Anthony Costello's Conversation

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Anthony Costello's Conversation at The Social Edge offers in depth conversation about big ideas and solutions for our health, wealth and sustainable future. If youre interested in medicine, public health, nutrition or the environment this blog is for you. Or if you want to know more about the politics and economics of health and sustainable development. I shall give you evidence, discussion and the tools you need for your own success.

Episodios

  • Lesley Regan on women in leadership, reproductive rights and safer childbirth

    07/07/2019 Duración: 01h02min

    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...

  • Food systems: a conversation with David Nabarro

    05/04/2019 Duración: 34min

    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.

  • Reasons to be Cheerful: My Podcast with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd

    23/12/2018 Duración: 57s

    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.

  • On Cannabis, and Health Systems for Women and Children with Rajani Ved and Tanya Doherty

    14/11/2018 Duración: 40min

    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

  • Future Directions for Child Health Part 1. Mike Merson and Theresa Diaz

    05/10/2018 Duración: 48min

    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 a

  • How to be a social activist for health: an interview with David Sanders

    25/07/2018 Duración: 01h08min

    David Sanders, an internationally renowned paediatrician and public health researcher, has spent fifty years involved in struggles for health in Zimbabwe, the UK and South Africa. He has always been passionate about participatory socialist democracy as a way to improve health and reduce inequality. In this wide-ranging one hour interview he offers analysis of the causes of the causes of inequality and poor health, and guidance to young social and health activists about how to tackle contemporary challenges for health, the environment, gender and inequality.

  • The Impossible Task of Feeding Children Well with Predatory Food Companies: How a Nutritionist and Human Rights Lawyer would Tackle it.

    19/06/2018 Duración: 01h48s

    We face a double burden of malnutrition. Almost one billion people go to bed hungry. And obesity rates rise remorselessly. In many parts of the world our children are fatter, less active and less likely to be exclusively breastfed than they have ever been. In these two conversations with leading nutritionist Gay Palmer and international human rights lawyer Belinda Reeve, I explore the politics of feeding children, and whether food companies are infringing the rights of children through aggressive marketing of infant formula, junk food and sugar in everything. They suggest ways that states and professionals might regulate the culture and commerce of your children's diet.

  • What you should know about politics, development and health in India today, with Patralekha Chatterjee

    25/05/2018 Duración: 52min

    My conversation with Patralekha Chatterjee, international journalist and author, about politics, health, diet, the environment, caste, cultural diversity and the status of women in India. Also a round-up of news from the World Health Assembly, about the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and on the Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, India.

  • Podcast 004 “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” Emily Dickinson

    04/05/2018 Duración: 55min

    Conversations with WHO Director of Ageing John Beard and Scarlet McNally, orthopaedic surgeon, on healthy ageing, integrated care for older people, and how to keep people active and engaged.

  • Podcast 003: The best and the brightest: Yale women graduates on climate, feminism and the future

    27/04/2018 Duración: 43min

    Yale women graduate students discuss their attitudes to climate change, emerging student activism, nationalism, feminism, gun control, drug use, the feckless baby boomer generation, and reasons to be optimistic or depressed about the world.