World Health Investigation Podcast
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World Health Investigation Podcast
Latest Episodes
Navigating STIs in your 20s
From Fête de la Musique and Afro Nation to Wireless, Notting Hill Carnival and beyond, we know this summer is about to be hot. In this episode, we're unpacking STIs, testing, stigma, and the awkward conversations nobody wants to have but everyo...
Period Poverty and the Hidden Cost of Menstruation
This #MenstrualHygieneDay, we're asking a simple question: why does half the population have a monthly expense they never signed up for? We unpack period poverty, the hidden cost of menstruation, and why access to products is only part of the s...
Commercial Determinants of Health: Are Your Choices Really Yours?
This week, we’re exposing the real drivers of “lifestyle diseases” - and spoiler: it’s not just your willpower. From Coca-Cola *allegedly* influencing public health conversations to baby formula companies selling anxiety to new parents, we unpa...
It’s Not “Just Hormones”: Why Women’s Health Still Gets Overlooked
In honour of Women’s History Month, we unpack endometriosis, PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome), menopause and why women’s pain is still dismissed, delayed, and under-researched. We look into funding failures, the gender bias built into medicine,...
“Fat people can’t do pilates”: Ozempic and Fatphobia
Weight loss drugs are changing what’s medically possible, but are they changing what we expect from bodies too? In this episode, we unpack obesity, GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, and the tension between public health and fatphobia. We dis...
