Welcome to Maa’s The Word - the global health podcast with a worldly spin.
Join us whilst we interview global experts, community influencers and tomorrow’s changemakers, all of whom are facilitating change in global health.
Carving our journey from council estates to becoming doctors and entrepreneurs.
This week, we have the Scrubbed in duo, Dr Abdul Rahyead and Dr Amz Choudhury. Both share their incredible success stories from being working class lads to fulfilling their dreams of being medical doctors. Most recently, they founded Peerr, a peer-to-peer learning platform to help others learn and achieve their career ambitions. Tune in to find out how they carved their own realities and worked towards their goals to become tomorrow's changemakers.
5 Feb 2022
The tears and joy of working in healthcare: My journey into the world of Nursing.
An ardent YouTuber, TikTok'er and changemaker, Nurse Zara shares her journey into the world of healthcare through Nursing within the NHS.
Zara has worked in various units, most recently re-deployed within the ICU and has been nominated for the best nurse award. This podcast follows Zara’s journey into Nursing from initially considering a career in the world of corporate affairs. Zara shares her experience working within one of the most intense period in recent history, the global pandemic & how she has managed during the early years in her career.
Find out what it's really like to be working in times of uncertainty, Zara shares her experiences as she joins the force of frontline staff to help saves lives amongst the global catastrophe, Covid19. She shares the importance of resilience in fulfilling your career ambitions irrespective of the hurdles that may be seen.
7 Aug 2021
The Importance of Education in De-stigmatising Pregnancy
Dr Makins discusses the different global health systems and how this affects quality of life for the people, in particular pregnant women. She discusses the importance of education particularly in challenging the stigma surrounding pregnancy in particular communities across the globe. Dr Makins shares her experiences working with Figo. It’s almost imperative to have healthy systems in place, and educational programmes to facilitate healthier pregnancies and smoother deliveries.
18 Jul 2021
Palestine: The Political Struggle is a Global Health Concern
Dr Eltuhamy explores the ongoing political atrocities in Palestine and the current state of the healthcare as well as the long term health implications on the civilians and the future generations. Tune in to hear about more about the the Palestinian crisis and how we as a global community could do our bit to help those in need.
11 May 2021
Xenophobia. Bride kidnapping. Refugee crisis. How can we heal the world?
Joined by human rights activist Rahima Begum we learn her story into politics and navigating the complex issues of child poverty in the dark underbelly of Bangladesh's street capitals.
1 May 2021
One Test, One Pill, Save Two Lives - Prof. Asif Ahmed
In this week episode, we are joined by the visionary global expert, Professor Asif Ahmed.
We touch upon the important figures and mentors that played a role in his early founded success as a vascular scientist, discovering two protective pathways to prevent pre-eclampsia, a condition that leads to 1 in 50 deaths for women during pregnancy.
Not only does he share his journey into the world of science but also his incredible story of successes and challenges that he faced and overcame as he founded Aston Medical school. His passion for social mobility shines though as he speaks about the type of medics, doctors and professionals he sought out to assist and mentor in his role within this school.
Tune in as Prof Asif Ahmed shares insight into his groundbreaking work where he and his team discover the cure for pre-eclampsia at MirZyme Therapeutics.
24 Apr 2021
Changing Lives Through Sports - Fahimul Islam
As part of our Tomorrow’s Changemaker stream, we interview the former Young Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Fahimul Islam. Fahimul founded Anything Is Possible (AIP) Sports during his term as Young Mayor.
As part of his manifesto, Fahimul pledged to invest in sports as an important outlet for the youth of his community as a means to promote healthy living both for physical and mental health.
Fahimul speaks about the importance of sports in his life and how it’s shaped him into the person he is today. Tune is as he takes us through his journey of finding AIP Sports whilst being a student and Young Mayor. He is truly an inspirational figure for young people of tomorrow’s generation.
17 Apr 2021
Sexual Abuse: Breaking the Silence - Shahanaz Rahman
TW: Sexual Assault
In this episode we are joined by Shahanaz Rahman, she has a background in Psychology and is lead of the Survivors Together Project which seeks to support female survivors of sexual abuse.
Women who have experienced sexual abuse are not victims but survivors. This is at the core of the organisation, where survivors come together to engage in conversation, build friendships and a strong support network to manage emotions and build a future.
Tune in as we learn and unpack the forms of sexual abuse, the tell-tale signs in young people who are a casualty of this and a personal take on supporting one another.
For help and advice on this topic, here are some useful resoruces:
Support Guide: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/abuse/
NHS: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/sexual-health/help-after-rape-and-sexual-assault/
10 Apr 2021
The value of healthcare in modern society - Dr Anant Jani
Welcome to Maa's the Word!Today we are joined by Dr Anant Jani who is an Oxford Martin Fellow at the University of Oxford and a visiting researcher at the Heidelberg Institute for Global Health. Tune is as he discusses how healthcare systems can be redesigned to focus more on social determinants of health through value-based healthcare delivery models.This is where we hear a first hand account of Dr Anant Jani's journey across the globe from working with farmers in Mexico to Siberia and the structural issues in fair trade. He also toys with the idea of mobile banking in countries where load shedding is the norm and access to the internet a luxury. Dr Jani questions the very presence of healthcare systems, not only in the UK but internationally.Prior to his academic positions, Anant was Executive Director at Better Value Healthcare, a boutique advisory firm that worked with healthcare systems in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia to help them redesign their healthcare systems to focus more on value based healthcare.
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