The BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interest
Jeremy Farrar, is director of the Wellcome Trust, as well as advisor to the government on SAGE. Trained as a medic and with a PhD in neuro-immunology, he was a professor of Tropical Medicine and Global health at the University of Oxford.
In this podcast, he tells us why he thinks that vaccine nationalism is a very short-termist response the pandemic, and why he's bullish about new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.www.bmj.com/coronavirus (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 19, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interest
Jeremy Farrar, is director of the Wellcome Trust, as well as advisor to the government on SAGE. Trained as a medic and with a PhD in neuro-immunology, he was a professor of Tropical Medicine and Global health at the University of Oxford.
In this podcast, he tells us why he thinks that vaccine nationalism is a very short-termist response the pandemic, and why he's bullish about new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
www.bmj.com/coronavirus (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 19, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Coronavirus Update With Peter Piot, MD, PhD
Peter Piot, MD, PhD, director of The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is a legend in global health, having been involved in identification of HIV and Ebola virus in Africa. He was founding executive director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 to 2008. He joins JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the global public health response to COVID-19 past, present, and future. Recorded January 28, 2021. Related Article(s): The Challenges Ahead With Monoclonal Antibodies (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - February 1, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 699: Arboviruses at ASTMH
From the 2020 online meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Vincent speaks with Jonathan Auguste, Carol Blair, Desiree LaBeaud, Louis Lambrechts, and Mauricio Nogueira about their careers and their research on arthropod-borne viruses. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Jonathan Auguste, Carol Blair, Desiree LaBeaud, Louis Lambrechts, and Mauricio Nogueira Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode RNAi in arbovirus-vector interactions (Viruses) Arbovirus emergence via bridge vectors (Sci Rep) Rift Valley fever (Trop Med Inf Dis) Fl...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 27, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
The corona virus pandemic in South America
At the end of May, the WHO said that South America has become the new epicentre of the covid-19 pandemic.
The majority of those with covid are in Brazil - not entirely surprising given it is the most populous - but in neighbouring Peru, numbers are growing too.
And it’s to Peru that we turn to talk to our guest today, Valerie Paz-Soldan is a social scientist and director of the Tulane Health Office for Latin America - part of the university’s school of public health and tropical medicine.
She joins us to talk about the pattern of the virus in Peru in particular, but elsewhere in the region, and how the pandemic is ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 15, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The corona virus pandemic in South America
At the end of May, the WHO said that South America has become the new epicentre of the covid-19 pandemic.
The majority of those with covid are in Brazil - not entirely surprising given it is the most populous - but in neighbouring Peru, numbers are growing too.
And it’s to Peru that we turn to talk to our guest today, Valerie Paz-Soldan is a social scientist and director of the Tulane Health Office for Latin America - part of the university’s school of public health and tropical medicine.
She joins us to talk about the pattern of the virus in Peru in particular, but elsewhere in the region, and how the pandemic is ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 15, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Public health response to covid-19 - data integrity and the importance of international comparison
This last week has seen questions raised about the integrity of some of the epidemiological data being produced by US states, and as rates continue to grow in some countries international comparisons are being questioned.
To discuss the implication of that are;
Sridhar Venkatapuram
associate professor global health& philosophy at King's College London
Kathleen Bachynski
Assistant professor of public health at Muhlenberg College
Martin MckeeProfessor of European health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 26, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Public health response to covid-19 - data integrity and the importance of international comparison
This last week has seen questions raised about the integrity of some of the epidemiological data being produced by US states, and as rates continue to grow in some countries international comparisons are being questioned.
To discuss the implication of that are;
Sridhar Venkatapuram
associate professor global health & philosophy at King's College London
Kathleen Bachynski
Assistant professor of public health at Muhlenberg College
Martin Mckee
Professor of European health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 26, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Adam Kurchaski, using viral epidemiology to combat fake news
Hydroxychloroquine is in the news again - as Trump and some news organisations are pushing it as a treatment, despite evidence (published in The BMJ) showing it lacks efficacy, and has a load of potential negative effects - including arrhythmias.
We know that kind of information spreads online - particularly through social media, but how does it do that?
In this podcast we talk to Adam Kurchaski, and epidemiologist from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who has used disease modelling tools to look at fake news spread, an d has some ideas about creating an online social distance.For more covid coverage ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Adam Kucharski, using viral epidemiology to combat fake news
Hydroxychloroquine is in the news again - as Trump and some news organisations are pushing it as a treatment, despite evidence (published in The BMJ) showing it lacks efficacy, and has a load of potential negative effects - including arrhythmias.
We know that kind of information spreads online - particularly through social media, but how does it do that?
In this podcast we talk to Adam Kucharski, and epidemiologist from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who has used disease modelling tools to look at fake news spread, an d has some ideas about creating an online social distance.For more covid coverage ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Adam Kucharski, using viral epidemiology to combat fake news
Hydroxychloroquine is in the news again - as Trump and some news organisations are pushing it as a treatment, despite evidence (published in The BMJ) showing it lacks efficacy, and has a load of potential negative effects - including arrhythmias.
We know that kind of information spreads online - particularly through social media, but how does it do that?
In this podcast we talk to Adam Kucharski, and epidemiologist from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who has used disease modelling tools to look at fake news spread, and has some ideas about creating an online social distance.
For more covid coverage ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
