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As the UK’s independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. Today, in the second part of our two-part special, Mark speaks to the parents
As the UK’s independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. Today, Mark speaks to the parents of Susan Sullivan, a woman with Down's Syn
As the UK’s independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. In a new two part special, Mark speaks to the parents of Susan Sullivan, a D
As sure as night follows day, we will face another pandemic, so how can we learn from the mistakes made during Covid-19, to ensure our response next time is not only more effective, but also more ethical? Today Mark and his guests Ilina Singh,
From the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the British Government made it clear that a baseline level of mortality from Covid was being “priced in” to its decision making: on March 12th 2020, Boris Johnson stopped short of ordering the sort of l
Professor Sir Michael Marmot has been researching health inequalities and their relationship to social injustice for more than 50 years. He has long been a vocal critic of how health inequalities undermine social cohesion and the ability of hea
When Covid-19 first struck the UK, the disease was described as “a great leveller”. But it soon became clear that Covid's impacts were not evenly distributed - we may have been in the same storm, but we were in different boats. Today Mark and
The coronavirus pandemic raised significant questions about public trust: trust in science, trust in politicians and trust in the public health messaging. Today Mark and his guests Anjana Ahuja; Sarah Cunningham-Burley; Charles Kwaku-Odoi and C
Mark visits the Science Museum in London to look at their Collecting Covid-19 objects and talk to Natasha McEnroe, the museum’s Keeper of Medicine, about their curatorial choices. The collection currently comprises over 400 items relating to th
One of the most important functions of journalism is to bear witness to historic events. But in the case of the coronavirus pandemic, some of the most unflinching witnesses to the crisis that engulfed the NHS in 2020-2021 were doctors and front
Pandemics don’t tend to register in collective memory and there are almost no memorials to the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, but Covid-19 looks set to be different. Today Mark and Hannah visit the ‘National Covid Memorial Wall’ on the South Ba
In this special episode, supported by the Department of Journalism at City, University of London, Mark speaks to three UK-based health and science reporters about the highs and lows of covering the Covid-19 pandemic: Sarah Boseley, The Guardian
Today Mark explores the discovery of the first vaccine, against Smallpox in 1796, by the English country doctor Edward Jenner. With Owen Gower, General Manager of Dr. Jenner’s House Museum. Meanwhile, Melissa catches up with Mark’s progress i
This is not the first time scientists have raced to develop vaccines against a new disease. In the 1960s, scientists faced a similar crisis over rubella, also known as German measles. Today Mark explores the race to create the rubella vaccine
It’s the science story of the century - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. Mark explores the back-story on how they did it so quickly with Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the NIAID and Sarah Gilbert from t
On New Year’s Eve 2020, Mark took his mum to St Charles’s Hospital in London’s North Kensington to get a shot of the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, almost a year after the coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan. It’s the science story of the century -
Disease ecologist Peter Daszak speaks to Mark down the line from his hotel room in Wuhan, China, on day 4 of his quarantine. He’s a member of the World Health Organisation team currently investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Hosted by Mark
Mark returns to a subject close to his heart: the Spanish Flu of 1918/19 and asks what can we learn from that pandemic of 100 years ago? With Wendy Moore and Hannah Mawdsley. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Wendy Moore, author of
Mark examines the origins of Covid-19 and why we failed to heed the warnings about coronaviruses with virus hunter Peter Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @PeterDaszak the President of EcoHe
With the UK recording the highest death toll from Covid-19 in Europe, Mark speaks to Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet and Robert Dingwall, medical sociologist at Nottingham Trent University, who sits on the New and Emerging Respiratory Viru
Mark debunks the latest #batshitcrazy conspiracy theories about Covid-19 with David Robert Grimes and Mike Jay. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With David Robert Grimes @drg1985 cancer researcher and vocal opponent of conspiracy theor
Mark checks our emotional health with Thomas Dixon, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and Nancy Lublin, the founder & CEO of CrisisTextLine.org Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @ProfThomasDixon Professor of H
Mark Honigsbaum talks facts, figures and projections about Covid-19 to Andrew Noymer, medical demographer and professor of public health at University of California Irvine. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @AndrewNoymer Series Pro
Going Viral brings you a special episode about the role of the media in the growth of vaccine hesitancy, recorded live at City University of London on 26th June 2019. @CityUniLondon. In the last 18 months, Europe and the US have seen an upsurge
The disease detectives talk pandemics, past and present, with Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. How prepared are we for the next outbreak? Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Dr. Jerem
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