An update of the 2015 WHO estimates of foodborne disease shows that in 2021 alone, transmission of 42 different hazards in food caused 866 million illnesses and 1.52 million deaths. So what can be done about this huge burden of illness? How is data like this collated? And what don't we know?
Yuki Minato and Rob Lake, two authors of the papers, join Gavin Cle ... Show More
Aug 19
Shatha Elnakib on the future of maternal and child health in Afghanistan
Since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan again in 2021, women have been prevented from studying and therefore from training to provide services to mothers, newborns, and children. Dr. Shatha Elnakib and colleagues used the LiST (Lives Saved Tool) modelling system, to illustr ... Show More
15m 38s
Jun 2026
Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro and Kinza Hasan at Women Deliver 2026 in Melbourne/Naarm
Coming to you from Women Deliver 2026 in Melbourne/Naarm, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health Gavin Cleaver speaks with Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro, the new director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, about her decades of work and activism in the ... Show More
30m 1s
May 2023
Kadia Petricca and Joyce Kambugu on access to essential cancer medicines for children
<p>Dr Kadia Petricca (SickKids Hospital, Toronto, Canada), Dr Joyce Kambugu (Uganda Cancer Institute, Kampala, Uganda), and Dr Avi Denburg (SickKids Hospital) discuss their paper “Access to essential cancer medicines for children: a comparative mixed-methods analysis of availabil ... Show More
28m 40s
Nov 2023
Low carb and cancer screening
<p>Each episode of Talk Evidence we take a dive into an issue or paper which is in the news, with a little help from some knowledgeable guests to help us to understand what it all means for clinical care, policy, or research. </p>
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<p>Helen Macdona ... Show More
33m 22s
Jul 2022
Cancer detection and protection…from the lab to the world
Dr Rihab Nasr, Tenured professor at the department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences and director of cancer prevention and control program at the Naef K Basile Cancer Institute at the AUB Medical Center, has been internationally recognized for her breakthroughs ... Show More
19m 38s
Feb 2024
Cervical cancer could be eliminated: here's how
Cervical cancer is both treatable and preventable, and the WHO has called for countries to come together to to eliminate the disease in the next century.However the disease still kills over 300,000 people each year, and levels of screening, treatment and vaccination need to be st ... Show More
17m 21s