Salt, Potassium, and Prevention: A New Approach to Heart Health

This bitesize episode features Dr Elisa Pineda, a researcher working at the forefront of nutrition and chronic disease prevention. Elisa shares new insights into how simple dietary changes—like swapping regular salt for potassium‑enriched salt—could significantly reduce high blood pressure and the …

Inside the Heat in Pregnancy Study – India

This bitesize episode features Gabriela Cipriano Flores, a public health researcher exploring how extreme heat affects pregnant women in India. Gabby shares the story behind the Heat in Pregnancy study, the groundbreaking cohort research underway across three climate‑diverse regions, and what the t…

Surgery or Therapy? The METEOR2 Debate

In this episode of The Scan, we speak with Registered Nurse and Associate Project Manager Clare Goodson and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Professor Andrew Metcalfe about the METEOR2 Study—a major international clinical trial investigating the most effective treatment for people experiencing persis…

From Numbers to Narratives - Why Stories Matter in Global Health Research

In this episode, host Sarah Iqbal explores the role of stories in global health research through the context of work of the NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases and Environmental Change. While data and numbers can show us what is happening, they don’t always reveal why. …

Ubuntu Reflections 2 - Unpacking barriers and facilitators to cross-cultural sense making for building equitable health research partnerships

In this episode, Dr Deepika Saluja speak with Dr Kefilath Bello about how impactful research and research partnership requires an intentional sense-making process that connects and respects diverse cultural contexts. Kefi highlights through examples, that the willingness to engage with communities …

Ubuntu Reflections 1 - Research Partnerships: Gatekeepers, Champions, and the Allure of Going Rogue

In this episode, Dr Kenneth Yakubuspeaks with Dr Seye Abimbola to explore the everyday dynamics of building an equitable research partnership in Africa. Seye outlines different characteristics of research partnerships, and unpack the practical challenges around being a champion, along with the lang…

Beyond the Body - When Tax Becomes a Tool of Abuse - Unpacking Economic Abuse and Financial Control

Series: Beyond the Body: Women’s wellbeing- science, equity & impact In this powerful episode, host Professor Amanda Henry is joined by co-host Associate Professor Mehera San Roque and guest Associate Professor Ann Kayis-Kumar to explore how economic abuse — a form of coercive control — plays out …

Beyond the Body: Caring & Careers - The hidden load of carers

Series: Beyond the Body: Women’s wellbeing- science, equity & impact In this episode, host Professor Amanda Henry speaks with Associate Professor Lizzie Muller about the often invisible world of carers — who they are, what they do, and why care work remains a deeply gendered issue. Drawing on pers…

Beyond the Body: Not One-Size-Fits-All - How Sex and Gender shape our health

Series: Beyond the Body: Women’s wellbeing- science, equity & impact In this first episode, host Professor Amanda Henry is joined by Professor Bronwyn Graham, Director of the National Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine, to explore why sex and gender matter in health and medica…

Is the Hypertension Polypill the breakthrough we need for global blood pressure control?

Description: This episode of The Scan features Professor Alta Schutte and Professor Anthony Rodgers discussing one of the world’s biggest health challenges, and a potentially life changing new solution. Around 1.3 billion people live with hypertension (high blood pressure); most live in low- and mi…