Re:solve Talks

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses mental health and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out for help. South Africa ranks 10th in the world for suicide rates, with men facing an alarming rate of 37.6 per 100,000. In this episode, host Hetal Baman is joined by Leon de Beer, Deputy Director of the South African Federation for Mental Health , to uncover the societal p...

How would you feel if you were turned away from receiving healthcare services because of how you identify? This is the reality for some individuals in Malawi and the center of this episode.  Our host, Hetal Baman speaks with Rodger Phiri, Executive Director of Art & Global Health Centre Africa (ArtGlo). Together, they explore the challenges faced by the LGBTQI community in accessing healthcare...

Did you know that the global skin lightening industry is a staggering $8.6 billion force? In this episode of Re:solve Talks, host Brian Brian Mastroianni sits down with Amira Adawe, the Executive Director of the Beautywell Project , to uncover the deep-seated issues fueling this industry. Amira sheds light on how entrenched biases, colorism, and the lingering effects of colonialism have imposed ha...

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is one of the most common vaginal condition in women of childbearing age. Shockingly, up to 84% of women with BV have no symptoms, contributing to its stigma and underdiagnosis. In this episode of Re:solve Talks, our host, Hetal Baman, engages in an insightful conversation with Professor Craig Cohen, a leading expert in women’s health and BV. They explore the widespread mi...

Psoriasis, a chronic skin condition, affects approximately 2% of people in Latin America, highlighting the need for greater awareness and access to medication in the region. Our host, journalist Brian Mastroianni, speaks with Silvia Fernandez Barrio, a radio and TV journalist in Argentina and founder of AEPSO – the first and only psoriasis patient organization in Argentina. The episode explores Si...

Did you know that 1.8 billion people globally are affected by skin diseases at any given time? How can global awareness initiatives like World Skin Health Day (WSHD) offer a platform, tools, resources for the destigmatization of diseases affecting the largest organ of our body - our skin? Our host, journalist Brian Mastroianni, speaks with Dr. Hassan Galadari, an American board-certified dermatolo...

Have you heard of plaque psoriasis? Our host, journalist Brian Mastroianni, speaks with Nitika Chopra, a U.S.-based chronic illness advocate, talk show host, and social media influencer. As the founder and CEO of Chronicon, which serves as a hub for the more than 133 million Americans who live with a chronic illness, Nitika is committed to empowering others like her to share their stories and comb...

In recent years, there has been much discussion over the ways substance use disorders — particularly alcohol use disorders — have manifested themselves around the world. This has been acutely clear since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the overall global burden of disease and injury is attributed to alcohol at 5.1%.  What are we...

Dr. David Fajgenbaum understands better than most what it is like to live on both sides of medicine. He has been both patient and caregiver, taking his experiences over the past 13 years to inform his work as a rare disease advocate and innovator, working to find ways to unlock the potential of existing drugs and repurpose them as new treatment solutions. Back in 2010, when he was a third-year med...

Dr. Kelsey Holt, a social and behavioral scientist whose research portfolio is dedicated to identifying ways to promote equity and 'person-centeredness' within the sexual and reproductive health field, joins our host -- journalist Brian Mastroianni -- to discuss why it's so vital we center reproductive health access and rights in global health today. Access for women, in particular, to...

Dr. Marci Bowers, a U.S.-based medical pioneer in gender affirmation surgery, joins our host, journalist Brian Mastroianni, in a conversation about how we can break down entrenched structural barriers and persistent stigma that transgender and gender diverse people face in healthcare globally. Dr. Bowers, the president of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the World Professional Ass...

In conversation with our Special Report on closing the gender health gap, Dr. Mamsallah Faal-Omisore joins our host, journalist Brian Mastroianni, in a discussion on how we can better support female healthcare workers in conflict settings around the world. The Clinical Director for Primary Care International (PCI), Dr. Faal-Omisore is a general practitioner and family physician who divides her tim...

Our Podcast Host, Brian Mastroianni recaps Season 1 and highlights what we can expect from this upcoming season. Expect to hear from us every other Wednesday! You can find more of Re:solve Global Health at: Our website:  https://www.re-solveglobalhealth.com/ LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/re-solveglobalhealth/ Twitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/resolve_gh

Closing the gender health gap requires us to address often overlooked diseases that disproportionately affect women. That is why in this episode, we are fortunate to have Jenneh Rishe as our guest, who shares her personal experience as a patient and as the founder of The Endometriosis Coalition. Endometriosis affects roughly 200M women worldwide, but is still deprioritized and stigmatized. What ca...

In this episode, we speak to Rajat Jain, manager of projects at DakshamA Health, an Indian NGO that aims to empower patients and caregivers with the right tools, knowledge, and forums to seek and access to healthcare options. We discuss the role our environment is having in our health, and our societies. How will continued environmental degradation – loss of natural habitats, rising sea-levels, in...

*To listen to the episode in English, we interviewed Dr. Johanna Contreras in our episode titled 4. How can we prevent the high incidence of maternal mortality in Latin America?* Para nuestro primer episodio en español, invitamos a las doctoras Ana Múnera y Claudia Almonte, que han estado trabajando para crear más conciencia sobre las disparidades en la atención sanitaria materna en Latinoamerica....

What are the challenges that mothers in Latin America must face? And how do we re:solve them?  Today we are joined by Dr. Johanna Contreras, founding member of the American Heart Association and an associate professor at The Mount Sinai hospital in New York City. Dr. Johanna is spreading awareness of disparities in maternal health care, and the link between maternal and cardiovascular health...

Today, we are joined by Dr. Ernest Darkoh-Ampem from BroadReach group, a globally recognized leader in healthcare management. Among his many roles, he previously served as a member of the USA president advisory council on HIV and AIDS. Hence, we would hardly find a more suitable person to give us more insights into the global HIV epidemic and where we are in hitting our 2030 targets. What challeng...

This episode focuses on ensuring social corporate responsibility through a metric system that will be rolling out in Q1 2023. Health journalist and host Brian Mastroianni sat down to talk with Dr Andrea Feigl, Founder and CEO of the Health Finance Institute (HFI), to learn more about this impact grading. HFI developed a health credit system, to attribute points to companies in regards of them cont...

Hello from Re:solve Global Health to all global health aficionados out there! For our first episode, we dig into long COVID. For most, coronavirus (COVID-19) feel better within a few days or weeks of their symptoms and fully recover within 12 weeks. For others, symptoms can last longer. This condition is now officially called long COVID or post-COVID-19 syndrome and is still under study.  To...