The Deonandia Podcast

On March 8, 2017, I gave a brief talk to students of the Medlife initiative at the University of Ottawa on the topic of refugee health. A PDF of my slides are available here.

Oct 30, 2016 — I’m quite honoured to be one of the five 2016 recipients of the prestigious OCUFA Teaching Award, which is given to exceptional professors from Ontario universities. The awards ceremony was yesterday at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto. I took the liberty of recording both my introduction and my brief […]

Oct 22, 2016 — I was pleased to give a presentation to the attendees of the 9th Annual Dalla Lana School of Public Health Student-Led Conference: Secure Income, Secure Health.  This episode is the audio of that presentation, recorded on my douchey bluetooth headset, hence the poor audio quality. The slides from that presentation are available here.

This is the audio of a presentation I gave on Sep 24, 2016 at the AGHN Global Health conference in Ottawa.  You can access a reduced set of the slides in PDF format here.

Sep 9, 2016 — Dr Deonandan’s 4th year International Health students from 2015, Kristina Baier and Tujuanna Austin present this episode on the globality of maternal mortality.  (Yes, globality is a word. I looked it up.) They discuss a paper called, “Maternal mortality and distance to facility-based obstetric care in rural southern Tanzania: a secondary analysis of cross-sectional census […]

Sep 19, 2016 — As is tradition on this podcast, today’s episode is presented by students in Dr Deonandan’s 4th year International Health class from 2015. Amol Gill and Matthew Dawkins discuss the paper, “Clinical features of patients isolated for suspected Ebola virus disease at Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone: a retrospective cohort study“. They […]

Sep 9, 2016 — Dr Deonandan’s International Health students from 2015 –Arone Fantaye, Shahram Sharify, and Sevgim Kiper– discuss a paper titled, “Self-assessment of the outcome of early medical abortion versus clinic follow-up in India: a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial.”

Sep 9, 2016 — Another of Dr Deonandan’s 4th year International Health students from 2015 presents this special episode.  Jessica Rocheleau discusses the paper, “Effect of mobile phone reminders on follow-up medical care of children exposed to or infected with HIV in Cameroon (MORE CARE): a multicentre, single-blind, factorial, randomised controlled trial.”

Mar 19, 2016 — The Health Sciences Students Association of the University of Ottawa invited Dr Deonandan to say a few words about career planning. Here is the raw audio of that presentation.

Feb 7, 2016 — Sometime last year I sat down with two of my favourite young Epidemiologists, Kahina Abdesselam and Samuel Ileka-Priouzeau, to talk about a variety of issues around Epidemiology and health sciences education. The audio quality is poor, since it was recorded in the sun room on the roof of my condo. It took several months […]

On Jan 24, 2016, I met up with some former students who are now pursuing graduate work in Vancouver. Priscilla Karnabi and Rami El-Sayegh sat down with me at a very loud coffee shop to tell me about their work and their thoughts about the future of Epidemiology, public health, and health sciences in general. Here’s a pic of […]

Nov 8, 2015 — My presentation at the Global Health Students and Young Professional Summit in Montreal. I served on the career panel. I didn’t have any slides, but I think the audio is sufficient!

Oct 13, 2015 – The inaugural podcast of the IJHS journal, which I founded and presently advise, features myself and Stephen Kutcher discussing the present Canadian federal election through the lens of health scientists. The episode is also available on The RISS-IJHS website (and their podcast feed), as well as on Youtube.

July 2, 2015 — Chatting once more with public health expert Patrick Saunders-Hastings.  This time we go over three studies that have been in the news lately, everything from whether breastfeeding makes smarter babies to whether your horoscope can predict your health. Oh and something about homeopathy.  Here are the studies we talked about: You […]

July 2, 2015 — A few days ago, the state of California signed into law bill SB-277, which makes it mandatory for children attending public school to be vaccinated against certain diseases. To talk about this event, and related topics in vaccination research, I spoke to public health expert Patrick Saunders-Hastings.

June 2, 2015 – Greetings from Ahmedabad, India, where I am one of the instructors at the Indian Institute of Technology (Gandhinagar) Summer Institute on Global Health & Development. As part of our program, we have group discussions on a variety of topics, usually driven by published papers. One such discussion was based upon two papers, […]

May 5, 2015 — This is the first of 7 guest podcasts produced by the graduate students of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences. In today’s episode, Lynne Jrade, Andréanne Chaumont,  Jennifer Kathleen Cano, and Katrina MacFarlane discuss a paper titled, “The uncanny return of the race concept,” which was published in 2014 in Frontiers in Human […]

April 9, 2015 — The graduate students of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences kindly asked me to talk to them about career planning.  Here’s what I told them. A PDF of the slides is available here.

“Quest Myth” sounds like December 25th to a kid with a lisp. March 21, 2015 — As a follow-up to the Jan 25th interview, which suffered from crappy audio and way too many in-jokes, we return to the home of Dr Aparna Halpe, literary scholar and poet, to interview her and Dr Graham Sanders, scholar of Chinese language […]

Feb 9, 2015 — Had a great conversation with my old friend Neil Hrab today, which was broadcast live on Youtube for the blogger-journalists of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences. For the event, I had made arrangements with the business centre of the Royal York Fairmont Hotel in Toronto, explaining to them that I needed a private […]

Dec 16, 2014 — This is the fifteenth and final episode of our special series of podcasts produced by the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  Today’s installment is brought to us by Laetitia Kayitesi and Idil Houssein. They have chosen to examine a paper titled, “Evaluation of the impact of the voucher and […]

Dec 15, 2014 — This is episode fourteen of our special series of podcasts produced by the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  Today’s installment is brought to us by Stefan Litvinjenko and Kyle Alain Curtis. They have chosen to examine a paper titled, “Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability.”

Dec 14, 2014 — This is episode thirteen of our special series of podcasts produced by the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  Today’s installment is brought to us by Erika Frank. She has chosen to analyze a paper titled, “Evaluation of the impact of the voucher and accreditation approach on improving reproductive […]

Dec 13, 2014 — This is episode twelve of our special series of podcasts produced by the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  Today’s installment is brought to us by Yan Yan Lee, Sally Zhao, Rima Elchamaa, and Swanti Deut. They chose to examine the paper, “Evaluation of a reproductive health awareness program for […]

Dec 13, 2014 — This is episode eleven of our special series of podcasts produced by the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  Today’s installment is brought to us by Anne-Marie Hawco and Tayler Muldoon. The study they chose to analyze is “Impact of an integrated nutrition and health programme on neonatal mortality in […]