Re:solve Talks

Closing the gender health gap requires us to address often overlooked diseases that disproportionately affect women. That is why in this episode, we are fortunate to have Jenneh Rishe as our guest, who shares her personal experience as a patient and as the founder of The Endometriosis Coalition. Endometriosis affects roughly 200M women worldwide, but is still deprioritized and stigmatized. What can be done to better raise awareness about endometriosis? How can patients cope with this chronic disease and support each other in the process?

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In this episode, we speak to Rajat Jain, manager of projects at DakshamA Health, an Indian NGO that aims to empower patients and caregivers with the right tools, knowledge, and forums to seek and access to healthcare options.

We discuss the role our environment is having in our health, and our societies. How will continued environmental degradation – loss of natural habitats, rising sea-levels, increased pollution – play a role in the development in NCDs in young people? We touch on topics ranging from mental health to chronic pain, and what we can do to address this as we push to build healthier societies globally.

*To listen to the episode in English, we interviewed Dr. Johanna Contreras in our episode titled 4. How can we prevent the high incidence of maternal mortality in Latin America?*

Para nuestro primer episodio en español, invitamos a las doctoras Ana Múnera y Claudia Almonte, que han estado trabajando para crear más conciencia sobre las disparidades en la atención sanitaria materna en Latinoamerica.

Nos acompañan para hablar del acceso a la atención sanitaria en Latinoamerica y, en concreto, de la relación entre las enfermedades cardiovasculares y la salud materna. ¿Cuáles son los retos a los que se enfrentan las madres de esta región antes, durante y después del embarazo? Y, ¿Qué disparidades persistentes suponen resultados sanitarios adversos para los más vulnerables de la sociedad?

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What are the challenges that mothers in Latin America must face? And how do we re:solve them? 

Today we are joined by Dr. Johanna Contreras, founding member of the American Heart Association and an associate professor at The Mount Sinai hospital in New York City. Dr. Johanna is spreading awareness of disparities in maternal health care, and the link between maternal and cardiovascular health throughout Latin America. Her initiatives call to improve maternal resources & healthcare accessibility in Central and South America, supporting new mothers and their babies. 

Cardiovascular disease is the number 1 disease of women all around the world. On top of this, Latin American women tend to have higher risk factors. What efforts can we make to support mothers before and after pregnancy in this part of the world? 

To listen to the episode in Spanish, we interviewed Drs. Ana and Claudia, in our episode titled 4. ¿Que podemos hacer para prevenir la alta incidencia de mortalidad materna en Latinoamerica?

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Today, we are joined by Dr. Ernest Darkoh-Ampem from BroadReach group, a globally recognized leader in healthcare management. Among his many roles, he previously served as a member of the USA president advisory council on HIV and AIDS. Hence, we would hardly find a more suitable person to give us more insights into the global HIV epidemic and where we are in hitting our 2030 targets. What challenges and stigmas are standing in the way? And finally, what is holding us back from healthier societies?

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This episode focuses on ensuring social corporate responsibility through a metric system that will be rolling out in Q1 2023.

Health journalist and host Brian Mastroianni sat down to talk with Dr Andrea Feigl, Founder and CEO of the Health Finance Institute (HFI), to learn more about this impact grading.

HFI developed a health credit system, to attribute points to companies in regards of them contributing to healthier societies by measuring good or bad actions towards resolving global health issues. Listen more about this topic that was unveiled this week at the World Economic Forum at Davos.

Follow HFI's work at: https://www.healthfinanceinstitute.org/

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Hello from Re:solve Global Health to all global health aficionados out there!

For our first episode, we dig into long COVID. For most, coronavirus (COVID-19) feel better within a few days or weeks of their symptoms and fully recover within 12 weeks. For others, symptoms can last longer. This condition is now officially called long COVID or post-COVID-19 syndrome and is still under study. 

To find out more, our host Brian Mastroianni invites Dr Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease expert at UCSF who will publish a book on epidemics and their impact on global health later this year.

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