Episodes
Published 09/27/22
Richard Maude discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases that assesses the efficacy of malaria chemoprophylaxis among forest goers in Cambodia. Read the full article: Antimalarial chemoprophylaxis for forest goers in southeast Asia
Published 09/27/22
Ben Cowling discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the protection that vaccines are providing against COVID-19 in Hong Kong. Read the full article: Vaccine effectiveness of one, two, and three doses of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac against COVID-19 in Hong Kong
Published 07/15/22
Hugh Adler discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the management and the clinical features for seven patients with monkeypox hospitalised in the UK between 2018 and 2021. Read the full article: Clinical features and management of human monkeypox: a retrospective observational study in the UK
Published 05/26/22
Prof Beate Kampmann, Dr Karen Keddy, and Prof Peter Ghazal discuss a new cross-journal Series in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and EBioMedicine addressing the potential for and challenge of applying big data to childhood infectious diseases in LMICs. Read the full Series: https://www.thelancet.com/series/big-data-childhood-infections-LMICs 
Published 12/14/21
A new article highlights how changing immunity profiles motivate the need for better responses to outbreaks of polio in Africa. 
Published 10/12/21
Paul Chapman and colleagues presents the results of an innovative trial assessing the safety of vaccinating healthy volunteers with attenuated Necator americanus hookworm larvae. 
Published 08/19/21
Josep Llibre discusses a trial on the impact of same-day testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection before a concert on new COVID-19 cases in Barcelona, Spain.
Published 05/27/21
Yap Boum (MSF) discusses his study done in Cameroon, which developed a promising testing strategy for COVID-19 to optimise the available resources .
Published 03/25/21
Two studies in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describe how the spread of resistance to both dihydroartemisinin and piperaquine is compromising malaria therapy in South-East Asia
Published 07/25/19
A trial investigates the use of a cocktail of phages for the therapy of infections in patients with burns.
Published 10/04/18
Editor of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, John McConnell, discusses the 1918 influenza pandemic and the lessons that can be learnt from it with John Oxford and Jeffery Taubenberger.
Published 06/21/18
Amir Shroufi discusses the early results assessing the safety and efficacy of the combination of bedaquiline and delamanid against drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Published 02/14/18
John Beigel, an author, and Eddie Sullivan discuss a phase 1 study assessing the safety and tolerability of human antibodies manufactured in transchromosomic cows for treatment of MERS.
Published 01/10/18
Valentina Cambiano discusses the cost-effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis medication in the UK.
Published 10/18/17
Christina Wayman talks to Gillian SteelFisher about polio vaccination in Afghanistan.
Published 08/14/17
Kit Fairley discusses The Lancet Infectious Diseases' new Commission on sexually transmitted infections.
Published 07/10/17
In our latest Chinese-language podcast, Linjuan Li discusses the epidemiology and evolution of infectious diseases in China in the decade since SARS with Lancet editor Helena Wang.
Published 04/13/17
In this special Chinese language podcast, Helena Wang is joined by two authors of papers on MCR-1 to discuss their research.
Published 01/28/17
Katherine Gibney discusses her paper on geographic variations and sociodemographic inequities in infectious disease notifications in Australia.
Published 10/25/16
Rob Aldridge discusses the prevalence of and risk factors for tuberculosis in UK migrant.
Published 03/22/16