Podcasts about professor dame sally davies

Drug resistance is one of the most serious health threats facing humanity. Bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites are learning more and more to resist the medicines that are meant to kill them. These 'superbugs' can spread easily, increasing the risk of prolonged illness, or even death, from common infections. And the danger for cancer patients is particularly high. One of the reasons is the overuse and misuse of antimicrobial medicines. By 2050, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) could cause 10 million deaths per year and cost more than USD 100 trillion to public health - if no action is taken.On the occasion of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week from 18-23 November, Cary Adams, UICC's CEO speaks with Professor Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance and former Chief Medical Officer for England.Cary Adams, UICC's CEO speaks with Professor Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance and former Chief Medical Officer for England. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a perfect world, what should governments be doing to help prevent AMR? What are the political obstacles in the way of tackling AMR?In our final episode of the series, we speak to Professor Dame Sally Davies, Former UK Chief Medical Officer, Dr Eduardo Samo Gudo, Deputy Director General of the National Institute of Health in Mozambique. We also go around the world and speak with a variety of international experts to gain holistic insight into the challenges we face with AMR globally. From Government officials to academic experts, how can humanity come together to find solutions to antimicrobial resistance?Hosted by Dr. Alex Lathbridge.Produced by Hiren Joshi, Lizzy Ratcliffe, and Dr. Hannah Macdonald. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, Claudia Hammond and her panel of experts focus on what's been called “the silent pandemic”, the threat to modern medicine of anti-microbial resistance or AMR. Infections are increasingly resistant to live-saving drugs like antibiotics and many believe the very future of modern medicine is hanging in the balance. In a series produced in collaboration with Wellcome Collection, this edition of The Evidence is recorded in front of a live audience in the Reading Room at Wellcome in London. Just last month, a new global study covering 204 countries and territories published in The Lancet reveals the scale of AMR to human health. The number of lives lost is double previous estimates. The latest data reveals 1.3 million deaths caused directly by resistant infections in just one year, 2019, and five million more deaths were linked with AMR. The figures are shocking, especially because one in every five deaths were in children, under five years old, with the highest number of deaths in Western Sub-Saharan Africa. But this is a pandemic that threatens everybody, wherever they live. Everly Macario a public health researcher from Chicago in the United States shares her family's story: the death of their 18 month old son, Simon, to a drug-resistant strain of the bacterial infection MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). The loss of Simon spurred Everly to campaign against the mis-use of antibiotics, particularly in agriculture and farming, which contributes to the rise in AMR. Leaders in the global fight against AMR join Claudia to discuss the threat to human health and address the paradox that while AMR claims millions of lives, so many die each day because they can't get access to basic, life-saving drugs like antibiotics. And Wellcome Collection's Research Development Lead, Ross Macfarlane, delves into the archives and shares the warning from the inventor of the first antibiotic, penicillin, Alexander Fleming as he accepted his Nobel Prize in 1945, that mis-use would lead to resistance developing. The new super drug was destined to spawn the new super bug. Claudia's guests include the UK Special Envoy on AMR, Professor Dame Sally Davies; the World Health Organisation's Assistant Director General for Anti-Microbial Resistance, Dr Hanan Balkhy; Senior Research Manager for Drug Resistant Infections at Wellcome, Dr Janet Midega and the Director of ReAct Africa, Dr Mirfin Mpundu. Produced by: Fiona Hill, Anand Jagatia and Maria Simons Studio Engineers: Duncan Hannant and Emma Harth

“In us and on us, we have our microbiome, which is more cells - bacterial, viral, and everything - than the number of human cells. And they're our friends. They're like a garden, we've got to plant them properly. We need to be starting to look at those much more, and genomics is going to play a key role.”  In this week's episode of The G word, Chris Wigley is joined by Sally Davies, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, former Chief Medical Officer and UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance. Having spent 20 years working with people with sickle cell disease, she is passionate about reforming healthcare, setting up the National Institute for Health Research and playing a key role in the establishment of Genomics England.   Today, Chris and Sally discuss generation genome, genetic exceptionalism and the value of patient stories. 

Dr. Rob Breiman and Ken Berta are joined by Professor Dame Sally Davies, the U.K.'s Special Envoy for Antimicrobial Resistance, and Andrew Staunton, HM Consul General in Atlanta, to talk about the urgent public health challenge posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR). With the use of antibiotics and deaths from drug-resistant infections rising, Dame Sally and Andrew discuss the essential steps that need to be taken to highlight and arrest this silent pandemic.Takeaways:06:00 — Without action, the death rate from drug resistant infections per year is predicted to reach 10 million by 2050.07:00  — As low- and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected by AMR, a sharp focus on investment and development is crucial.09:24  — Antibiotic effluence contaminates the environment, and fish farming is one of the biggest culprits.13:23  — AMR is a silent and creeping pandemic. We must communicate more effectively and broadly about the dangers.14:57 — To combat antimicrobial resistance, we need to begin with surveillance, better drug stewardship, examination of the food chain, and promotion of pharmaceutical innovation.18:57 — The impact of COVID-19 on AMR.22:18 — In a world of urbanization, global warming, climate change and COVID-19, why should people worry about antimicrobial resistance?26:29 — The private sector has a critical role to play.34:25 — Communication, education and engagement on AMR at the community level.38:38 — Finding the access versus excess balance.Special Guests:Professor Dame Sally Davies, U.K. Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge Andrew Staunton, HM Consul General in AtlantaReferences:The Trinity ChallengeInvestor Action on AMRThe Fleming FundJim O'Neill, Economist

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*CAUTION - Explicit Language in this episode*How much would you worry about a simple cut ? Probably not much as long as you can get to a medical professional on time and obtain the correct treatment. But what if I was to say that in a few years to come, antibiotics will no longer work? And a simple cut could leave you hugely at risk of sepsis and death. This could be the situation unless we address resistant microbes in our environment and joining me on the podcast to talk about this subject is Professor Dame Sally Davies.Dame Sally was the Chief Medical Officer for England and Senior Medical Advisor to the UK Government from 2011-2019. Dame Sally Davies was appointed as the UK Government’s Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in 2019. She is also the 40th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University.In the 2020 New Year Honours, Dame Sally became the second woman (and the first outside the Royal family) to be appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) for services to public health and research, having received her DBE in 2009.On the show we talk aboutDame Sally Davies incredible medical careerWhat sparked her interest in antimicrobial resistanceHow Bacteria become resistantWhere food has a role in resistanceWhat we can do as consumers?Check out The Doctor's Kitchen website for full show notes and social media links for this and all other episodes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Design in an Age of Crisis is a new mini-series on the Undercurrents podcast feed. Great design thinking can play a major role in improving our health and wellbeing, by strengthening our resilience to illness, and to major pandemics, like COVID-19. It can also be focused on helping the most marginalized members of the society. In this episode, Professor Dame Sally Davies, Kelly Doran and Charlene Prempeh discuss how design can empower marginalised groups within society, and improve health and social care.  Design In An Age Of Crisis is a global open call from the London Design Biennale and Chatham House. The open call is looking for radical and rapid responses, in any format, to problems facing humanity across four briefs: Health, Environment, Work and Society. Read the briefs and submit your radical design thinking by 31 August 2020. Submit your radical design idea: https://www.londondesignbiennale.com/opencall Credits: Speakers: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Kelly Doran and Charlene Prempeh Host: Ana Yang Sound Editor: Jamie Reed Recorded and produced by Chatham House

Design in an Age of Crisis is a new mini-series on the Undercurrents podcast feed. Great design thinking can play a major role in improving our health and wellbeing, by strengthening our resilience to illness, and to major pandemics, like COVID-19. It can also be focused on helping the most marginalized members of the society. In this episode, Professor Dame Sally Davies, Kelly Doran and Charlene Prempeh discuss how design can empower marginalised groups within society, and improve health and social care.  Design In An Age Of Crisis is a global open call from the London Design Biennale and Chatham House. The open call is looking for radical and rapid responses, in any format, to problems facing humanity across four briefs: Health, Environment, Work and Society. Read the briefs and submit your radical design thinking by 31 August 2020. Submit your radical design idea: https://www.londondesignbiennale.com/opencall Credits: Speakers: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Kelly Doran and Charlene Prempeh Host: Ana Yang Sound Editor: Jamie Reed Recorded and produced by Chatham House

What role does evidence play when the stakes are high, decisions are urgent, and the science is not settled? In this week's episode of Science, Policy & Pandemics, our host Dr Rob Doubleday and guest host Salma Shah explore the principles and practice of decision making in Government. With guests Jeremy Hunt MP and Professor Dame Sally Davies, we explore real life examples of tackling massive public health challenges. We address health emergencies including Ebola, Novichock and childhood obesity. CSaP's Science and Policy Podcast is a production of the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge. This series on science, policy and pandemics is produced in partnership with Cambridge Infectious Diseases and the Cambridge Immunology Network. Our guests this week: Salma Shah was Special Adviser to the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, from 2018-19. She was responsible for strategy and communication across the Department. She has served in Government since May 2014, in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG). Prior to this, Salma was a journalist at the BBC, producing the Today programme on Radio 4. Professor Dame Sally Davies became Master of Trinity College in October 2019. Previously, Dame Sally was the Chief Medical Officer for England. Professor Davies also chairs the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, and is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Advisory Committee on Health Research; the board of the Office for Strategic Co-ordination of Health Research; the International Advisory Committee for A*STAR, Singapore; and the Caribbean Health Research Council. The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP is the Conservative MP for South West Surrey. He has previously served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Secretary of State for Health, and Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. -- CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast is hosted by CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday, and is edited and produced by CSaP Communications Coordinator Kate McNeil. If you have feedback about this episode, or questions you'd like us to address in a future week, please email enquiries@csap.cam.ac.uk.

Julia talks to Professor Dame Sally Davies, the first and only woman to serve as Chief Medical Officer for England. They discuss the UK government's handling of the Covid-19 crisis, how she provided advice on healthcare crises, and why she wouldn't stand for it when she was labelled with the gendered term the “nation's nanny”.This episode was recorded remotely during the coronavirus crisis.If you enjoyed this episode or any others, please rate and review us on your preferred podcast provider. It really helps us reach more listeners with our message of a more gender-equal world. Any earnings from the podcast go back into funding for the Global Institute for Women's Leadership, furthering the work we do to create a world in which being a woman is not a barrier to becoming a leader. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the world premiere of ’Earthward’ at the Proms, young composer Alexia Sloane talks to Jenni about the upcoming performance and the causes that inspire the music. David Trimble, a leading figure in Northern Irish politics and joint Nobel Peace Prize Winner, now sits in the House of Lords. Last Wednesday it came as a surprise when he stood up in the House - during a debate about Northern Ireland - to say that his eldest daughter got married to her girlfriend, even though, in the past, he was opposed to same-sex marriage and voted against it. The party he used to lead – the UUP – used to be against it too. Vicky Trimble married her girlfriend, Roz, two years ago. Jenni talks to Professor Dame Sally Davies as she prepares to leave her post towards the end of the year as the Chief Medical Officer for England to take on the role of Master at Trinity College Cambridge,. Do you ever feel like a fraud, waiting to be found out? Clinical psychologist Jessamy Hibberd has a cure for “imposter syndrome”. And we hear from listener Claire Poole, who asks why the fear of not being good enough at work seems to affect women more than men. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Vicky Trimble Interviewed Guest: Rosalind Stephens Interviewed Guest: Alexia Sloane Interviewed Guest: Dame Sally Davies Interviewed Guest: Dr Jessamy Hibberd Interviewed Guest: Claire Poole

Who is responsible for our health and wellbeing? Helen McKenna talks with Professor Dame Sally Davies, as she prepares to move on from her role as Chief Medical Officer for England, about public health, her career, and the challenges of being a female clinical leader.

As Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies acts as the UK Government’s medical adviser and is the professional head of all directors of public health. She has been widely commended for her leadership of worldwide efforts to address the ‘ticking time bomb’ of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – also known as drug-resistant infections. In this fascinating lecture, Dame Sally discusses the rise of AMR, its implications and the global response to resolve the problem.

In the past, government may have intervened frequently in the economy, but our private lives were our own to live as we saw fit. In recent years, however, government has largely given up on being the ‘hand on the tiller’ of the economy and intervenes regularly in once-private aspects of life. Smoking is now banned in most public places, and smoking in cars in the presence of children is about to be banned. Environmental concerns have led to new efficiency standards for domestic appliances, and smart meters may regulate our electricity usage from afar, while we are constantly told to reduce our consumption of everything and there is serious discussion about how procreation should be limited to save the planet. Even now, parents are increasingly lectured to about how they should raise their children and, in Scotland, the Named Person rules mean a specific government employee will oversee each child’s upbringing. Even non-governmental organisations, charities, voluntary associations and academics increasingly see it as their role to ‘educate’ ill-informed, non-expert adults. From public health to environmental campaigns, the assumption is that left our own devices, we will make the ‘wrong choices’. England’s chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, complains that ‘three quarters of parents with overweight children do not recognise that they are too fat’. How can we trust adults who don’t understand the impact of their gas-guzzling family car on the planet or that feeding their kids junk food is leading to an obesity epidemic? While such attitudes and interventions are viewed as annoying or threatening in some instances, few people actively protest against them. And often there are popular demands for more regulation and legislation to protect us from harm. Why has government become so keen to make decisions for us? And why do we not even seem to take ourselves seriously as autonomous citizens? Or is such ‘infantilisation’ actually a sensible response to our limited capacities and propensity to shoot ourselves in the foot, based on a recognition that in fact, ‘there are no grown ups’. Is it reasonable to allow the ‘experts’ to decide how we live? If not, what should we do about it? Speakers Martha Gill journalist, the Economist Dan Hodges blogger; columnist, Daily Telegraph Ben Pile independent researcher, writer, and film-maker Chris Snowdon director, lifestyle economics, Institute of Economic Affairs; author, The Art of Suppression Chair Simon Knight director, Generation Youth Issues; board member, Play Scotland

Jim al-Khalili talks to Professor Dame Sally Davies about being a champion for patients and a champion for women. As Chief Medical Officer, the first woman to fill the post, she guides government decisions on pressing health issues such as antimicrobial resistance, mental health and, most recently, Ebola. Having spent many years working as a haematologist, focussing on sickle cell disease, Dame Sally now works tirelessly to put scientific evidence at the heart of Government decisions that affect out health. And it's this quest for evidence that has inspired much of her career. As Director General for Research and Development at the Department of Health, she saw the opportunity to overhaul health research in the National Health Service, focussing on the needs of patients. It was a hugely controversial idea which others had tried to implement, and failed. But she stuck to her guns and the National Institute for Health Research, which she created, is now the envy of the world. Named one of the most powerful women in the country, Dame Sally also has a powerful voice abroad. Through her work at the World Health Organisation, she's brought the world's attention to global threats like antimicrobial resistance. Producer: Beth Eastwood.

Increasing resistance to antibiotics is a threat to Britain which could be as dangerous as terrorism. That's the argument put by Professor Dame Sally Davies in her Free Thinking lecture at Sage Gateshead. She is joined on stage by Professor Hugh Pennnington and Dr Andrew Sails to talk about strategies for combatting infection and improving the nation's health. Recorded on Saturday 26th October 2013 in an event hosted by Anne McElvoy in front of a live audience at Sage Gateshead.

Professor Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer for England and the first woman to fill this post. She guides government decisions on diverse subjects such as superbugs, drug trials and obesity. She is also number 6 on the Woman’s Hour Power List.

In the first of a new series, File on 4 asks whether recent stark warnings about the threat posed by growing resistance to antibiotics have come too late. The Chief Medical Officer of England, Professor Dame Sally Davies, has painted an apocalyptic picture where routine operations could become deadly in just 20 years if we lose the ability to fight infection. But the programme discovers growing concern among doctors that bugs found in our hospitals have already developed the ability to withstand drugs which are effectively the last line of defence. Has the Government drive to eradicate MRSA and C-Difficile left the back door open for more challenging strains of superbug to take hold? Does the health service know why numbers of healthcare infections of E. Coli are rising? And where are the new medicines to tackle the resistant strains? The programme hears there's little incentive for drug companies to produce new antibiotics because they won't be able to make enough money. Allan Urry meets the medics on the front line in the battle to stop infection killing patients. Can the NHS win the war against the microbes? Producer: Paul Grant.

Following the chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies apocalyptic report comparing the threat of antibiotic resistance to terrorism, Dr Mark Porter looks at the overuse of antibiotics. He asks is it even useful to ask if an infection is viral or bacterial - are antibiotics the right thing even in a bad, bacterial infection? 60,000 pregnant women will go into premature labour every year in the UK. Mark visits a pioneering clinic at St Thomas's hospital in London to prevent premature labour. He also asks do all women need smear tests even if they're in long term monogamous relationships, have always had clear tests or are in a lesbian relationship? And aspirin to prevent the risk of stroke after hip replacements.