Professor Rashida Ferrand is a Professor of International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Clinical Science and an honorary consultant physician in HIV Medicine. Rashida talks about her work in adolescent health, HIV and sexual and reproductive health, in particular in adolescent HIV in Zimbabwe. She also discusses her focus on supporting PhD students from Africa through leading the Zim-LSHTM Research Partnership. Finally, Rashida talks about her mental health and how she has coped.

Professor Nora Groce is the Leonard Cheshire Chair of Disability and Inclusive Development in UCL. Nora is an anthropologist who works on disability and social justice. She previously ran the global health programme at Yale University before moving to UCL. She has worked on many health issues and human rights documents advocating for people with disabilities and chaired the committee to include disability in the Sustainable Development Goals.

Series 3 is out next month. Ahead of this, here is a chance to get to know some of the Global Health Lives team. What do they think about the podcast? What are they looking forward to? 

Professor David Osrin is a Professor of Global Health at UCL and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science. Dave worked as a clinical paediatrician before conducting large community trials on violence against women and girls, maternal and child nutrition and urban health in Nepal and India. He also talks about his love of art and creating the Dharavi Biennale to showcase the work of local artists. http://www.dharavibiennale.com/#dharavibiennale

Dr Ozge Karadag is a senior research scholar at the Center for Sustainable Development of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. In this episode Ozge talks about her work on migrant health, youth health and peer education as well as the mental healthcare system in Turkey. Ozge then discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and her work as part of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission and the Global Happiness Council.

Professor Jaime Miranda is the Director of CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. In this episode Jaime talks about his work on non-communicable diseases, the importance of human rights, research and population health, and the recent history and the ‘multiple’ Perus, the different countries behind Peru’s national averages and beyond Lima, Peru’s capital. Having established his research career as an exemplar of research capacity building in the field of global health, his story navigates from professional challenges to personal failures, including the ‘amputation’ he felt given the sudden loss of his mother, and recently his father.

Dr Bhargavi Rao is the malaria infectious disease expert at Médecins Sans Frontières and an Associate Professor in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Bhargavi describes her career as a clinician and public health doctor in infectious diseases. She talks about her work on HIV in South Africa, malaria infectious disease modelling and debates around humanitarianism. In addition, she discusses coping with ill health and personal losses in her family.

Professor Michael Knipper is a medical doctor and anthropologist and is a Professor of Global Health, Migration and Medical Humanities at Giessen University Medical School in Germany. In this episode Michael talks about his work with Indigenous people in South America, migration and on taking a human rights approach to health.

Ms Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. She is famous for her two best-selling books: 'Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong' and 'Superior: The Return of Race Science'. In this podcast she discusses these books and her journalism, as well as her own experiences of racism. 

Quick update on Global Health Lives. We are taking a break but will be back soon.