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Gender equity in Latin American health leadership Dec 21, 2022

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Taissa Vila and Elisa Pucu of The Lancet Regional Health Americas are joined by Prof. Felicia Knaul to discuss the lack of gender diversity in medical leadership in Latin America, the gap in evidence on gender dimensions of the health workforce, and how the majority of unpaid health care and caregiving is provided by women while men occupy leadership positions.
Read Prof. Knaul's Viewpoint on gender equity in Latin America:
The feminization of medicine in Latin America: ‘More-the-merrier’ will not beget gender equity or strengthen health systems
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Editorial team: Niall Boyce, Miriam Sabin, Jessamy Bagenal, Richard Horton, and Gavin Cleaver

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Louis Pasteur special edition: Rabies Dec 15, 2022

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Louis Pasteur was involved in the creation of the first rabies vaccine in the 1880s, but today one person every ten minutes still dies from rabies, with all of the deaths concentrated in low and middle-income countries. Prof. Katie Hampson joins Gavin and Jessamy to talk about the history of the vaccine and why it's proven so difficult to eliminate rabies.
Read The Lancet's special issue on Pasteur
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Editorial team: Niall Boyce, Miriam Sabin, Jessamy Bagenal, Richard Horton, and Gavin Cleaver

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Advancing racial and ethnic equity in science, medicine, and global health Dec 08, 2022

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A special joint episode sees Prof. Delan Devakumar, host of the Race & Health podcast and Professor of Global Child Health at UCL, speak with Prof. Tendayi Achiume, Dr. Gideon Lasco, and Dr. Sujitha Selvarajah about what racism means to them, how racism affects health, and what we can learn from The Lancet's new Series on racial and ethnic equity in science, medicine, and global health.
Listen to the Race & Health Podcast here
Read The Lancet Series on racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and health

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Editorial team: Niall Boyce, Miriam Sabin, Jessamy Bagenal, Richard Horton, and Gavin Cleaver

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Firearms and public health in the Americas Nov 29, 2022

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Why do half of the world's firearm deaths occur in just six countries, all in the Americas? What does consistently treating guns as a public health issue entail? Stephen Hargarten and Arturo Cervantes Trejo join Gavin to discuss their work with the Network To Prevent Gun Violence In The Americas.
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Editorial team: Niall Boyce, Miriam Sabin, Jessamy Bagenal, Richard Horton, and Gavin Cleaver

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The role of litigation in fighting the climate crisis Nov 08, 2022

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What is climate litigation? How is it used to hold governments to account? What is the role of legal justice in trying to achieve climate justice? Marta Schaaf, director of the program on climate, economic and social justice and corporate accountability at Amnesty International, and Iain Byrne, international human rights lawyer at Amnesty, join Gavin and Jessamy to discuss using the law to achieve climate justice and their hopes for COP27.
Read: The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels
See: Our climate infographic

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Editorial team: Niall Boyce, Miriam Sabin, Jessamy Bagenal, Richard Horton, and Gavin Cleaver

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World Polio Day: ”Vaccine-derived” polio, eradication, and surveillance Oct 24, 2022

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What does it mean that polio was found in wastewater in London and New York? What is “vaccine-derived” polio? What does eradication mean, and how will we achieve it? On this World Polio Day, Dr. Ananda Bandyopadhyay, deputy director of the polio team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explains the most up-to-date information and maps out the future of tackling polio.
Read The Lancet's recent editorial on polio eradication:
Polio eradication: falling at the final hurdle?
Read the recent article on detecting polio in London:
Sustained detection of type 2 poliovirus in London sewage between February and July, 2022, by enhanced environmental surveillance
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Editorial team: Niall Boyce, Miriam Sabin, Jessamy Bagenal, Richard Horton, and Gavin Cleaver

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Anthony Fauci on COVID-19, scientific communication, and the future Oct 06, 2022

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States and Director of NIAID, is standing down at the end of 2022. He joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss becoming a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, why scientific discourse in the USA is broken, and how the pandemic could end.
Read The Lancet's profile of Dr. Fauci here:
Anthony Fauci: moving on
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Editorial team: Niall Boyce, Miriam Sabin, Jessamy Bagenal, Richard Horton, and Gavin Cleaver

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Gender and equity in rheumatology Sep 29, 2022

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Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Rheumatology Heather Van Epps joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss the journal's recent work on gender and equity, and their podcast series looking at the realities of clinical care in under-served populations.
You can find out about their Lancet summit here
And you should definitely listen to their podcast miniseries, Clinical Realities, which you can do by clicking here.
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Editorial team: Niall Boyce, Miriam Sabin, Jessamy Bagenal, Richard Horton, and Gavin Cleaver

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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Roe v. Wade and Black maternal mortality in the USA Sep 15, 2022

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The amazing Prof. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Professor of Black Maternal Health at Tufts University School of Medicine, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss the widening mortality and morbidity gap affecting Black mothers in the USA, the prospects for maternal safety following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and how we can increase the diversity of NIH grant recipients.
Read our profile of Prof. Amutah-Onukagha here:
Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha: advancing maternal health justice
You can continue the conversation with Jessamy and Gavin on Twitter by following them at @JessamyBagenal and @GavinCleaver.

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The Lancet Voice is part of the Lancet Group podcast offering.

Editorial team: Niall Boyce, Miriam Sabin, Jessamy Bagenal, Richard Horton, and Gavin Cleaver

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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Low COVID-19 vaccination rates in Bulgaria Aug 25, 2022

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There hasn't been a shortage of vaccines in Bulgaria, but only around 30% of the population are vaccinated, in a country which already had the lowest life expectancy in the EU. Professor Antoniya Dimova joins Gavin and Jessamy to talk about the pandemic in Bulgaria, how misinformation shaped the public health response during COVID-19, and where Bulgaria goes from here.
You can continue the conversation with Jessamy and Gavin on Twitter by following them at @JessamyBagenal and @GavinCleaver.

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Editorial team: Niall Boyce, Miriam Sabin, Jessamy Bagenal, Richard Horton, and Gavin Cleaver

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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