Spotlight on Child & Adolescent Health: Indigenous communities

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Indigenous children and adolescents, regardless of where in the world they live, have worse health outcomes than other groups of children and adolescents. For our second Spotlight podcast in the Child and Adolescent Health Spotlight, acting Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Healthy Longevity Philippa Harris is joined by Lisa Richardson, Indigenous Health Strategy Lead at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, and Yves Minani, executive director of UPARED in Burundi, to discuss health among children and adolescents in indigenous communities. Guests on this podcast: Lisa Richardson - @RicharLisa Yves Minani - @MinaniYves

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