JameelCast

This episode brings you further highlights from the speakers at our 2024 Symposium, on the theme of "Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies". Here in part 2, we present the panel discussion bringing together specialists with extensive real world experience of delivering healthcare in emergency settings. Speakers include: Olivier le Polain  |   Unit Head, Acute Events Analytics, Hea...

This episode brings you highlights from the speakers at our 2024 Symposium, on the theme of "Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies". Maintaining and optimising health systems - the way we deliver health care, is hard enough under normal working conditions. But what about in emergency settings? Pandemics, natural disasters, global conflicts, all introduce unique challenges that we...

This episode, we speak to Dr. Lilith Whittles, about a disease that has recently been, once again, declared a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)". This episode will give you a full update on these latest outbreaks, and everything you might have wanted to ask about Mpox, but didn't know how or where. You can read more about the WHO's, and Imperial's, work on Mpox he...

Episode Notes We're arriving once again in your podcast feed for a brief glimpse into the room at one of our recent events: "The economics of pandemic preparedness: Trade-offs in peacetime and pandemics". This was an event co-organised and funded by the Imperial College London Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, the Institute of Infection, and The Centre for...

We close out this series of JameelCast with some highlights from our 2023 symposium: "How to reduce the impact of climate change on health - Research evidence on effective intervention." This day event brought together hundreds of stakeholders in academia, business, finance, and industry, to hear more on the cutting edge research into how the world's health will be struck by the climate...

Episode Notes Today, the tables turn, as Dr. Thom Rawson finds himself on the other side of the interview, introducing his area of expertise, zoonotic diseases - diseases in animals. Most human pandemics begin with an animal disease crossing over to humans. What is the chance of this happening again? What can we do to minimise the risk of this happening? You can follow all things Jameel Institue a...

Episode Notes This World AIDS Day, we hear about the work of Prof. Tim Hallett. From his early work helping inform WHO guidelines and treatment regimens, to his work today in helping strengthen and support wider health systems more holistically. You can read about the work of Thanzi La Onse here: thanzi.org/ Or learn more about the health system model itself at: tlomodel.org/ You can follow all th...

Episode Notes One in three adults worldwide suffer from high blood pressure - a non-communicable disease that significantly worsens your outcomes from other diseases too. Today we hear from Dr. Bin Zhou on his research in mapping and understanding the state of the world's hypertension burden, and how that's changed over time. You can see the output of the NCD-RisC group from their website: https:/...

Episode Notes The COVID-19 pandemic taught us a lot of things, first and foremost, how do we best prepare for the inevitable next time? Today, we speak with Dr. Patrick Doohan on the topic of Pandemic Preparedness, and the leading new research on investing for future pandemics. You can learn more about the workings of the DAEDALUS model that Patrick discusses here: https://www.nature.com/articles/...

Episode Notes We've heard a lot so far about some of the latest technologies, policy making, and global interventions. There's one thing that all of these advancements require however - money. Today, we speak with the Jameel Institute's Deputy Director Prof. Katharina Hauck, for a dive into the world of Health Economics. How do we value health? How do we provide funding? How do we get the most ban...

Episode Notes Tuberculosis is one of the world's biggest disease burdens, and also one of the most unequal. Depending on where you live in the world, it's either a forgotten relic of a different time, or a daily threat to your life. In this episode, Prof. Nimalan Arinaminpathy talks us through the scale of the TB challenge, and his work in helping End TB. Read more about the WHO's global End TB ta...

Episode Notes AI technology is everywhere in the news nowadays. This week, we hear from Tristan Naidoo, one of the Jameel Institute's PhD students, on how he is leveraging the boom in natural language processing for his own research: using social media data from Twitter, to try and understand how the public reacts to adherence measures like lockdown. Try sentiment analysis for yourself at https://...

Episode Notes During a disease outbreak, it's crucial to know how fast a disease is spreading through a population. This week, Dr. Anne Cori talks us through her research - making these rapid assessments of transmissibility easier and more accessible than ever before. You can explore the software package Anne discusses for yourself at: https://github.com/jstockwin/EpiEstimApp/wiki . For more infor...

Episode Notes For this first episode, take a look back at the last 30 years of disease outbreak response. See how the field has grown and developed, and how lessons have been learned, as told by a scientist with 30 years of experience working on the front line - Prof. Neil Ferguson. See the 2023 UK's National Risk Register here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-risk-register-202...

Episode Notes Introducing JameelCast, the podcast showcasing the latest public health research, from the scientists themselves. This limited series will explore Disease Forecasting, AI Technologies, Health Economics, Pandemic Preparedness and more. Subscribe now to catch every episode. You can find out more about the Jameel Institute at our website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jameel-institute And...