A Bitter Pill - What Happens Next? podcast on digital health
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Covid-19 has created and accelerated changes in the healthcare sector and how we think about our health as individuals, a national and a society. Dr Susan Carland will be chatting about digital health in the next three podcast episodes of What Happens Next? Listen to discover what happens if we don’t change - what are the opportunity costs if we fail to grasp this moment and learn from the pandemic. We talk to the experts in global health who are driving the changes we need right here in Australia, and how technology and behavioural science can help drive positive social outcomes. And as usual we’ll have all the practical tips you need to make change yourself.
"The science tells us that unless you address the root causes, which are often environmental and social, you are only going to get more and more health challenges."
Maithri Goonetilleke, Associate Professor in global health
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About the Authors
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Selina lo
Senior Research Fellow, Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Selina has previously worked for Doctors without Borders leading medical humanitarian project teams in Kabul, Afghanistan, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China, and Thailand. She was the medical director for Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines based in Geneva, and Clinical Advisor to the Clinton Foundation based at the national Chinese Centre for Disease Control HIV AIDS unit.
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Maithri peiris goonetilleke
Associate Professor, Global Health
Assoc Prof Maithri Goonetilleke is an Australian medical doctor and Associate Professor in Global Health. For the last 15 years Maithri has worked as a clinician and public health worker in both Australia and Eswatini, Sub Saharan Africa. In Eswatini he was founder of the non governmental organization Possible Dreams International which addresses structural determinants of health in the most rural and remote parts of the country and is entirely managed by Indigenous Swazi people.
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Susan carland
Director, Bachelor of Global Studies, and Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics
Susan's research and teaching specialties focus on gender, sociology, contemporary Australia, terrorism, and Islam in the modern world. Susan hosted the “Assumptions” series on ABC’s Radio National, and was named one of the 20 Most Influential Australian Female Voices in 2012 by The Age.
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Introducing “What Happens Next?”
Monash University's podcast, ‘What Happens Next?’, hosted by Dr Susan Carland, examines some of the biggest challenges facing our world and asks the experts, “What will happen if we don't change? And what can we do to create a better future?”.