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pharmaphorum PodcastWhere innovation meets collaboration: Live from Manchester’s City labs 4.0In healthcare, some of the most meaningful innovations happen when the right people are brought together in the right place. True progress depends on systems and infrastructure designed to connect ideas, people, and expertise across sectors.
Citylabs 4.0, now open in the heart of Manchester’s Knowledge Quarter on the Oxford Road Corridor, was built with exactly that goal in mind. Bringing the NHS, academia, and life sciences organisations into close, purposeful proximity, providing a structural foundation for collaboration at scale.
In this special live recording of the pharmaphorum podcast, developed in association with Bruntwood SciTech, Br...
2025-06-0538 min
15 Minutes on Health Inequalities5.2 Lessons from 30 years of health inequality researchAlastair Leyland, Anna Pearce and Ruth Dundas discuss the important lessons learned from the past 30 years of health inequality research.Podcast episode mentioned: 3.3 Health Inequalities ReportFurther reading mentioned in the episode:Link BG, Phelan J. Social conditions as fundamental causes of disease. J Health Soc Behav. 1995;Spec No:80-94. PMID: 7560851.Hilary Graham. Social determinants and their unequal distribution: clarifying policy understandings. Milbank Q. 2004;82(1):101-24. doi: 10.1111/j.0887-378x.2004.00303.x. Whitehead M, Popay J. Swimming upstream? Taking action on the social...
2025-05-1411 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities5.1 Multimorbidity: definitions, challenges and implications for public health and health inequalitiesMultimorbidity: definitions, challenges and implications for public health and health inequalities – a discussion for European Public Health WeekIn this special edition of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, marking European Public Health Week, Anna Pearce talks to Fran O’Leary, Alistair Carr, and Phil Broadbent who are health professionals carrying out PhDs at the University of Glasgow to tackle some of our most pressing issues related to multi-morbidity.
2025-05-1418 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities4.6 Impact of Universal Basic Income on mental health inequalitiesRuth Dundas and Lia Demou speak to Rachel Thomson about her research evaluating the impacts of universal basic income on mental health inequalities. Rachel discusses why it is important to evaluate the impact of economic policies on health and why she used a microsimulation approach to do that. The paper mentioned in this podcast is: Thomson RM, Kopasker D, Bronka P, Richiardi M, Khodygo V, Baxter AJ, Igelström E, Pearce A, Leyland AH. and Katikireddi SV. (2024) Short-term impacts of Universal Basic Income on population mental health inequalities in the UK: a microsimulation modelling study. PLoS Med...
2025-04-2316 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities4.5 Next generation: Public health of today and tomorrowIn this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Ruth Dundas hears from four PhD students about the future of public health. The conversation is with Katja Kraljević, Danny Bradford, Kirsten Hainey and Diego Andrade about their perspectives on the future of public health as part of European Public Health Week 2024 and the daily theme, "Next generation: Public health of today and tomorrow". The project mentioned in this podcast is: NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Social and Environmental Determinants of Health InequalitiesVisit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website.Fo...
2025-04-2314 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities4.4 Inequalities in Childhood OverweightIn this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce, Vittal Katikireddi and Phil Broadbent discuss their research on inequalities in childhood overweight as part of European Public Health Week 2024, to coincide with Thursday’s theme, “Health through the life course: Breaking down silos”.The papers discussed in this podcast are: Broadbent, P., Shen, Y., Pearce, A. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) Trends in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity prevalence: a repeat cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England. Archives of Disease in Childhood. https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/233 Miall, N. and Pearce, A. (2024) Growing up in Sc...
2025-04-2316 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities4.3 Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Inequalities (SEDHI)As part of the Wednesday theme of European Public Health Week 2024 “Planetary health: a glocal approach”, Alastair Leyland from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, talks to Natalia Romero, International University of Ecuador; Phil Cooper, St George’s University of London; and Mauricio Barreto and Gustavo Matta, CIDACS-Fiocruz. They discuss their NIHR-funded Global Health Research Unit on the Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Inequalities (SEDHI) and how they hope to influence policy to reduce health inequalities in Brazil and Ecuador. Visit the SEDHI website to find out more.Follow...
2025-04-2319 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities4.2 Drug deaths and socio-economic trends in ScotlandTrends in drug deaths and socio-economic determinants in Scotland: which age groups and birth cohorts are most effected? In this special episode, in honour of European Public Health Week’s theme “Health is a Political Choice”, Anna Pearce, Denise Brown and Emma Congreve discuss work, funded by the Health Foundation, exploring trends in drug deaths and socio-economic determinants in Scotland: https://fraserofallander.org/?post_type=publications&p=46814The other publications mentioned in this podcast are: Trends in Health Inequalities in Scotland Trends in the socio-economic determinants of health in Scotland Health inequalities in Scotland: An indepen...
2025-04-2315 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities4.1 Universal basic incomeIn this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce and Vittal Katikireddi speak to Marcia Gibson about her work on Universal Basic Income as part of European Public Health Week 2024, which this year has the overall focus “Health is a political choice”. The papers discussed in this podcast are: Gibson, M. (2023) Basic income is a popular idea, but small pilots cannot produce generalisable evidence. British Medical Journal, 383, p. 2304 https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2304 Gibson, M. , Hearty, W. and Craig, P. (2020) The public health effects of interventions similar to basic income: a scoping review. Lancet P...
2025-04-2315 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities3.7 Healthy Start vouchers evaluationIn this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce and Lia Demou speak to Ruth Dundas about her evaluation of the Healthy Start vouchers scheme. Read the full report about the Healthy Start vouchers. Find out more about Growing Up in Scotland and the Infant Feeding Survey. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter.
2025-04-2313 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities3.6 Baby Boxes in Finland and ScotlandIn this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Ronan McCabe talks to Anna Pearce and Alastair Leyland about his recent work evaluating the impacts of the introduction of Baby Boxes in Finland and Scotland. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter.
2025-04-2310 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities3.5 Ethnic inequalities and COVID-19To mark ‘Diversity in Health’ day during European Public Health Week, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce have a conversation with Vittal Katikireddi about a framework for understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes. You can read more about the framework in the open access paper discussed in the episode. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter.
2025-04-2313 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities3.4 Universal creditAs part of European Public Health Week’s ‘Mental Health for All’ day, 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities hosts Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce chat to Peter Craig about a recently commenced evaluation looking at the impacts of Universal Credit on mental health. You can read more about the study in the freely available protocol.Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter.
2025-04-2316 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities3.3 Health Inequalities ReportIn this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Naomi Miall, Gillian Fergie and Anna Pearce discuss their recently published report looking at trends in health inequalities in Scotland. You can find out more on the report website. Thanks to the commissioners of this report, the Health Foundation, as well as our many expert advisors and stakeholders. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter.
2025-04-2315 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities3.2 Maternal and Child Health network (MatCHNet)Ruth Dundas, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce discuss the Maternal and Child Health network (MatCHNet) – including its aims, challenges, progress to date and next steps. You can visit the MatCHNet website to sign up to join the network and to find out more information, including policy briefings on welfare grants in pregnancy and early childhood, early years education and childcare, Universal Credit and welfare policies, data briefings, methods briefings, and recordings of webinars. More information on UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP), the network’s funders, can be found on their website.Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Publ...
2025-04-2316 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities3.1 Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS)In this 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities podcast Ruth Dundas and Anna Pearce chat to Mirjam Allik and Edit Gedeon about their recently published findings on the health of care experienced children in Scotland. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website.Follow us on Twitter.Follow CHiCS on Twitter
2025-04-2312 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities2.4 The mental health of carersAlastair Leyland and Lia Demou talk to Elise Whitley about her work investigating the mental health of carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown in the UK.
2025-04-2316 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities2.3 Vaccine waningAlastair Leyland and Anna Pearce speak to Vittal Katikireddi from the SPHSU about his work examining waning of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
2025-04-2315 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities2.2 Creative Insights studyMike Green and Anna Pearce speak to Gillian Fergie and Caroline Vaczy about Creative Insights – their participatory project to gain young people’s perspectives on health inequalities.
2025-04-2316 min
Conversations in Fetal MedicineIn conversation with Professor Lucilla Poston - recorded live at RCOG Annual Academic Meeting! Bonus episodeSend us a textWelcome to a special bonus episode! Recorded live at the RCOG Annual Academic Meeting in January 2024, organised by the Blair Bell Research Society. Join us in conversation with Professor Lucilla Poston, co-hosted with the fabulous Dr Neil Ryan (a clinical academic and subspecialty trainee in gynae-oncology). This is also a chance to celebrate the RCOG Annual Academic Meeting and learn a bit more about the Blair Bell Research Society. With thanks to the RCOG and BBRS for permission to share the recording. Professor Poston's bio:h...
2024-08-2452 min
The Death Studies PodcastDr Hazel Marzetti on suicide, LBGT+ mental health, suicide in/as politics, qualitative health research and critical suicide studiesWhat's the episode about?
In this episode, hear Dr. Hazel Marzetti discuss suicide, LBGT+ mental health, suicide in/as politics, qualitative health research and critical suicide studies as well as collective care and peer support in death studies research.
Who is Hazel?
Hazel Marzetti is a post-doctoral Research Associate in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Health in Social Sciences.
She currently works on the Leverhulme Trust funded Suicide in/as Politics project which uses qualitative, critical, and arts-based research methods to explore how suicide is represented and used in the...
2023-05-031h 13
Systems Science in Public Health Podcast8. Petra Meier in conversation with Magda CerdáOur guest for episode 8 is Professor Magda Cerdá, a Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
2022-11-1521 minSystems Science in Public Health Podcast7. Petra Meier in conversation with Pete Barbrook-JohnsonOur guest for episode 7 is Dr Pete Barbrook-Johnson, a Departmental Research Lecturer in the Economics of Environmental Change at the University of Oxford.
2022-10-1920 minSystems Science in Public Health Podcast6. Petra Meier in conversation with Birgit KopainskyOur guest for episode 6 is Birgit Kopainsky, Professor in system dynamics at the University of Bergen, Norway.
2022-09-1325 min
Systems Science in Public Health PodcastProfessor Petra Meier on the UofG Spotlight podcastProfessor Petra Meier appeared on Episode 29 of the UofG Spotlight podcast to discuss her work on economic inequalities and health outcomes and the need for a system-wide view at tackling challenges of poverty, health and sustainability.
2022-06-0121 minSystems Science in Public Health Podcast5. Petra Meier in conversation with Nigel GilbertOur guest for episode 5 is one of the founders of modern computational sociology, Nigel Gilbert.
2022-05-0522 minSystems Science in Public Health Podcast4. Petra Meier in conversation with Patricia L. MabryPetra Meier speaks to Patricia L. Mabry - an interdisciplinary scientist who applies cutting edge methodologies to research questions in healthcare, science of science, tobacco control, and health disparities.
2022-05-0526 minSystems Science in Public Health Podcast3. Petra Meier in conversation with Robin PurshousePetra Meier speaks to Robin Purshouse, who is a Professor of Decision Sciences at the University of Sheffield.
2022-05-0534 minSystems Science in Public Health Podcast2. Petra Meier in conversation with Brian CastellaniPetra Meier speaks to Brian Castellani who is a Professor of Sociology at Durham University.
2022-05-0530 minSystems Science in Public Health Podcast1. Petra Meier in conversation with Jo-An OcchipintiPetra catches up with Professor Jo-An Occhipinti who is Head of the Systems Modelling, Simulation and Data Science at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Australia.
2022-05-0522 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities2.1 Inequalities in childhood unintentional injuriesPaul Henery, a Research Assistant at SPHSU, talks to Linsay Gray and Michael Green about his work on social inequalities in childhood unintentional injuries.
2022-05-0518 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities1.8 Recap, previewMarking European Public Health Week ‘Leaving no one behind’ Day, this special edition reflects back over 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities first year of podcasts and looks forward to some research that the Inequalities in Health programme will be covering over the forthcoming year.
2022-05-0515 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities1.7 The impact of smoke-free prisons on exposure to second hand smokeRuth Dundas and Alastair Leyland talk to Evangelia Demou about her paper evaluating the impact of smoke-free prisons on exposure to second hand smoke.
2022-05-0515 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities1.6 How effective was England’s teenage pregnancy strategy?Andy Baxter talks to Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce about his evaluation of the English teenage pregnancy strategy.
2022-05-0516 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities1.5 Did UK tobacco control policies alter inequalities in youth smokingLinsay Gray and Anna Pearce talk to Michael Green about his recent paper evaluating the impacts of tobacco control policies on inequalities in young people’s smoking in the UK.
2022-05-0517 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities1.4 Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS) studyRuth Dundas and Anna Pearce talk to colleagues Denise Brown and Mirjam Allik about an exciting project they have recently embarked upon - the Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS) study.
2022-05-0512 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities1.3 Mitigating adverse health effects of COVID-19 responseAlastair Leyland and Anna Pearce from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit talk to Vittal Katikireddi about his recent publication, “Mitigating the wider health effects of COVID-19 pandemic response”.
2022-05-0517 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities1.2 Mortality from social determinants vs COVID-19Anna Pearce and Linsay Gray from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit talk to Ruth Dundas about the blog post 'Prioritising population health - contrasting UK government responses to pandemic'.
2022-05-0517 min15 Minutes on Health Inequalities1.1 Reducing health inequities in the early yearsAnna Pearce talks to Ruth Dundas and Alastair Leyland about a WHO Europe report she wrote, with fellow authors at the University of Liverpool, on options for reducing inequities in health in the early years.
2022-05-0519 min
The Mental Health Podcast#mhTV episode 14 - How can nurses and nursing best respond to #COVID19...In this weeks episode [originally broadcast on Thursday 20 August 2020] regular presenters Vanessa Garrity and Nicky Lambert were joined by guest Amrit Kaur Purba to discuss how can nurses and nursing best respond to #COVID19 and other health protection issues.
Amrit is a registered nurse with a masters in public health. She is a PhD researcher at MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
Some Twitter links to follow presenters and guests are:
VG - https://twitter.com/VanessaRNMH
NL - https://twitter.com/niadla
AKP - https://twitter.com/AmritKPurba
Credits:
Presenters: Vanessa Garrity & Nicky...
2020-08-2159 min
The Science of Sex#44 – What’s Your Number?In Episode 44, Dr. Kirstin Mitchell returns to talk to Dr. Zhana and Joe about the differences between sexual partners reported by men and women.
It’s been an age-old question: Do men really have more sexual partners than women? Or are there other reasons for men reporting twice as many partners as women on average? Joe thinks it’s as simple as “they’re all lying,” but the answers are slightly more complicated. Tune in to find out how sampling, counting as well as some degree of misreporting play into the vast perceived difference between men and women’s “n...
2018-10-1638 minThe Science of Sex#10 – How Common Are Sexual Problems?How common are sexual problems and when should they be cause for concern?
On this week’s episode, Joe and Dr. Zhana speak with Dr. Kirstin Mitchell about her research on sexual function and dysfunction. Dr. Mitchell is a Senior Research Fellow at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, where she leads a theme of research on Families and Intimate & Sexual Relationships. We spoke with her about a few studies that she has published in regards to sexual dysfunction.
About Our Guest
Over the last 3 years, several st...
2017-12-0153 min