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The Global Health Histories podcast series seeks to enhance understanding of the historical context of health challenges facing the word today. The podcasts bring historians of international and global health into conversation with medical researchers and policymakers, examining the cultural, economic, political, and social contexts which shaped past health interventions. Each podcast examines a specific case study of contemporary relevance, addressing not only medical research and the prevention or amelioration of disease and debility, but also health-related policy and diplomacy. The series’ aim is to highlight the potential of historical research to aid national and global medical communities in responding to, and communicating about, the challenges of the present in order to shape a healthier future.Copyright 2025 All rights reserved. Higiene y Vida Saludable Mundial
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  • Episode 6 - Health Inequities and Disability

    Episode 6 - Health Inequities and Disability
    Feb 25 2026
    Episode 6 Health Inequities and Disability - show notes The sixth episode of The Global Health Histories Podcast, hosted by Shane Doyle (Professor of African History and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Heath Histories at the University of Leeds), focuses on disability and health inequities. The podcast features interviews with: Professor Jessica Meyer, Professor of British Social and Cultural History at the University of Leeds. Jessica is a specialist in the history of health inequities experienced by veterans with disabilities after the First World War (01:34); and with Dr Kaloyan Kamenov, who currently leads the World Health Organization program on disability, and helps coordinate the WHO Disability Health Equity Initiative (27:26). 1.3 billion people, around a sixth of the world’s population, live with disability. In the recent pandemic, COVID-related mortality among people with disabilities was 2.7 times higher than in the rest of the global population. This relative disadvantage is not a new phenomenon – in a series of studies analysing mortality due to all causes, people with disabilities were found to have a mortality rate that was around twice as high as people without disabilities. Much of this elevated risk of death is due to factors which are avoidable. In November 2025, the World Health Organisation launched a Disability Health Equity Network aiming to address the structural disadvantages which affect people with disabilities as they engage with health systems around the world. This episode discusses the ambitions of this new WHO program, and considers the significance of the First World War in the long history of efforts to achieve health equity for people with disabilities. Discussion focuses on a series of key issues: the importance of stimulating a demand for equitable health access; the prioritisation of ensuring state recognition of health equity as a right; and the challenges of achieving broad-based progress when health budgets are under pressure. For further reading, see: https://www.who.int/health-topics/disability#tab=tab_1 WHO Disability Health Equity Initiative World Health Organisation, Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities (2022) https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/expert-opinion/why-healthcare-leaving-people-disabilities-behind https://menwomenandcare.leeds.ac.uk/ Jessica Meyer, ‘“He does not appear to have done much useful work since he was wounded”: Age, disability, and the history of masculinity’, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 25, 1, May 2022: 41-58 Emre Umucu et al., ‘Health inequities among persons with disabilities: a global scoping review’, Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 13, Feb 2025 10;13:1538519.
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    49 m
  • Episode 5 - Adolescent maternal and reproductive health

    Episode 5 - Adolescent maternal and reproductive health
    Jan 27 2026
    The fifth episode of The Global Health Histories Podcast, hosted by Shane Doyle (Professor of African History and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Heath Histories at the University of Leeds), focuses on adolescent maternal and reproductive health, particularly in the Global South. The discussion features an interview with: Dr Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, who led work on adolescent health in the World Health Organization from 2005 until his retirement in 2023, first in the Department of Child and Adolescent Health, and then in the Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research. The episode discusses the particular health risks, both physical and mental, associated with adolescent reproduction. Adolescent mothers face elevated risks of conditions such as eclampsia, systemic infections, and postnatal depression, while their babies are more likely to be born preterm or with complications. While globally the adolescent birth rate has fallen since 2000, this decline has been extremely uneven, between and within countries. In this episode, discussion focuses on the reasons why adolescent reproduction continues to be marginalised within health systems, why progress has reversed in some societies, and why adolescent pregnancy is increasingly associated with various forms of vulnerability. Additional links Blum RW, Chandra-Mouli V.’ Where We Are and How We Got Here: Taking Stock of the State of Global Adolescent Health’. J Adolesc Health. 2024 Oct;75(4S):S6-S8. Centre for Global Health Histories Chung, W.H, Kim, ME., Lee, J. ‘Comprehensive understanding of risk and protective factors related to adolescent pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review’. Journal of Adolescence. 2018; 69: 180-188. UNFPA, My Body, My Life, My World: A global Strategy for Adolescents and Youth World Health Organisation, Adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights
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    36 m
  • Episode 4 - Maternal health and maternal mortality

    Episode 4 - Maternal health and maternal mortality
    Jan 13 2026
    The fourth episode of The Global Health Histories Podcast, hosted by Shane Doyle (Professor of African History and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Heath Histories at the University of Leeds) focuses on maternal health in the Global South, and particularly on maternal mortality in Kenya. The discussion features interviews with: Professor Marleen Temmerman, former Director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research of the World Health Organization  Dr Estelle Sidze, research lead for maternal, newborn, and child health and wellbeing at the African Population and Health Research Center The episode discusses the significance of landmark interventions in maternal health, from the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, to the development of dedicated Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals in this field. Yet, while much has been achieved, maternal mortality has proven to be one of the most intractable of global health challenges. In analysing why negative outcomes remain relatively common in the Global South, a number of issues are examined, from accountability within medical systems to maternal mental health. Additional links Centre for Global Health Histories WHO Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality WHO Ending preventable maternal mortality (EPMM): a renewed focus for improving maternal and newbor… Strategic Partnerships to Save Lives of Mothers and Newborns in Kenya Examining the quality of care across the continuum of maternal care (antenatal, perinatal and postn…
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    1 h y 11 m
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