My go at recalling ten important readings that changed my practice
A podcast interview with Professor Lesley Regan, President of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In this podcast I chat with Lesley about what brought her into medicine and…
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I worked first with David Nabarro in Nepal in 1984. He is brilliant, inspiring, political and innovative. Working with him is an experience. You get used to meetings at all hours of the day, lots of stress, occasional shouting matches, but a huge amount of fun. In this podcast we chat about his current initiative with Food Systems Dialogues and how he sees nutrition and food issues right now.
In which I joined Ed and Geoff, along with Julia Unwin and Dr Agnelo Fernandes, to chat about humanity, kindness and sympathy groups in public services.
https://medium.com/@am_costello/the-g6-a-german-brit-american-french-russian-and-italian-go-into-a-bar-41cbab5938b5 Six thirty-something millennials — a German, Brit, American, French, Italian and Russian— drink in London’s Black Dice bar.
I review the latest brain research on cannabis, and then interview two guests, Dr Rajani Ved from India and Professor Tanya Doherty, S Africa, about how we can improve health systems for women’s and children’s health
Anthony Costello gives his regular news update. This week he discusses Yemen conflict; Spain’s donation to UNRWA; Leptospirosis in India, UK child poverty; the WHO Global Exercise Report.
He then interviews two contributing authors on the latest BMJ Series on the WHO UNICEF Strategic Review of Child Health
1. Mike Merson
Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health and Vice President and Vice Provost for Global Affairs at Duke University. He joined the Duke faculty in November 2006 as the founding director of the Duke Global Health Institute and served in that role through 2017. In addition, Dr. Merson was Vice Chancellor for Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Affairs until 2017.
In 1978, he joined the World Health Organization (WHO) as a Medical Officer in the Diarrheal Diseases Control Program. He served as Director of that Program from January 1980 until May 1990. In August 1987, he was also appointed Director of the WHO Acute Respiratory Infections Control Program. In May 1990, he was appointed as Director of the WHO Global Program on AIDS. This Program was operational worldwide and responsible for mobilizing and coordinating the global response to the AIDS pandemic.
2. Theresa Diaz
Public health physician, trained at Columbia University, Coordinator Epidemiology and Monitoring and Evaluation Team, MCA, WHO. Formerly with CDC Atlanta and UNICEF.
Few doctors realize that their work is often about human rights. A few years ago Flavia Bustreo, then Assistant Director-General of WHO, and Paul Hunt, the first UN Special Rapporteur…
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