GHW Podcast Episode 7: Universal Health Coverage
The final episode of the GHW6 podcast series features Remco Van de Pas and Sulakshana Nandi, two long-stand
The sixth episode of the GHW6 podcast series features Lauren Paremoer and Ronald Labonté, addressing the issue of new trade treaties and their potential threats to public health. Showing concrete examples, they show how these treaties tighten reins on policy measures governments might take that could inhibit trade, with new rules on how future regulations should be developed, including allowing or even mandating the involvement of corporate actors from other countries.
On our fifth episode of the GHW6 podcast series features Charlotte Dreger from FIAN International, a global human rights organization that advocates for the right to adequate food and nutrition, Magdalena Ackermann from the Society for Internationmal Development (SID), and Isabel Álvarez Vispo, Co-president of Urgenci, an international grassroot network of all forms of regional and Local Solidar
The fourth episode of the GHW6 podcast series features Roman Gnagi and Catia Confortini, members of Medact, a UK-based organization affiliated with PHM and co-producer of the Global Health Watch series. Together with other Medact members, they wrote a chapter in Global Health Watch 6 analyzing the relations between war, conflict, peace, and health, and the impact of Covid-19 in countries affected by conflict.
The third episode of the GHW6 podcast series features Sarojini Nadimpally, coordinator for Health for All Campaign of the People’s Health Movement and a founder of SAMA Resource Group for Women and Health, an India based women’s organisation. Together with Neelanjana Das, Aakriti Pasricha and Adsa Fatima – fellow members of SAMA, Sarojini co- authored a chapter in Global Health Watch 6 analyzing the gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on South Asia.
The second episode of the GHW6 podcast series features Amulya Nidhi, national Co-convenor at PHM India and a member of the PHM Steering Council and the PHM thematic circle on environment and ecosystem health. The circle collectively wrote a chapter in Global Health Watch 6 knitting together experiences of environmental devastation and people’s resistance worldwide.
Featuring Ronald Labonté, a global health expert and co-editor of GHW6, this episode explores the global political and economic architecture and its structural role in shaping health determinants worldwide. It also analyzes the (unequal) impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and sheds light on the possible routes for a healthier, more just and more sustainable world.
The final episode of the GHW6 podcast series features Remco Van de Pas and Sulakshana Nandi, two long-stand