
Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health talks to Eran Bendavid about the Millennium Villages Project and its impact on the history, and future, of global health.
Nadia Akseer and Zulfiqar Bhutta join The Lancet Global Health to discuss geospatial inequalities in women and children in Afghanistan, the topic of their article in this month's issue.
Dinesh Neupane discusses his trial assessing a community lifestyle intervention in Nepal, led by female volunteers, to reduce blood pressure.
Alexandre Delamou discusses the importance of the post-surgery period after genital fistula repair, based on the results of his study in Guinea.
Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro and Patricia Brasil talk about their recent study into an outbreak of human malaria in Brazil.
Anne Roca talks with Olakunle Alonge about his survey of the injury burden in Bangladesh.
Christiaan Monden discusses trends in twin mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, which has both the highest childhood mortality rate and the highest rate of natural twin births in the world.
Svetlana Popova explains her analysis of the global prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome.
Victoria Miller discusses the availability, affordability, and consumption of fruits and vegetables.
James Berkley and Job Mogire discuss a Kenyan trial which assesses the efficacy of daily co-trimoxazole prophylaxis for children with complicated severe acute malnutrition.
Heiko Marn and Job Mogire discuss the accuracy of the WHO haemoglobin colour scale for the diagnosis of anaemia in low-income countries.
Matthew Burton discusses a trial from Ethiopia comparing two modes of eyelid surgery for the treatment of trachomatous trichiasis.
Thomas Coates discusses results of a trial to improve physician awareness of STIs and HIV in China.
Job Mogire and author Maciej Boni discuss a modelling study that projects the best way to use artemisinin combination therapies at the population level.
Job Mogire discusses a paper on new growth standards for babies born preterm with author Jose Villar.
Jeffrey W Eaton discusses the value of mathematical modelling for HIV epidemic projections
Majid Ezzati discusses the global prevalence of vitamin A deficiency and its mortality burden in low and middle-income countries.
Joshua Vogel discusses a study looking at the use of the Robson classification to assess caesarean section trends in 21 countries.
Bernardo Lessa Horta discusses the association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age.
Global Diets: Dariush Mozaffarian discusses a systematic assessment of dietary quality across 187 countries in 1990 and 2010.
Stephane Verguet and Katherine Rolfe discuss trends in the rates of decline in under-5, maternal, tuberculosis, and HIV mortality over recent decades.
Vittal Mogasale discusses the burden of typhoid fever and its significance as a global health issue.
Romulus Breban discusses how mathematical modelling can estimate the effect of preventive and treatment interventions for hepatitis C in Egypt.
Patrick Walker discusses the estimated risk of placental infection and low birthweight attributable to Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa in 2010.
Naomi Lee and Tiffany Chao discuss the role of surgery in low and middle-income settings.
Derek Silove discusses a longitudinal study which assesses patterns of post-traumatic stress disorder in Timor Leste (formerly East Timor).
Nicolai Humphreys and Oriol Mitja discuss an unexpected major new cause of skin ulcers children.
Nicolai Humphreys is joined by Katie Greenland to discuss the effect of a behaviour-change intervention on handwashing with soap in rural India.
Frederic Piel discusses the effect of global migration on the distribution of the sickle-cell gene.
Tim Hallett discusses the mathematical modelling of HIV treatment initiation and monitoring.
Lucie Cluver discusses the effect of child-focused cash transfers on HIV risk behaviour in South African adolescents.
Prabhat Jha joins Nicolai Humphreys to discuss district level estimates of under-5 mortality in India.
Tom Solomon discusses viral CNS infections in children from a malaria-endemic area of Malawi.
Didier Pittet discusses 'the most neglected of neglected diseases': noma, linked to an Article in the July issue.