The 'Coronavirus: The Whole Story' podcast highlights Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's interdisciplinary expertise on COVID-19 – focusing on its management, mitigation, eventual halt, and preparing for a post-coronavirus world.
Presented by writer, broadcaster and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê alumna Vivienne Parry, each episode looks at the coronavirus outbreak through different lenses, covering history, psychology, social sciences, arts, engineering, economics, law, and politics.ÌýHere we highlight podcasts featuring Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Population Health Sciences experts.Ìý
- Episode 2: How can we track the virus?
Do we understand the spread of the virus?
Listen to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Population Health Sciences experts, , Director of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care and Dr Eleni Nastouli, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Child Health and Clinical Lead of the Department of Clinical Virology at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊH.
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- Episode 5: How is it affecting our mental health?
How do we cope and protect ourselves and our communities?
This episode exploresÌýthe impact of coronavirus on people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health. Hear from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Population Health SciencesÌýexperts, and as they talk about how it affects us in lockdown, front line staff, bereaved families, the vulnerable, and the many factors that impact various groups.
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- Episode 7: How close are we to finding a cure?
This episode, exploring how we tackle and track the virus, features Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Population Health Sciences expert, .
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- Episode 9: How has the pandemic highlighted BAME inequalities?
Ethnicity, inequality, socio-economic issues
This episode addressesÌýthe recent report on disparities in the risks and outcomes of Covid-19 and discussing other issues of inequality during the pandemic. Hear fromÌýÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Population Health Sciences experts,ÌýDr Rob AldridgeÌý(Institute of Health Informatics),Ìý(Institute of Cardiovascular Science) and (Institute for Global Health).
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- Episode 12:ÌýHow can behavioural science help us combat the virus?Ìý
Why should we listen to behavioural scientists?
In this episode behavioural scientistÌýand SAGE (and SAGEÌýindependent advisors)ÌýProfessor Robert West (Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care) ²¹²Ô»åÌýProfessor Susan Michie (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Brain Sciences) explore the role that behavioural science plays in controlling the spread of COVID-19.Ìý
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- Episode 13: How will our children recover from lockdown?
As the coronavirus pandemic in the UK approaches its sixth month, episode 13ÌýtakesÌýa look at the long-term impact of lockdown and subsequent school closures on our nation’s children and young people. Special guests includeÌýDr Lee Hudson (Great Ormond StreetÌýInstitute of Child Health) and colleagues from the IOE, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's Faculty of Education.
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- Episode 17: What's happening to healthcare during the pandemic?
In episode 17, weÌýexploreÌýthe impact on patients who haven't caught the virus, but who are sick with something else instead. Find out what's causing more people to die in the UK this year other than coronavirus, how cancer diagnosis and treatments are being managed, and how some neurologists are looking after patients online. Special guests includeÌýÌý(Clinical Senior Lecturer Honorary Consultant in Cardiology) at the Institute of Health Informatics.Ìý
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- Episode 26: Will a second lockdown save the Christmas break?
This episode was recorded before the UK Government’s announcement about a second national lockdown.
Infection rates are rising rapidly and there is little evidence to prove regional lockdowns have had an impact on driving cases down. We speak to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê experts from the Institute for Global Health, The Bartlett School of Planning and the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Department of Geography to explore the raging row about lockdowns, the rationale behind them and whether or not a second national lockdown could have been avoided.
With special guests:
- (Professor of Infectious Disease)
- Prof John Tomaney (Professor of Urban and Regional Planning)
- Prof James Cheshire (Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography)
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- Episode 28: How is the pandemic affecting women?
Episode 28 is the first in a two-part special about how Coronavirus is affecting women. We're joined by Dr Daisy Fancourt to hear more about the findings of her study exploring the differing impacts of Covid on the UK population over the past 33 weeks –Ìýfrom exacerbated social inequalities to the psychological implications of lockdown, including loneliness, isolation, domestic abuse, and fertility and family planning issues –Ìýas well as behaviours that can help improve mental health. We're also joined by to discuss her work exploring how ethnic minority women in higher education are coping during the pandemic.
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- Episode 29: How is the pandemic affecting pregnancies and new parents?
Episode 29 is the second in a two-part special about how Coronavirus is affecting women.Ìý We speak to three researchers who have spent lockdown investigating how coronavirus has affected fertility, pregnancy and parenting. Our Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê experts include:
- , Lecturer in Women’s Health at the Institute for Women’s Health
- , Clinical Associate Professor and NIHR Advanced fellow at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute for Women’s Health
- , Professor of Paediatric Nutrition at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê GOS Institute of Child Health
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