Covid in south Asia - India and Nepal
In this podcast series, Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of The BMJ will convene experts from South Asia to discuss how the pandemic has affected the region, how measures like lock-down and vaccination have been handled, and the impact of the pandemic on the social determinants of health.
In this first podcast, we're focussing on India and Nepal, and are joined by;
Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India.
Biraj Swain, who works in global development in Asia and East Africa, is a senior media critic
and Buddha Basnyat, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Nepal.
For mo...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Covid in south Asia - India and Nepal
In this podcast series, Kamran Abassi, executive editor of The BMJ will convene experts from South Asia to discuss how the pandemic has affected the region, how measures like lock-down and vaccination have been handled, and the impact of the pandemic on the social determinants of health.
In this first podcast, we're focussing on India and Nepal, and are joined by;
Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India.
Biraj Swain, who works in global development in Asia and East Africa, is a senior media critic
and Buddha Basnyat, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Nepal.
For mo...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Covid in south Asia - India and Nepal
In this podcast series, Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of The BMJ will convene experts from South Asia to discuss how the pandemic has affected the region, how measures like lock-down and vaccination have been handled, and the impact of the pandemic on the social determinants of health.
In this first podcast, we're focussing on India and Nepal, and are joined by;
Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India.
Biraj Swain, who works in global development in Asia and East Africa, is a senior media critic
and Buddha Basnyat, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Nepal.
For mor...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 792: Transmission with Jeffrey Shaman
Jeffrey Shaman returns to TWiV to explain how epidemiologists measure SARS-CoV-2 movement among humans, including calculation of the reproductive index, secondary transmission, and what factors affect transmission. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Guest: Jeffrey Shaman Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode A guide to R (Nature) Epidemiology of three SARS-CoV-2 VOC (medRxiv) Impact of delta variant in India (medRxiv) Letters read on TWiV 792 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – The Social Lives of Giraffes...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 12, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood
First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new series on how COVID-19 may alter the scientific enterprise and they look back at how pandemics have catalyzed change throughout history.
Next, Dan Shugar, associate professor of geoscience and director of the environmental science program at the University of Calgary, talks with producer Joel Goldberg about a deadly rock and ice avalanche in northern India this year and why closely monitoring steep mountain slopes is so important for averting future catastrophes.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podig...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 15, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood
First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new series on how COVID-19 may alter the scientific enterprise and they look back at how pandemics have catalyzed change throughout history.
Next, Dan Shugar, associate professor of geoscience and director of the environmental science program at the University of Calgary, talks with producer Joel Goldberg about a deadly rock and ice avalanche in northern India this year and why closely monitoring steep mountain slopes is so important for averting future catastrophes.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
List...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 15, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood
First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new series on how COVID-19 may alter the scientific enterprise and they look back at how pandemics have catalyzed change throughout history. Next, Dan Shugar, associate professor of geoscience and director of the environmental science program at the University of Calgary, talks with producer Joel Goldberg about a deadly rock and ice avalanche in northern India this year and why closely monitoring steep mountain slopes is so important for averting future catastrophes. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 15, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood
First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new series on how COVID-19 may alter the scientific enterprise and they look back at how pandemics have catalyzed change throughout history.
Next, Dan Shugar, associate professor of geoscience and director of the environmental science program at the University of Calgary, talks with producer Joel Goldberg about a deadly rock and ice avalanche in northern India this year and why closely monitoring steep mountain slopes is so important for averting future catastrophes.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
List...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 13, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Coronapod: The variant blamed for India's catastrophic second wave
Over the past few weeks, India has been experiencing a devastating second wave of COVID-19, recording hundreds of thousands of new cases a day.Evidence is growing that a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus known as B.1.617, first detected in India in October, may be driving this wave.On this week’s Coronapod we talk about the race to learn more about B.1.617, with early results suggesting it may be more transmissible and could cause more severe disease.News: Coronavirus variants are spreading in India — what scientists know so far See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - May 14, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Coronapod: The variant blamed for India's catastrophic second wave
Over the past few weeks, India has been experiencing a devastating second wave of COVID-19, recording hundreds of thousands of new cases a day.Evidence is growing that a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus known as B.1.617, first detected in India in October, may be driving this wave.On this week’s Coronapod we talk about the race to learn more about B.1.617, with early results suggesting it may be more transmissible and could cause more severe disease.News: Coronavirus variants are spreading in India — what scientists know so far
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - May 14, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Roopa Dhatt - Getting woman into leadership positions in healthcare
This interview is part of our BMJ interview series, where we talk to the people who are changing medicine. The series thus far has been a bit male dominated - reflecting the leadership in medicine at the moment, if not the actual workforce.
One woman who's planning to change that is Roopa Dhatt, executive director of Woman in Global Health - a new grassroots organistion which is making waves with its demand for equality of representation for woman in global health decision making.In this interview, we talk to Dr Dhatt about the genesis of Woman in Global Health, and how they've managed to cement real commitment from the ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Roopa Dhatt - Getting woman into leadership positions in healthcare
This interview is part of our BMJ interview series, where we talk to the people who are changing medicine. The series thus far has been a bit male dominated - reflecting the leadership in medicine at the moment, if not the actual workforce.
One woman who's planning to change that is Roopa Dhatt, executive director of Woman in Global Health - a new grassroots organistion which is making waves with its demand for equality of representation for woman in global health decision making.
In this interview, we talk to Dr Dhatt about the genesis of Woman in Global Health, and how they've managed to cement real commitment from the...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart
First up, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board. Echo-Hawk shares what inspired her journey in public health and explains the repercussions of excluding native people from health data. This story was originally reported by Lizzie Wade, who profiled Echo-Hawk as part of Science’s “voices of the pandemic” series.
Next, host Sarah Crespi interviews Danielle Murashige, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, about her Science paper that attempts to quantify how much fuel a hea...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 15, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
