Blueprints for a healthier future

I sat down with Dr Giuseppe Murray whose career has taken him from emergency rooms in South Africa to running hospitals in the Congo, Indonesia, China and now Canada.

A few gems from the episode...

• He talks about walking into a maternity ward in Goma and finding two mothers sharing a bed and an ambulance that had not moved in two years because there was no money for fuel. The turning point that made him decide he needed to fix systems, not just treat patients.

• He breaks down how our zip code predicts our health more than our genetics and why pregnancy is actually the earliest and clearest indicator of a nation’s health trajectory.

• He shares the most ambitious idea of all. Designing hospitals and care systems based on personas drawn from real data and real stories, a way to bring humanity back into maternity care and rebuild health services around the person rather than the product.

• And we touched on something we both keep thinking about. The world is drowning in information but starving for truth. How do we rebuild trust in science when even our feeds show us different realities.

If you want a mix of raw frontline stories, sharp systems thinking and hope for what healthcare could become, tune in.