S2E2: Access - something worth fighting for

05/30/24 • 32 min

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.

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)
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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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)
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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To learn more about ITM's research on sustainable health systems, visit www.itg.be/health-systems

Strategy & Creation: Onlyhumans

Creation & Production: Sonhouse

Previous Episode

S2E1: Don't take it for granted

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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To learn more about ITM's research on sustainable health systems, visit www.itg.be/health-systems

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Narrator: Lara Chedraoui

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S2E3: In search of quality

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.

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)
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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To learn more about ITM's research on sustainable health systems, visit www.itg.be/health-systems

Strategy & Creation: Onlyhumans

Creation & Production: Sonhouse