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The Lancet Voice is a fortnightly podcast from the Lancet family of journals. Lancet editors and their guests unravel the stories behind the best global health, policy and clinical research...

Manchuria, 1910. An outbreak of a mysterious illness has claimed tens of thousands of lives. But one doctor has a plan to stop it. Niall and...

While cannabis remains illegal at the federal level, almost half of the states of the US have now legalised it for recreational use. But wha...

Gavin is joined once again by Richard and Jessamy for a chat about the latest in global health news and the world of Lancet publications, th...

Those working in clinical trials will recall that in 2025 updates were published for the SPIRIT standard clinical trial protocol items and t...

In this episode Jessamy talks to Iris Blom, a medical doctor and researcher with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and co-cha...

Jessamy is joined by Chloe to co-host as they meet with Dr Mumtaz Patel President of RCP and Consultant nephrologist. Dr. Patel discusses on...

Gavin is joined by Dr. Seth Berkley, former CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to discuss his new book, Fair Doses. Dr. Berkley reflects on...

Gavin is joined once again by Richard and Jessamy as they examine key developments in global health and science. This week's discussion feat...

Gavin welcomes Walter Willett, Shakuntala Thilsted and Johan Rockström to discuss the second EAT-Lancet Commission report. The co-chairs exp...

Scientific research has traditionally treated the male body as the default, resulting in health inequity and poor outcomes for women in a wo...

Gavin, Richard, and Jessamy enter the studio once more for a Lancet Voice chat. A new book on Alzheimer's disease causes controversy across...

Where did the 10,000 steps recommendation come from? Why has it proven so stubborn? What's the science behind the new recommendations? How s...

It’s no exaggeration to say that the past decade has revolutionized how we think about and treat obesity. Drugs like semaglutide (Wegovy) an...

The sustainability of our existence relies on the health of every human, every animal, and the environment we all share. Published today, "T...

Professor Adam Kucharski joins Gavin & Jessamy to discuss the intersection of mathematics, epidemiology, and truth, off the back of his new...

How safe is it to use period tracking and digital contraception apps? Who is your data being shared with? What regulation actually exists in...

Richard, Jessamy, and Gavin reflect on developments at the 78th World Health Assembly, including the passage of the pandemic agreement and s...

Gavin, Richard, and Jessamy return to the studio to discuss some publications that caught their eye this month, and in doing so set themselv...

Gavin and Jessamy welcome Dr. Hugh Alderwick from the Health Foundation to The Lancet Voice as we explore the impact of the Labour governmen...

Gavin and Jessamy welcome back Oksana Pyzik of UCL to talk about the significant impacts of Trump's actions on health infrastructure in Ukra...

Gavin, Richard, and Jessamy reunite for another bonus episode, covering the first three months or so of health in the US under Trump. What d...

Following the discovery of H5N1 influenza of avian origin in a sheep in the UK this week, Gavin is joined by Dr. Abraar Karan of Stanford Un...

Content warning: discussions of sexual assault, violence, and rape How does society handle sexual assault? What are the health implications...

Gavin is joined by Heather Wardle, Professor of Gambling Research and Policy at the University of Glasgow, and the lead commissioner on The...

Donald Trump has taken office in the US and immediately turned his attention to dismantling the US position as a world leader in global heal...

Richard, Gavin, and Jessamy return to the studio for another freeform discussion kicking off with the responsibilities of science and scient...

Where does power lie in global health? What are the historical and systemic barriers that perpetuate inequities, and what is the impact of p...

The last Lancet Voice of the year delves into the latest findings from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) from our recen...

In September 2023, Wales passed legislation making the maximum speed limit 20mph in built-up areas. How are speed limits linked to public he...

What is the impact of systemic racism on public health in New York City? How can we leverage government to meet ambitious goals for improvin...

Gavin, Richard, and Jessamy get into the studio for another bonus episode looking at the launch of the Global Health 2050 report at the Worl...

The US is the richest country in the world, but has some of the most entrenched poverty and associated poor health outcomes. Miriam Sabin (N...

Gavin is joined by Paul Moran (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Bristol and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Bristol Royal Infirmary,...

Jessamy, Gavin, and Richard come together for another bonus episode of The Lancet Voice. A freeform chat covers xenotransplantation, the use...

Ramanan Laxminarayan is the founder and president of the One Health Trust, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Antimicrobial Resista...

In something of a bonus episode, Gavin, Richard, and Jessamy sit down for an informal chat about what's going on in the news, in health, and...

The mpox case surge in Africa has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the WHO. A new clade of the vi...

The first module of the UK's COVID-19 enquiry was published in July 2024. The enquiry found that the UK prepared for the wrong sort of pande...

14 modifiable risk factors account for 45% of dementia cases worldwide. Gavin and Jessamy are joined by Prof. Gill Livingston (UCL) and Prof...

Gavin and Jessamy are joined by Mandeep Dhaliwal, Director of UNDP’s HIV, Health and Development Group, to discuss the access to health and...

Gavin and Jessamy are joined by Oksana Pyzik (UCL, Fight The Fakes Alliance) to discuss how Ozempic/Wegovy/semaglutide works, what becoming...

Anita Zaidi, President of The Gender Equality Division at the Gates Foundation, joins Gavin to discuss women in global health from visibilit...

Gavin and Jessamy are joined by Rupa Sarkar, editor-in-chief of The Lancet Digital Health, to discuss the uses of Large Language Models (LLM...

What are the hidden costs of breast cancer? What advances in breast cancer treatment have been made, and how can we tackle the problematic i...

In our final episode of this collaboration between the Race & Health podcast and The Lancet Voice, intersectionality brings three researcher...

Race and racism are based in history, and how humans thought about the physical differences. Early conceptions of these differences were foc...

Jessamy and Gavin are joined by Prof. Gita Mishra, life course epidemiologist at the University of Queensland, to discuss her work on unders...

Whose knowledge is represented in our health research, policies, and practice? Who is heard, listened to and believed in our health system,...

In 2022, WHO’s African Region saw 233 million cases of malaria, with 580,000 deaths. 80% of those deaths are children under 5. The phase 3 t...

In this episode, Delan Devakumar and guests shed light on how the social construction of race and its operators take a physiological toll of...