The Global Health Histories Podcast
The Global Health Histories Podcast
Podcast Description
The Global Health Histories podcast series seeks to enhance understanding of the historical context of health challenges facing the word today. The podcasts bring historians of international and global health into conversation with medical researchers and policymakers, examining the cultural, economic, political, and social contexts which shaped past health interventions. Each podcast examines a specific case study of contemporary relevance, addressing not only medical research and the prevention or amelioration of disease and debility, but also health-related policy and diplomacy. The series’ aim is to highlight the potential of historical research to aid national and global medical communities in responding to, and communicating about, the challenges of the present in order to shape a healthier future.
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Content Themes
The series emphasizes themes such as global health policy, historical case studies of disease control, and cultural influences on health interventions, with episodes like the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control examining tobacco regulation's historical impact and contemporary relevance.
The Global Health Histories podcast series seeks to enhance understanding of the historical context of health challenges facing the word today. The podcasts bring historians of international and global health into conversation with medical researchers and policymakers, examining the cultural, economic, political, and social contexts which shaped past health interventions. Each podcast examines a specific case study of contemporary relevance, addressing not only medical research and the prevention or amelioration of disease and debility, but also health-related policy and diplomacy. The series’ aim is to highlight the potential of historical research to aid national and global medical communities in responding to, and communicating about, the challenges of the present in order to shape a healthier future.
This episode of the Global Health Histories Podcast features a conversation between Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Head of the School of History and Professor of Medical and Global Heath Histories at the University of Leeds) and Dr. Suranga Dolamulla, focusing on the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) and how it is being implemented in Sri Lanka. Dr. Dolamulla, Director of Laboratory Services and the Medical Research Institute at the Ministry of Health in Sri Lanka, discusses the country’s efforts and challenges in reducing tobacco use. The podcast highlights Sri Lanka’s proactive stance in tobacco control and its significant contributions to global health initiatives.
Additional links
Centre for Global Health Histories
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-groups/1880/centre-for-global-health-histories
Centre for combating tobacco – Tobacco Observatory of Sri Lanka and the Region
https://cct.lk/tobacco-cultivation-in-sri-lanka-past-present-futere/
The Internationalisation of Tobacco Control, 1950-2010 by David Reubi & Virginia Berridge (Cambridge University Press)
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