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JI Symposium 2024 - Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies

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? 

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Lilith Whittles - Mpox

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. 

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The Economics of Pandemic Preparedness

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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". 

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JI Symposium - Climate Change & Health

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

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Thom Rawson - Zoonotic Disease

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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. 

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Timothy Hallett - HIV

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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. 

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Bin Zhou - Hypertension

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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. 

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Patrick Doohan - Pandemic Preparedness

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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. 

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Katharina Hauck - Health Economics

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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. 

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Nimalan Arinaminpathy - Tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis is one of the world's biggest disease burdens, and also one of the most unequal. Depending on where you live in the world, it's either a forgotten relic of a different time, or a daily threat to your life. In this episode, Prof. 

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