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, and The Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation. The day gathered experts across these institutions to sit down and discuss how we can better align health and economic needs for future pandemics.

You'll hear from Prof. Jonathan Haskel of the Bank of England, Prof. Susan Michie - the Director of the Centre for Behavioural Change, and Dr. Els Torreele of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

You can watch the full series of talks and discussions in the event video recording here: https://youtu.be/RZQbYqmk5eE?si=GMsK6sXpgagbt4oL

Other speakers include Prof. Sir John Edmunds from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, the former Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention; and Prof. Edith Patouillard from the World Health Organisation (WHO) Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Even better, we've just published our report from this event, detailing the ideas generated, and how we're going to start addressing the challenges discussed at this event: https://t.co/nOWrO0VKYR

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])

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, work on Mpox here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/255693/mpox-who-experts-respond-questions-current/

For updates as we go, you can follow @Imperial_Jameel and @MRC_Outbreak.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])

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 challenges that we need to work to overcoming.

Speakers include:

• Professor Helena Legido-Quigley | Chair in Health Systems Science, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
• Professor Marisa Miraldo | Professor in Health Economics and Policy, Business School, Imperial College London
• Dr Margherita Molaro | Research Fellow, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
• Dr Oliver Watson | Lecturer, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
• Dr Bhargavi Rao | Clinical Associate Professor, Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @imperial-jameel.bsky.social.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Thom Rawson ([email protected])

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 Analytics, Health Emergencies Programme, WHO 
• Rachael Cummings | Humanitarian Director, Save The Children 
• Oksana Lovochkina | CEO Ukrainian Medical Charity
• Marine Vignon | European Partnerships Director, ALIMA
• Sian White | CEO, UKHIH 

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @imperial-jameel.bsky.social. Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street) Recorded and produced by Thom Rawson ([email protected])