Anthony Costello's Conversation At the Social Edge

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...

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.

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.

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

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 as Director of the WHO Global Program on AIDS. This Program was operational worldwide and responsible for mobilizing and coordinating the global response to the AIDS pandemic. 2. Theresa Diaz Public health physician, trained at Columbia University, Coordinator Epidemiology and Monitoring and Evaluation Team, MCA, WHO. Formerly with CDC Atlanta and UNICEF.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.