This episode brings you further highlights from the speakers at our 2024 Symposium, on the theme of "Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies". Here in part 2, we present the panel discussion bringing together specialists with extensive real world experience of delivering healthcare in emergency settings. Speakers include:

• Olivier le Polain | Unit Head, Acute Events Analytics, Health Emergencies Programme, WHO
• Rachael Cummings | Humanitarian Director, Save The Children
• Oksana Lovochkina | CEO Ukrainian Medical Charity
• Marine Vignon | European Partnerships Director, ALIMA
• Sian White | CEO, UKHIH

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @imperial-jameel.bsky.social. Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street) Recorded and produced by Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)

This episode brings you highlights from the speakers at our 2024 Symposium, on the theme of "Strengthening Health Systems for Emergencies". Maintaining and optimising health systems - the way we deliver health care, is hard enough under normal working conditions. But what about in emergency settings? Pandemics, natural disasters, global conflicts, all introduce unique challenges that we need to work to overcoming.

Speakers include:

• Professor Helena Legido-Quigley | Chair in Health Systems Science, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
• Professor Marisa Miraldo | Professor in Health Economics and Policy, Business School, Imperial College London
• Dr Margherita Molaro | Research Fellow, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
• Dr Oliver Watson | Lecturer, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
• Dr Bhargavi Rao | Clinical Associate Professor, Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @imperial-jameel.bsky.social.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)

This episode, we speak to Dr. Lilith Whittles, about a disease that has recently been, once again, declared a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)". This episode will give you a full update on these latest outbreaks, and everything you might have wanted to ask about Mpox, but didn't know how or where.

You can read more about the WHO's, and Imperial's, work on Mpox here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/255693/mpox-who-experts-respond-questions-current/

For updates as we go, you can follow @Imperial_Jameel and @MRC_Outbreak.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)

We're arriving once again in your podcast feed for a brief glimpse into the room at one of our recent events: "The economics of pandemic preparedness: Trade-offs in peacetime and pandemics". This was an event co-organised and funded by the Imperial College London Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, the Institute of Infection, and The Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation. The day gathered experts across these institutions to sit down and discuss how we can better align health and economic needs for future pandemics.

You'll hear from Prof. Jonathan Haskel of the Bank of England, Prof. Susan Michie - the Director of the Centre for Behavioural Change, and Dr. Els Torreele of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

You can watch the full series of talks and discussions in the event video recording here: https://youtu.be/RZQbYqmk5eE?si=GMsK6sXpgagbt4oL

Other speakers include Prof. Sir John Edmunds from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, the former Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention; and Prof. Edith Patouillard from the World Health Organisation (WHO) Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Even better, we've just published our report from this event, detailing the ideas generated, and how we're going to start addressing the challenges discussed at this event: https://t.co/nOWrO0VKYR

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)

We close out this series of JameelCast with some highlights from our 2023 symposium: "How to reduce the impact of climate change on health - Research evidence on effective intervention." This day event brought together hundreds of stakeholders in academia, business, finance, and industry, to hear more on the cutting edge research into how the world's health will be struck by the climate crisis.

We hear from Prof. Ralf Toumi of the Grantham Institute, Dr. Laure de Preux of the Imperial College Business School, Prof. Frank Kelly of the Environmental Research Group, King's College London, and Dr. Ilaria Dorigatti of Imperial College London.

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

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Today, the tables turn, as Dr. Thom Rawson finds himself on the other side of the interview, introducing his area of expertise, zoonotic diseases - diseases in animals. Most human pandemics begin with an animal disease crossing over to humans. What is the chance of this happening again? What can we do to minimise the risk of this happening?

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Tristan Naidoo & Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)

This World AIDS Day, we hear about the work of Prof. Tim Hallett. From his early work helping inform WHO guidelines and treatment regimens, to his work today in helping strengthen and support wider health systems more holistically.

You can read about the work of Thanzi La Onse here: thanzi.org/ Or learn more about the health system model itself at: tlomodel.org/

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)

One in three adults worldwide suffer from high blood pressure - a non-communicable disease that significantly worsens your outcomes from other diseases too. Today we hear from Dr. Bin Zhou on his research in mapping and understanding the state of the world's hypertension burden, and how that's changed over time.

You can see the output of the NCD-RisC group from their website: https://ncdrisc.org/

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson (t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk)