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Accelerating Health

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  • Summary

  • Since the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, healthcare systems have faced unprecedented challenges. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerability of those living with non-communicable diseases, conditions that are not transmissible such as: heart disease, stroke, chronic lung disease, cancer and diabetes. These diseases are collectively responsible for almost 70% of all deaths worldwide every year. Now more than ever, people are looking at how we deal with health and recognising the pressures health systems face. Yet despite this global focus on health and healthcare delivery, NCDs remain a growing, critical concern. Accelerating Health looks at these issues head on, exploring the successful projects and organisations already making a difference, and asking what will happen in the coming years?

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Episodes
  • Future Landscapes
    Apr 11 2022

    What could the world's rising urban populations mean for healthcare? Cities have always been places of intrigue and excitement, bustle and business, but their seemingly endless expansions can pose both opportunities and challenges to the health of their inhabitants. This episode looks to the future as we understand what it takes to not only make a city great, but to position it as a health hub for its’ citizens.


    Join consultant paediatrician and presenter Dr Ravi Jayaram as he talks to Pamela Carbajal, the urban health and regional planner consultant at UN-Habitat; Celine d’Cruz, director of Block by Block and co-founder of Slum Dwellers International; and Dr Claus Runge, lead Market Access, Public Affairs & Sustainability group at Bayer AG.


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    36 mins
  • Challenging Climates
    Mar 28 2022

    Crises, conflict, and climate change make treating chronic conditions incredibly challenging - not to mention that treatments are often side-lined by more ostensibly pressing problems. As many of us try to make sense of the ongoing conflicts and natural disasters affecting lives across our increasingly fragile world, explore how people are striving to build resilient healthcare systems for those most vulnerable.


    Having done military service in Bosnia, medical doctor, presenter and journalist Dr Saleyha Ahsan brings her expertise to this conversation. Listen as she talks to Lilian Kiapi, director-

    health country support at International Rescue Committee; Mia Atoui, president & co-founder of Embrace Lebanon; and Hector Castro, head of policy Latin America, Roche.


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    29 mins
  • Representation Matters
    Mar 13 2022

    Gender, identity, sexuality and racial inequity are some of the vitally important conversations that are coming to the fore in healthcare. As awareness grows of the variation disparities in people’s lived experiences, it’s time to discuss how noncommunicable diseases are experienced, treated, and managed across different sections of society.


    Consultant paediatrician and presenter Dr Ravi Jayaram returns to the show to lead this electric conversation between Sheila Tlou Motswana, co-chair of the Nursing Now Global Campaign and Global HIV Prevention Coalition; Midnight Poonkasetwattana, executive director of APCOM; and Dr Anthony Yanni, Senior Vice President and Head of Patient Centricity at Astellas.


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    39 mins

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