The Deonandia Podcast

Dec 1, 2014 — This is episode ten 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 Mona Ahmad and Felicia Danesi. They examined a paper titled, “Improving Universal Precautions and Client Teaching for Rural Health Workers: A Peer-group Intervention“.

Nov 30, 2014 — This is episode nine 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 Narineh Panoosian Carina Saikaley. They have chosen to examine a paper titled, “Screening family planning needs: an operations research project in Guatemala.”

Nov 30, 2014 — This is episode eight 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 Paul Do, Irene Fosu-Apraku, Pooneh Mirzakhalili, and Ahlam Awata. They chose to examine the paper, “Behavior Change Evaluation of a Culturally Consistent Reproductive Health Program f...

Nov 30, 2014 — This is episode seven 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 Gavin Maludzinski, Cara Elliott, Melissa Sutaroski, and Haley Rowlandson. The paper they chose to analyze was “Factors Influencing Chinese Male’s Willingness to Undergo Circumcision:...

Nov 17, 2014 – This is episode six 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 Quinn Howard, Habon Warsame, Ihab Kandil, and Abdiasis Yalahow. The paper they chose to discuss is, “The Effect on Mental Health of […]

Nov 17, 2014 — This is episode five in our continuing series of podcasts produced by the students in my 4th year International Health Theory class.  This installment is brought to us by Khalil Dawod, Sarah Hognestad, Emma Daymond, and Clive Velkers. The paper they analyzed is, “Cup vs bottle feeding for hospitalized late preterm infants […]

Nov 16, 2014 — The latest installment of our special series produced by the students of my 4th year International Health class, today’s episode is brought to us by Danielle Hemet,  Simran Sandhu, Laura Cummings, and Arlanna Pugh. They chose to analyze a paper titled, “Oral misoprostol for preventing postpartum haemorrhage in home births in rural […]

Nov 15, 2014 — Continuing on our special series featuring podcast episodes produced by my 4th year students, today’s episode is by Savroop Kullar and Salma Ibrahim on the topic of Malaria in the South Asian nation of Bhutan. You can access the actual article here.

Nov 14, 2014 — This is the first of a series of special podcast episodes which will feature my students. As part of my 4th year class in International Health Theory, each group (or individual) selected a scholarly paper on an issue in global health and recorded a brief audio dissection of its implications. This episode […]

Nov 14, 2014 — The second installment of our continuing series featuring podcasts from my 4th year international health students, this episode is brought to us by Gabrielle Gareau and Melissa Lavigne. They chose to discuss a paper titled, “The impact of a community intervention to improve cervical cancer screening uptake in the Amazon region of […]

One of my students couldn’t attend today’s lecture on health and climate change, so she asked me to podcast it for her!  So, why not? Slides are available here. This episode also streams from Youtube:

I was invited to an event sponsored by the Canadian Association of Research in Regenerative Medicine and asked to give a brief talk on the topic of my choice. I chose one of my favourite subjects, the philosophy of science. Specifically, I spoke about how personal values become incorporated into scientific work, reflecting the groundbreaking position famously […]

On Oct 22, there was a shooting in the Parliament of Canada.  As a result, the University of Ottawa was in “lockdown” and all classes were cancelled. Unfortunately,  four students and I still showed up. So I gave those four the lecture on “Hunger and Food Security”, recording the audio so I could stream it […]

Yesterday, a gunman murdered an unarmed soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa, then proceeded to shoot up Parliament itself before being killed by one of the Parliamentary constables. The city was in crisis, and parts of it –including the University of Ottawa– were in lockdown. I had just stepped off a plane, but […]

It was more than a year ago that my old friend Adam and I went to Istanbul, Turkey.  While there, I recorded several very brief audio commentaries about the wonderful things I was seeing and experiencing.  It has taken me this long to string those commentaries into an actual produced podcast.  And here it is. […]

On Oct 13, 2014, I was interviewed via Google Hangout by my former student, Caity Jackson, who is now at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. The interview was for the YouTube show, “This Week In Global Health with Dr Greg Martin.” They have kindly permitted me to stream the audio here. There were three separate interviews […]

On Oct 12, 2014 I was interviewed on CKNW radio in Vancouver, on the Sean Leslie Show, interviewed by guest host Squire Barnes.  The topic was Ebola, based on my recent article in The Huffington Post. The audio of my interview can be found on CKNW’s Soundcloud site. In addition, you can download it here in MP3 format.  The edited version for my podcast [&#82...

On Oct 6, 2014, I gave a lecture to my 4th year International Health Theory class about the “missing girls of India”, the millions of unborn Indian girls removed from the projected population through generations of sex selective abortion. My talk was based on the landmark paper by Prabhat Jha titled, “Trends in selective abortions of girls in […]

On Sep 24, 2014, I gave a presentation to a doctoral class at the Institute of Population Health at the University of Ottawa about shifting paradigms of Epidemiology, public and population health sciences.  Slides are available here. Thank you to Dr Sanni Yaya for inviting me. PS. The audio is okay. But I burst into maniacal laughter […]

On Sep 13, 2014, I gave a presentation at the Action Global Health Conference at the medical school of the University of Ottawa, on the topic of the future of global health.  Slides from the presentation are available here.

On July 9, 2014, I gave a guest lecture to the University of Ottawa class of Dr Sonia Gulati called, “Special topics in Development studies” (DVM3120).  A PDF of most of the slides I presented are here. Once again, the audio quality is not great, since I wasn’t using a dedicated microphone.  I stopped the recording […]

Assistant Editor of CMAJ, and new Editor in Chief of the CSEB National Newsletter, Erin Russell was kind enough to give a brief workshop to the editors of our student-run journal, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences. Her slides can be accessed here. And please excuse my sloppy audio editing.  It kinda starts and ends abruptly.

May 21, 2014 — Sponsored by the Emerging Health Leaders of Ottawa, this panel presentation was held at the Ottawa Civic Hospital, and featured Dr Jack Kitts, Dr Chris Simpson, Dr Michael Rachlis, and Dr Raywat Deonandan. You can access my slides are here, the official summary is here, and my follow-up blog post, in which I clarify […]

On May 7, 2014, Dr Ron Labonte, Dr Raywat Deonandan and filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock met at the Heart and Crown pub to speak to the public about issues in medical tourism.  The discussion was moderated by Dr Valorie Crooks. The brochure for the event is here. My blog post leading up to the event is here. […]

On April 29, 2014, I gave a one hour webinar for members of the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB).  Details are here. The audio is not the greatest, but it is tolerable.  You can access the slides here.  (Since I’m public about these things, the evaluation and comments submitted by attendees are summarized here.) Access the video dir...