JameelCast

Feb 18 2025 15 ep. 24 mins 2

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This limited series showcases the latest developments in the world of public health, and the contributions from Imperial College London's Jameel Institute. The COVID-19 pandemic has given many people a solid background in epidemiological theory, and now you can put that knowledge to use, learning more about some of the world's biggest public health challenges, from the experts themselves.

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JI Symposium 2024 - Healthcare Interrupted: Health Systems in Emergencies

Feb 18 2025 48 mins

This episode brings you further highlights from the speakers at our 2024 Symposium, on the theme of "Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies". Here in part 2, we present the panel discussion bringing together specialists with extensive real world experience of delivering healthcare in emergency settings. Speakers include: Olivier le Polain | Unit Head, Acute Events

JI Symposium 2024 - Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies

Feb 11 2025 34 mins

This episode brings you highlights from the speakers at our 2024 Symposium, on the theme of "Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies". Maintaining and optimising health systems - the way we deliver health care, is hard enough under normal working conditions. But what about in emergency settings? Pandemics, natural disasters, global conflicts, all introduce unique ch

Lilith Whittles - Mpox

Sep 17 2024 21 mins

This episode, we speak to Dr. Lilith Whittles, about a disease that has recently been, once again, declared a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)". This episode will give you a full update on these latest outbreaks, and everything you might have wanted to ask about Mpox, but didn't know how or where. You can read more about the WHO's, and Imperial's,

The Economics of Pandemic Preparedness

Jul 23 2024 29 mins

Episode Notes We're arriving once again in your podcast feed for a brief glimpse into the room at one of our recent events: "The economics of pandemic preparedness: Trade-offs in peacetime and pandemics". This was an event co-organised and funded by the Imperial College London Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, the Institute of Infection, an

JI Symposium - Climate Change & Health

Dec 12 2023 26 mins

We close out this series of JameelCast with some highlights from our 2023 symposium: "How to reduce the impact of climate change on health - Research evidence on effective intervention." This day event brought together hundreds of stakeholders in academia, business, finance, and industry, to hear more on the cutting edge research into how the world's health will be struc

Thom Rawson - Zoonotic Disease

Dec 05 2023 24 mins

Episode Notes Today, the tables turn, as Dr. Thom Rawson finds himself on the other side of the interview, introducing his area of expertise, zoonotic diseases - diseases in animals. Most human pandemics begin with an animal disease crossing over to humans. What is the chance of this happening again? What can we do to minimise the risk of this happening? You can follow all things J

Timothy Hallett - HIV

Nov 28 2023 21 mins

Episode Notes This World AIDS Day, we hear about the work of Prof. Tim Hallett. From his early work helping inform WHO guidelines and treatment regimens, to his work today in helping strengthen and support wider health systems more holistically. You can read about the work of Thanzi La Onse here: thanzi.org/ Or learn more about the health system model itself at: tlomodel.org/ You c

Bin Zhou - Hypertension

Nov 21 2023 22 mins

Episode Notes One in three adults worldwide suffer from high blood pressure - a non-communicable disease that significantly worsens your outcomes from other diseases too. Today we hear from Dr. Bin Zhou on his research in mapping and understanding the state of the world's hypertension burden, and how that's changed over time. You can see the output of the NCD-RisC group from their

Patrick Doohan - Pandemic Preparedness

Nov 14 2023 18 mins

Episode Notes The COVID-19 pandemic taught us a lot of things, first and foremost, how do we best prepare for the inevitable next time? Today, we speak with Dr. Patrick Doohan on the topic of Pandemic Preparedness, and the leading new research on investing for future pandemics. You can learn more about the workings of the DAEDALUS model that Patrick discusses here: https://www.natu

Katharina Hauck - Health Economics

Nov 07 2023 27 mins

Episode Notes We've heard a lot so far about some of the latest technologies, policy making, and global interventions. There's one thing that all of these advancements require however - money. Today, we speak with the Jameel Institute's Deputy Director Prof. Katharina Hauck, for a dive into the world of Health Economics. How do we value health? How do we provide funding? How do we