The Meaning of Health Podcast

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. In this episode we speak with the head of the School of Population and Global Health at UWA, Professor Colleen Fisher. We have an interesting conversation with Colleen about her career in research, focusing mostly on family and domestic violence. We discuss the work that Colleen has done with migrant communities in particular, and how...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. In this episode, we chat with Professor Jo Badcock, a psychologist and researcher from the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia, and the Perth Voices Clinic. Professor Badcock’s work focuses on people who hear voices, also known as auditory hallucinations, with a particular focus on how this group is i...

Hello and welcome to episode 20 of the Meaning of Health! We are joined by Doug MacFarlane from the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia for this episode. Doug chats with us about the road he took to end up doing a PhD into the Psychology of Health Misinformation which he is currently completing. Doug’s story is unique and has led him to do some interesting work o...

In this episode we talk with Dr Andrew Davies, CEO and founder of Homeless Healthcare and Associate Professor Wood, who works closely with Homeless Healthcare to evaluate the impact of its services and build evidence to improve health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. The episode includes a chat about the additional challenges the COVID-19 pandemic poses for people who are homeless, w...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. We talk to infectious diseases expert Dr Barbara Nattabi in this episode. We discuss what infectious diseases are, and how they can spread throughout the population. Barbara also discusses the COVID-19 pandemic with us in detail, and gives us her view on how the situation is being handled by health authorities, and the part that we can...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. In this episode we have the privilege of sitting down with Dr David McCutcheon, an emergency consultant at Royal Perth Hospital. We chat extensively about what life is like working in the emergency department, and some of the challenges that doctors face dealing with patients with complex medical needs. We also touch on some of the int...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. For this episode we have a chat with Jeannie, Alex and Ellie from the 100 Families project. 100 Families is a project that seeks to help people and families experiencing entrenched disadvantage. The project conducts research to learn more about the circumstances that people doing it tough in our community are facing, and then uses that...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. In this episode your hosts Courtney and Craig interview each other about their respective PhD projects and provide a bit of background about what they are studying and why. We hope you enjoy the conversation. Feel free to get in touch meaningofhealth@outlook.com or @healthmeanswhat on Twitter

Thank you for checking out The Meaning of Health Podcast. Just a quick mention that if you are looking for our COVID-19 related episode you can find it here https://soundcloud.com/meaningofhealth/episode-18-covid-19 Hello and Welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. In this episode we chat with Kai Schweizer from the Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia. Kai is an expert in LGBTQ...

Hello and welcome to epsiode 13 of the Meaning of Health. In this episode we have 3 guests on the podcast, Maddie Ford, Treasure Agenson, and Julian Ming, who all completed honours projects at the School of Population and Global Health at UWA in 2019. They discuss their projects with us in detail, and reflect on the process of completing honours. They also update us on where they are heading with...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. In this episode we chat with UWA School of Population and Global Health alumnus Prof Mark Stevenson from the University of Melbourne. Mark is an expert in Urban Transport and Public Health and has worked at many places around the world over the course of his career. We talk with Mark extensively about a number of different aspects of t...

Hello and welcome to our special Christmas episode of the Meaning of Health, where we focus on a selection of more light-hearted studies that were published in the Medical Journal of Australia’s Christmas issue. We finish off with a discussion of what we felt were some of the big health issues in 2019, and what we think will be some of the big issues in 2020 (and beyond). Apologies to any baby boo...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. In this episode we are fortunate to chat with Professor Merrick Zwarenstein who visited Perth recently to run a short course on pragmatic randomised trials, something that he does across a number of countries, as well as contributing to the development for reporting tools for randomised trials such as CONSORT and consulting to the WHO....

Helllo and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. This week Courtney has a chat with Dr Emily Atkins, a cardiovascular disease researcher from the George Institute in Sydney. Courtney and Emily discuss a range of different projects that Emily has worked or is working on. You can read more about some of the work Emily is doing here: https://sydney.edu.au/research/volunteer-for-researc...

Hello and welcome to another episode of The Meaning of Health. This episode was recorded at the Telethon Kids Institute, with Courtney joining in remotely from Sydney. We have an in depth chat with Hayley Passmore and Natalie Kippin, both PhD candidates who work in the area of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), an emerging area that until recently has not been well understood. During the conv...

Hello and welcome to another episode of The Meaning of Health. This week we delve into the Ig Nobel Prize, a satirical set of awards given each year to research that makes us laugh, and then think just a little bit. A chat that covers such topics as cat ownership and health, whether pizza might just be good for you, and how music might just be good for us in utero. For more information on the Ig N...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. This week's episode is extra special as we interview Ms Aggie Bouckley and Dr Juliana Zabatiero from the Raine Study, a birth cohort study that is celebrating it's 30th anniversary currently! We delve into what a cohort study is and what it is like to manage, developing and maintaining relationships with the participants, and how the s...

Hello and welcome to another episode of The Meaning of Health. This week we are lucky to have a special guest Professor Stuart Kinner from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. Stuart is one of the hardest working and most travelled researchers around, and is working to improve the way we run our prisons, and how hea...

Hello and Welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. This week we have a chat with Dr Karen Martin, a researcher and lecturer from the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Western Australia. Karen has worked in a range of health research areas and is currently working to introduce trauma informed care practice principles into West Australian schools. You can read m...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. Today we discuss the prevention of a range of illnesses and diseases and how this can be done in different ways. We touch on infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases and mental illness, as well as discussing the role that vaccination plays in preventing some diseases. Some links that may be of interest to people looking for more...

In this episode we look at cannabis and what impact it may have on health, particularly mental health. We discuss the pros and cons of making cannabis legally available from a health, research and criminal justice perspective, as well as discussing some of the evidence about cannabis as a possible medicine. Links to more information on cannabis: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/phe/221/alcohol-toba...

This episode looks at some of the cancer screening programs that are available in Australia and explores the success and areas for improvement for each. For additional information on cancer screening you can visit these websites: https://www.cancer.org.au/about-cancer/early-detection/screening-programs/bowel-cancer-screening/ http://www.cancerscreening.gov.au/internet/screening/publishing.nsf/Cont...

Introduction to a new podcast that looks at different areas of health and health research and what it all means for you and your health