Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 4 - How to transform global health institutions born of colonial eras
Leaders from academic and funding organisations discuss the transformative change required to overcome extractive and inequitable research practices in global health, and the need for examining power and privilege within traditional research institutions.
Our panel
Samuel Oti, senior program specialist, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, and member of the Global Health Decolonization Movement in Africa (GHDM-Africa)
Muneera Rasheed, clinical psychologist and behaviour scientist and former faculty, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Liam Smeeth, professor of clinical epidemiology and director of ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 3 - Common terrains of anti-colonial and feminist approaches to the politics of health
International health leaders discuss how feminist and decolonial advocates in health face similar resistance and attempts to sow divisiveness, and how they can join forces to promote health equity and justice for all.
Our panel
Raewyn Connell, sociologist and professor emerita at the University of Sydney, Australia
Sarah Hawkes, professor of global public health and director of the Centre for Gender and Global Health, University College London, UK
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, head of the school of history and professor of medical and global health histories, University of Leeds, UK
Asha George, professor and South African research...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Decolonising health and medicin: Episode 3 - Common terrains of anti-colonial and feminist approaches to the politics of health
International health leaders discuss how feminist and decolonial advocates in health face similar resistance and attempts to sow divisiveness, and how they can join forces to promote health equity and justice for all.
Our panel
Raewyn Connell, sociologist and professor emerita at the University of Sydney, Australia
Sarah Hawkes, professor of global public health and director of the Centre for Gender and Global Health, University College London, UK
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, head of the school of history and professor of medical and global health histories, University of Leeds, UK
Asha George, professor and South African research...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 2 - Looking back to move forward: missing histories of the decolonisation agenda
Experts discuss how failing to confront colonial pasts is linked to present lack of progress in global health equity, why health leaders need historical educations, and how, for Indigenous peoples, it’s not just a colonial history but a colonial present.
Our panel
Seye Abimbola, editor of BMJ Global Health, and health systems researcher from Nigeria currently based at the University of Sydney, Australia
Catherine Kyobutungi, Ugandan epidemiologist and executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, head of the school of history and professor of medical and glob...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 1 - The colonial legacy in clinical medicine
Healthcare leaders discuss the ways in which colonial-era bias and eugenics persist in today’s medical education and clinical practice in the UK and beyond, and what meaningful change is required to overcome racial and other healthcare inequalities
Our panel
Annabel Sowemimo, sexual and reproductive health registrar and part-time PhD student and Harold Moody Scholar at King’s College London, UK
Thirusha Naidu, head of clinical psychology, King Dinuzulu Hospital, and associate professor, Department of Behavioural Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Subhadra Da...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Planet centred care - How to talk about this stuff
We’ve heard throughout the series from people who have a passion for sustainability, and have successfully made changes in their organisations to reduce the planetary impact of their work. In doing so, they will have recruited other people who have a similar outlook - but they will have also convinced people who aren’t prioritising sustainability.
In this last podcast of the series, we’re delving into that - how to talk to colleagues and patients, in ways which connect with their own needs and preferences.
To help with that, we’re joined by David Pencheon, director of the Sustainable Development Unit for NHS ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Planet centered care - How to talk about this stuff
We’ve heard throughout the series from people who have a passion for sustainability, and have successfully made changes in their organisations to reduce the planetary impact of their work. In doing so, they will have recruited other people who have a similar outlook - but they will have also convinced people who aren’t prioritising sustainability.
In this last podcast of the series, we’re delving into that - how to talk to colleagues and patients, in ways which connect with their own needs and preferences.
To help with that, we’re joined by David Pencheon, director of the Sustainable Development Unit for NHS ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
How to talk about this stuff
We’ve heard throughout the series from people who have a passion for sustainability, and have successfully made changes in their organisations to reduce the planetary impact of their work. In doing so, they will have recruited other people who have a similar outlook - but they will have also convinced people who aren’t prioritising sustainability.
In this last podcast of the series, we’re delving into that - how to talk to colleagues and patients, in ways which connect with their own needs and preferences.
To help with that, we’re joined by David Pencheon, director of the Sustainable Development Unit for NHS ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Planet centred care - Why doing less can be hard
One element of sustainable healthcare is simply reducing the amount of healthcare you’re doing by not doing the things that are of no value to patients. However, how do we do this in practice? And why is it often so hard? What is the role of fear in this discussion? These are all questions we will discuss in this episode.
To help us with this we’ll be joined by Prof Ben Newell (cognitive psychologist from University of New South Wales, whose research interest includes judgement and decision making). and Dr Lucas Chartier, emergency medicine physician at the University Health Network in Toronto.
Ben Newell also...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Why doing less can be hard
One element of sustainable healthcare is simply reducing the amount of healthcare you’re doing by not doing the things that are of no value to patients. However, how do we do this in practice? And why is it often so hard? What is the role of fear in this discussion? These are all questions we will discuss in this episode.
To help us with this we’ll be joined by Prof Ben Newell (cognitive psychologist from University of New South Wales, whose research interest includes judgement and decision making). and Dr Lucas Chartier, emergency medicine physician at the University Health Network in Toronto.
Ben Newell also...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Planet centred care - Sustainable healthcare is better for patients
Acting on climate change is often framed as having to give stuff up, to cost more money, to make sacrifices. Yet in healthcare we find the opposite can often be true: there are many actions we can take which reduce the carbon footprint of healthcare which actually end up with better outcomes for our patients. In this episode, we hear from two examples of that.
Singing for breathing is a type of social prescribing to help people with chronic lung disease manage their breathlessness, reducing their need to be reliant on healthcare to do this, while also finding joy and a sense of community. Stephen is one patient who has be...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Planet centred care - Sustainable healthcare is good for staff
Ooops! If you listened to episode 3 when it first came out you may have realised that the title didn't quite match the content. We've just updated the title and the show notes below, and stay tuned for when we'll be soon releasing an episode on how sustainable healthcare can be good for patients.
In a system where healthcare workers are continually described as overworked and burnt out, how can we expect them to find the time to act on the climate? In this episode we turn that assumption on its head, and, in fact, show how acting to reduce the environmental impact of healthcare can help staff find joy in their work agai...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Sustainable healthcare is good for staff
Ooops! If you listened to episode 3 when it first came out you may have realised that the title didn't quite match the content. We've just updated the title and the show notes below, and stay tuned for when we'll be soon releasing an episode on how sustainable healthcare can be good for patients.
In a system where healthcare workers are continually described as overworked and burnt out, how can we expect them to find the time to act on the climate? In this episode we turn that assumption on its head, and, in fact, show how acting to reduce the environmental impact of healthcare can help staff find joy in their work agai...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Sustainable healthcare is better for patients
Acting on climate change is often framed as having to give stuff up, to cost more money, to make sacrifices. Yet in healthcare we find the opposite can often be true: there are many actions we can take which reduce the carbon footprint of healthcare which actually end up with better outcomes for our patients.
In this episode, we hear from two examples of that. Singing for breathing is a type of social prescribing to help people with chronic lung disease manage their breathlessness, reducing their need to be reliant on healthcare to do this, while also finding joy and a sense of community. Stephen is one patient who has be...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Talking overdiagnosis
In this month's Talk Evidence, Helen and Juan are reporting from Preventing Overdiagnosis - the conference that raises issues of diagnostic accuracy, and asks if starting the process of medicalisation is always the right thing to do for patients.
In this episode, they talk about home testing, sustainability and screening. They're also joined by two guests to talk about the overdiagnosis of obesity - when that label is stigmatising and there seem to be few successful treatments that medicine can offer, and the need to educate students in the concepts of overdiagnosis and too much medicine, to create a culture change in m...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
