Transmission

Imagine waking up one day feeling like your bones are breaking... Bone-break fever, or dengue, is a growing global threat fuelled by the climate crisis and urbanisation. In this episode, we uncover the creative, local and collective solutions needed to fight this disease, while the mosquitos that spread it are doing their best to outsmart us.

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This episode features:

• Ruth Müller, biologist and entomologist, Head of the Unit of Entomology (ITM)
• Veerle Vanlerberghe, epidemiologist and education coordinator at Department of Public Health (ITM)
• Jakke (Jan) Van Den Abbeele, parasitologist and insect molecular biologist, Head of the Unit of Trypanosoma (ITM)
• Francesca Falconi, ITM alumna, microbiologist at Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru

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Strategy & Creation: Onlyhumans

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Urbanisation, ageing, climate change, a new pandemic... How we can prepare our health systems if we don't know what's going to hit them next? The answer lies within all of us: we must become more resilient.

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This episode features:

• Lenka Beňová, maternal health expert, Head of the Unit of Maternal and Reproductive Health (ITM)
• Saleh Aljadeeah, pharmacist and researcher, Unit of Pharmaceutical Public Health (ITM)
• Bruno Marchal, health care organisation specialist, Head of the Unit of Health Systems Organisation (ITM)
• Prashanth N Srinivas, medical doctor and researcher, Head of Institute of Public Health (IPH) in Bengaluru, India

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Strategy & Creation: Onlyhumans

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When buying medication, we don't usually ask ourselves, "Is this going to be effective?" or "Is it safe?" Yet all over the world, people worry about the quality of health products and care they get. And rightly so. Follow our researchers as they fight this injustice, and discover "the canary in the coal mine" of our health care system.

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This episode features:

• Lenka Beňová, maternal health expert, Head of the Unit of Maternal and Reproductive Health (ITM)
• Raffaella Ravinetto, pharmacy expert, Head of Department of Public Health (ITM)
• Christelle Boyi Honsou, medical doctor and researcher, Centre of Research in Human Reproduction and Demography (CERRHUD), Benin

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Racism, conflict, lack of funding, transportation issues, lifestyle or stigma: there are a lot of factors that can keep people from getting the care and medication they need. In this episode, we explore those hurdles all over the world, taking you from Belgium to Zambia.

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This episode features:

• Lenka Beňová, maternal health expert, Head of the Unit of Maternal and Reproductive Health (ITM)
• Christopher Kenyon, medical doctor and STI expert, Head of the Unit of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ITM)
• Saleh Aljadeeah, pharmacist and researcher, Unit of Pharmaceutical Public Health (ITM)
• Raffaella Ravinetto, pharmacy expert, Head of Department of Public Health (ITM)
• Bernadette (Bernie) Hensen, epidemiologist, Head of the Unit of Sexual health including HIV (ITM)
• Prashanth N Srinivas, medical doctor and researcher, Head of Institute of Public Health (IPH) in Bengaluru, India
• Tim Devriese, journalist

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Strategy & Creation: Onlyhumans

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If we imagine a health system as a box, then what would it contain? And what happens if it gets shaken – by a conflict, a pandemic or even something as seemingly unrelated as structural traffic jams? Join us, as we travel from the Syrian war zone to a remote Indian community fighting addiction... with frisbees.

For more information on Transmission, go to www.itg.be/podcast.

This episode features:

• Lenka Beňová, maternal health expert, Head of the Unit of Maternal and Reproductive Health (ITM)
• Bruno Marchal, health care organisation specialist, Head of the Unit of Health Systems Organisation (ITM)
• Christopher Kenyon, medical doctor and STI expert, Head of the Unit of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ITM)
• Saleh Aljadeeah, pharmacist and researcher, Unit of Pharmaceutical Public Health (ITM)
• Prashanth N Srinivas, medical doctor and researcher, Head of Institute of Public Health (IPH) in Bengaluru, India
• Tim Devriese, journalist

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Strategy & Creation: Onlyhumans

Creation & Production: Sonhouse

Narrator: Lara Chedraoui