Professor Joy Lawn is director of the MARCH centre in the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, a paediatrician and leading expert for newborn health worldwide. In this podcast, she discusses her journey developing epidemiological measurement for global newborn deaths and stillbirths, new shifts in large scale implementation and intentionally changing narratives for women in science and leadership, particularly from the global South. Joy also shares her personal journey, growing up in Uganda, working in Ghana, South Africa, in multiple African countries, the US and UK, and the recent death of her husband from a brain tumour.
