When is universal health coverage not actually universal? What are the main hurdles to universality? And how can we get health coverage to hard-to-reach population? To discuss this and more, Jessamy is joined by Prof. Joseph Wong, Vice President, International, of the University of Toronto and founder of the Reach Alliance, and three members of the Global Reach Alliance, Elizabeth Lubinda, a maternal health and HIV/AIDS researcher at the University of Cape Town, Francesca Lanzarotti, a...

Justin Koonin and Helga Fogstad, of the Coalition of Partnerships for UHC and Global Health, join Zoë Mullan to discuss their hopes and expectations for the upcoming High-Level Meetings on health in 2023. Find out more about how The Lancet is marking its 200th anniversary with a series of important spotlights here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_lancet200_uhc You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to Universal Health Coverage...

How can we innovate to make UHC more efficient? How does UHC need to adapt in times of crisis? Pooja Jha, Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Regional Health: Europe, is joined by Sarah Thomson, Triin Habicht, and Haja Wurie to discuss. Find out more about how The Lancet is marking its 200th anniversary with a series of important spotlights here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_lancet200_uhc You can see all of our Spotlight content relating to Universal Health...

How can health systems make progress towards financing UHC? What are the different approaches? And why don't voluntary contribution and out-of-pocket systems perform as well? Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Global Health, Zoe Mullan, is joined by Irene Agyepong and Joseph Kutzin to discuss how funding affects UHC, in the first of a series of podcasts spotlighting UHC's importance to health. Find out more about how The Lancet is marking its 200th anniversary with a series of important...

Dr. Sam Guglani, an oncologist from Cheltenham, UK, has been running Medicine Unboxed for ten sold-out years. His show examines the interface between medicine, philosophy, and the humanities through a series of speakers and performances. Here, he joins Gavin to discuss philosophy, "good medicine", and the show's move to London. Find out more about Medicine Unboxed here: https://voices.medicineunboxed.org/

Jessamy Bagenal is joined by Dr. Eduardo J. Gomez and Pauline Mapfumo to discuss the drivers of childhood obesity, predatory industry tactics, and what steps can be taken to help bring down levels of childhood obesity. See the rest of our Child & Adolescent Health Spotlight content: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/child-adolescent-health

Georgia Bisbas and Priya Chudasama are joined by Jhumka Gupta, Zeal Desai, and Ziyu Peng to discuss "Taxes, Taboos, Tampons, (and TikTok)—the state of period poverty worldwide". See the rest of our Child & Adolescent Health Spotlight content: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200/child-adolescent-health

Can the countries of the world learn from the mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic? The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention is calling for an international treaty which could stop the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic. Dame Barbara Stocking, chair of the panel, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss progress that has been made, how such a treaty could be enforced, and what needs to happen.

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...

Phoebe Ashley-Norman is joined by Kareem Zuhdi, Ramona Hiltensperger, and Tanaka Mukuhwa to discuss the importance of children and adolescents being able to access peer support facilities. Guests on this podcast: Kareem Zuhdi – @KareemZuhdi Crisis textline - https://www.crisistextline.org/ Naseeha (Muslim Catered hotline) - https://naseeha.org/ Ramona Hiltensperger - @rhiltensperger UPSIDES webinars, training manual, interviews with peer support workers etc -...

Members of The Lancet’s International Advisory Board and staff members reflect on 200 years of The Lancet and talk about what it means to them. This podcast contains reflections from: Chris Murray Joy Lawn Duc Le Giuseppe Remuzzi Helena Wang Lan-Lan Smith Irene Agyepong Astrid James Jie Qiao Onisillos Sekkides Anthony Costello Peter Hayward Rita Giacaman Samer Jabbour Robert Beaglehole See all of our 200th Anniversary work here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200

Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Richard Horton looks back at two centuries of medical publishing, previews how we will be marking the journal’s 200th anniversary, and explains what the milestone means to him. Visit all of our 200th Anniversary content at: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet-200

Taissa Vila and Elisa Pucu of The Lancet Regional Health Americas  are joined by Prof. Felicia Knaul to discuss the lack of gender diversity in medical leadership in Latin America, the gap in evidence on gender dimensions of the health workforce, and how the majority of unpaid health care and caregiving is provided by women while men occupy leadership positions. Read Prof. Knaul's Viewpoint on gender equity in Latin America: The feminization of medicine in Latin America: ‘More-the-merrier’...

Louis Pasteur was involved in the creation of the first rabies vaccine in the 1880s, but today one person every ten minutes still dies from rabies, with all of the deaths concentrated in low and middle-income countries. Prof. Katie Hampson joins Gavin and Jessamy to talk about the history of the vaccine and why it's proven so difficult to eliminate rabies. Read The Lancet's special issue on Pasteur You can continue the conversation with Jessamy and Gavin on Twitter by following them at...

A special joint episode sees Prof. Delan Devakumar, host of the Race & Health podcast and Professor of Global Child Health at UCL, speak with Prof. Tendayi Achiume, Dr. Gideon Lasco, and Dr. Sujitha Selvarajah about what racism means to them,  how racism affects health, and what we can learn from The Lancet's new Series on racial and ethnic equity in science, medicine, and global health. Listen to the Race & Health Podcast here Read The Lancet Series on racism, xenophobia,...

Why do half of the world's firearm deaths occur in just six countries, all in the Americas? What does consistently treating guns as a public health issue entail? Stephen Hargarten and Arturo Cervantes Trejo join Gavin to discuss their work with the Network To Prevent Gun Violence In The Americas. You can continue the conversation with Jessamy and Gavin on Twitter by following them at @JessamyBagenal and @GavinCleaver.

What is climate litigation? How is it used to hold governments to account? What is the role of legal justice in trying to achieve climate justice? Marta Schaaf, director of the program on climate, economic and social justice and corporate accountability at Amnesty International, and Iain Byrne, international human rights lawyer at Amnesty, join Gavin and Jessamy to discuss using the law to achieve climate justice and their hopes for COP27. Read: The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on...

What does it mean that polio was found in wastewater in London and New York? What is “vaccine-derived” polio? What does eradication mean, and how will we achieve it? On this World Polio Day, Dr. Ananda Bandyopadhyay, deputy director of the polio team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explains the most up-to-date information and maps out the future of tackling polio. Read The Lancet's recent editorial on polio eradication: Polio eradication: falling at the final hurdle? Read the...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States and Director of NIAID, is standing down at the end of 2022. He joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss becoming a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, why scientific discourse in the USA is broken, and how the pandemic could end. Read The Lancet's profile of Dr. Fauci here: Anthony Fauci: moving on You can continue the conversation with Jessamy and Gavin on Twitter by following them at @JessamyBagenal and...

Editor-in-chief of The Lancet Rheumatology Heather Van Epps joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss the journal's recent work on gender and equity, and their podcast series looking at the realities of clinical care in under-served populations. You can find out about their Lancet  summit here And you should definitely listen to their podcast miniseries, Clinical Realities, which you can do by clicking here. You can continue the conversation with Jessamy and Gavin on Twitter by following them at...

The amazing Prof. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Professor of Black Maternal Health at Tufts University School of Medicine, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss the widening mortality and morbidity gap affecting Black mothers in the USA, the prospects for maternal safety following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and how we can increase the diversity of NIH grant recipients. Read our profile of Prof. Amutah-Onukagha here: Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha: advancing maternal health justice You can...

There hasn't been a shortage of vaccines in Bulgaria, but only around 30% of the population are vaccinated, in a country which already had the lowest life expectancy in the EU. Professor Antoniya Dimova joins Gavin and Jessamy to talk about the pandemic in Bulgaria, how misinformation shaped the public health response during COVID-19, and where Bulgaria goes from here. You can continue the conversation with Jessamy and Gavin on Twitter by following them at @JessamyBagenal and @GavinCleaver.

What’s happening with monkeypox in Africa? Why wasn’t monkeypox tackled when we had the chance? What will the PHEIC declaration change? Prof. Yap Boum, Epicentre Representative for Africa, the research arm of Medecins sans Frontières, joins Gavin and guest host Dr. Miriam Lewis Sabin to discuss. You can read The Lancet's collection of articles on monkeypox here.

Mandip Aujla talks to Binita Kane, co-founder of South Asian Heritage Month, about South Asian culture, history, and community, and the two new chairs of the Lancet's Group for Racial Equality discuss the group's work on diversity and inclusion. Find out more about South Asian Heritage Month here You can continue the conversation with Jessamy and Gavin on Twitter by following them at @JessamyBagenal and @GavinCleaver.

Nine Lancet journals are top of their categories for Impact Factor in the latest measurements. What is the value of Impact Factors? What do they capture, and what don’t they capture? Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss impact. You can continue the conversation with Jessamy and Gavin on Twitter by following them at @JessamyBagenal and @GavinCleaver.