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 

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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

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

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.

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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

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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.

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Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

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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?

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Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

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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/

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Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

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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/

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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)

The COVID-19 pandemic taught us a lot of things, first and foremost, how do we best prepare for the inevitable next time? Today, we speak with Dr. Patrick Doohan on the topic of Pandemic Preparedness, and the leading new research on investing for future pandemics.

You can learn more about the workings of the DAEDALUS model that Patrick discusses here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00233-0

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Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

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

We've heard a lot so far about some of the latest technologies, policy making, and global interventions. There's one thing that all of these advancements require however - money. Today, we speak with the Jameel Institute's Deputy Director Prof. Katharina Hauck, for a dive into the world of Health Economics. How do we value health? How do we provide funding? How do we get the most bang-for-our-buck? Find out in this week's episode.

Read more about the newly established The Jameel Institute – Kenneth C Griffin Initiative for the Economics of Pandemic Preparedness: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/240191/jameel-institute-announces-initiative-increase-global/

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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)

Tuberculosis is one of the world's biggest disease burdens, and also one of the most unequal. Depending on where you live in the world, it's either a forgotten relic of a different time, or a daily threat to your life. In this episode, Prof. Nimalan Arinaminpathy talks us through the scale of the TB challenge, and his work in helping End TB.

Read more about the WHO's global End TB targets and strategy here: https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/the-end-tb-strategy

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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)

AI technology is everywhere in the news nowadays. This week, we hear from Tristan Naidoo, one of the Jameel Institute's PhD students, on how he is leveraging the boom in natural language processing for his own research: using social media data from Twitter, to try and understand how the public reacts to adherence measures like lockdown.

Try sentiment analysis for yourself at https://tweetnlp.org/demo/

Read more about the "Perceptron" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron

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Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

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

During a disease outbreak, it's crucial to know how fast a disease is spreading through a population. This week, Dr. Anne Cori talks us through her research - making these rapid assessments of transmissibility easier and more accessible than ever before.

You can explore the software package Anne discusses for yourself at: https://github.com/jstockwin/EpiEstimApp/wiki.

For more information on Anne's research, you can follow her on Twitter at @dr_anne_cori.

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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)

For this first episode, take a look back at the last 30 years of disease outbreak response. See how the field has grown and developed, and how lessons have been learned, as told by a scientist with 30 years of experience working on the front line - Prof. Neil Ferguson.

See the 2023 UK's National Risk Register here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-risk-register-2023

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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)

Introducing JameelCast, the podcast showcasing the latest public health research, from the scientists themselves. This limited series will explore Disease Forecasting, AI Technologies, Health Economics, Pandemic Preparedness and more.

Subscribe now to catch every episode.

You can find out more about the Jameel Institute at our website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jameel-institute

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Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity

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