Going Viral - The Podcast (Mark Honigsbaum / Zinc Media)
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| 05 Jul 2018 | The Blue Death | 00:33:25 | |
The disease detectives investigate the theory that the Spanish flu originated in Etaples, Northern France in 1916. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co Glyn Prysor, Chief Historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. @glynprysor Find out more about Etaples Military Cemetery: www.cwgc.org/find/find-cemeteries-and-memorials/56500/etaples-military-cemetery Dr. Michael Worobey, Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professor, Department Head Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. www.eeb.arizona.edu/people/dr-michael-worobey-department-head The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Readings by: Jessie Brooks www.jessiebrooks.co.uk and Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod | |||
| 30 Apr 2020 | The Covid Files 3: “They’re Trying to Control your Mind” | 00:32:26 | |
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 theorists. His new book ‘The Irrational Ape’ on why we get everything from medicine to politics wrong and how we can stop ourselves falling victim to fools, liars and charlatans, will be out on Sept 5th 2020. Mike Jay @MikeJayNet author and cultural historian, Mike writes widely on the history of science and medicine. https://mikejay.net/books/the-influencing-machine/ https://mikejay.net/darkness-over-all/ https://mikejay.net/stranger-fiction/ Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast | |||
| 10 Jul 2023 | NEW 2 Part Special Coming Soon... | 00:02:09 | |
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 Down’s Syndrome woman who died of Covid-19 at Barnet General Hospital on March 28, 2020, after being deemed “not for resuscitation” and being denied access to intensive care. The Sullivans have long suspected that their daughter was the victim of medical bias and may have survived if the hospital had granted her statutory right to have a family member at her bedside. Determined to be Susan’s voice, John and Ida Sullivan launched their own investigation into Susan’s death and uncovered a catalogue of medical errors in the process. Mark investigates.... ...'That's Dancing Queen' and 'Who Do We Not Save' coming to Going Viral on Thursday 13th July. | |||
| 05 May 2020 | The Covid Files 4: Following the Science | 00:56:52 | |
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 Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) to help him make sense of the British government’s decision-making. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet medical journal www.thelancet.com / @richardhorton1 Robert Dingwall, medical sociologist and a member of NERVTAG @rwjdingwall Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast | |||
| 10 Jul 2018 | Some New Kind of Plague | 00:32:05 | |
The disease detectives investigate the theory that the Spanish flu originated in America and another theory that it came from China: in both cases the flu was first identified as ‘plague’. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Dr. David Morens, CAPT, United States Public Health Service, Senior Advisor to the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.gov/dm17/m05d16/Biosketch-Morens-David.pdf John Barry, Author of ‘The Great Influenza: the story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History’. www.johnmbarry.com Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co Professor Wendy Barclay, Action Medical Research Chair in Virology, Imperial College London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/w.barclay/honours-and-memberships.html Dr. Michael Worobey, Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professor, Department Head Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. www.eeb.arizona.edu/people/dr-michael-worobey-department-head Glyn Prysor, Chief Historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. @glynprysor Find out more about Noyelles-sur-Mer cemetery: www.cwgc.org/find/find-cemeteries-and-memorials/68500/noyelles-sur-mer-chinese-cemetery Mark Humphries, Associate Professor; Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience; Director, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS), Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada. www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-arts/faculty-profiles/mark-humphries/index.html The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Readings by: Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod | |||
| 05 Dec 2022 | Who Do We Trust in a Pandemic? | 00:58:19 | |
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 Christina Pagel discuss trust during the Covid-19 pandemic for this Going Viral special, produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Anjana Ahuja Anjana Ahuja is a contributing writer on science for the Financial Times, offering weekly opinion on significant developments in global science, health and technology. Last year she co-authored the bestselling ‘Spike: The Virus Vs The People’ - the inside story of the Covid-19 pandemic with Sir Jeremy Farrar. Spike was shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize. https://www.ft.com/anjana-ahuja / @anjahuja Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley Sarah is Professor of Medical and Family Sociology and Dean of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Sarah led on work around engaging the public as part of the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator which finished its work in August 2022. She brought together members of the public to consider ethical issues arising during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/sarah-cunningham-burley / @Sarah_C_Burley Rev Charles Kwaku-Odoi Charles is Chief Officer of the Caribbean and African Health Network (CAHN) and a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of the county of Greater Manchester. Charles works to bring equity and fairness across a range of important health and wellbeing issues for people of the Caribbean and African Diaspora. He sits on a wide range of local and national governance boards including Macc (Manchester Community Central), Faith Network for Manchester, SAGE Ethnicity Subgroup, Greater Manchester Voluntary Community & Social Enterprise (VCSE) Leadership Group, Coalition of Race Equality (CORE) Organisations. Professor Christina Pagel Christina Pagel is a Mathematician and Professor of operational research at University College London within UCL's Clinical Operational Research Unit, which applies operational research, data analysis and mathematical modelling to topics in healthcare. https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=ACPAG88 / @chrischirp Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Co-producer: Kate Jopling @katejopling Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast This episode of Going Viral on trust during the pandemic, has been produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator, which was funded by the UKRI Covid-19 research and innovation fund. Transcript available here: Going-Viral-Who-Do-We-Trust-in-a-Pandemic-Transcript-1.pdf If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
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| 08 Apr 2021 | Vaxx and the Facts: The Godfather of Vaccines | 00:37:14 | |
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 with Dr. Stanley Plotkin, dubbed ‘The Godfather of Vaccines’. In 1964, working in his Wistar Institute laboratory in Philadelphia, Stanley developed the rubella vaccine — the “R” in MMR— that’s now used across the world. And Melissa speaks to science writer Meredith Wadman about the ethics of creating the rubella vaccine. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Dr. Stanley Plotkin, Professor Emeritus at the Wistar Institute and University of Pennsylvania, and consultant to the vaccine industry. vaccinestoday.eu/stories/author/splotkin/ Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman, Reporter @ScienceMagazine, Author of "The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease”. Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you are enjoying our series do leave us a rating or review! Thank you | |||
| 23 Apr 2020 | The Covid Files 2: How Are You Feeling? | 00:38:13 | |
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 History at Queen Mary University of London where he runs the Wellcome Trust funded 'Living With Feeling' project. His most recent book is Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears. You can find out more about his team's 'Developing Emotions' schools project and how to download the teaching materials at the History of Emotions blog. Thomas's BBC Radio 4 series 'Five Hundred Years of Friendship' is available on BBC Sounds, and you can hear his podcast series about anger on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts. Nancy Lublin, Founder & CEO, of Crisis Text Line, Free 24/7 support at your fingertips, CrisisTextLine.org, @CrisisTextLine Guest Presenter: Olivia Honigsbaum Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod | |||
| 29 Jan 2021 | Vaxx and the Facts: Operation Warp Speed | 00:31:07 | |
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 - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. Mark explores how they did it so quickly with Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute in Oxford behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. And against the backdrop of global vaccine hesitancy, and as Covid-19 cases surge in Britain’s second wave, Mark speaks to Peter Openshaw from Imperial College London about the magic of vaccines. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Professor Adrian Hill, Lakshmi Mittal and Family Professorship of Vaccinology; Director of the Jenner Institute; Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Vaccines; Fellow of Magdalen College. www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-adrian-hill Peter Openshaw Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College at Imperial College, London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.openshaw / @p_openshaw Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy these podcasts please leave us a rating or review - thank you. | |||
| 21 Jan 2021 | The Covid Files 7: Back to Wuhan | 00:27:18 | |
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 Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @PeterDaszak the President of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding the connections between human, animal, and environmental health. Facebook @EcoHealthNYC Twitter @EcoHealthNYC Instagram @ecohealth_alliance Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast | |||
| 21 Jun 2018 | Bringing Up The Bodies | 00:22:48 | |
How bodies emerging from the past inspired the search for the secrets of the Spanish flu. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Chief, Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.irp.nih.gov/pi/jeffery-taubenberger Laura Spinney, Novelist, science journalist and author of ‘Pale Rider, The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World’. www.lauraspinney.com / @lfspinney Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Readings by: Jeanette Honigsbaum and Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod
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| 07 Jun 2021 | Commemorating Covid | 00:35:49 | |
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 Bank of the Thames in London, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Stretching 500 metres along Albert Embankment, the wall is an audacious work of guerrilla art, comprising of 150,000 hand-drawn hearts – one for every British victim of the coronavirus. To find out more, Mark speaks to the founders of the group ‘Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice’ - Jo Goodman, Matt Fowler and Nathan Oswin, who dreamt up the people's memorial. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley Jo Goodman Matt Fowler Nathan Oswin @CovidJusticeUK / @CovidMemorialUK For more information about the National Covid Memorial Wall, visit: www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast – please leave us a rating or review. Thank you! | |||
| 19 Jan 2023 | How Many Deaths Are Too Many? | 01:07:34 | |
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 lockdowns seen in other countries and warned that, “many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time.” This approach belied a series of value judgements and trade-offs where people’s lives were set against other values, such as personal liberty and the economy. Today Mark and his guests Anjana Ahuja, Martin McKee and Dominic Wilkinson, reappraise this approach. With Ceinwen Giles and Matt Fowler. Produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Anjana Ahuja Contributing writer on science for the Financial Times and co-author of the bestselling ‘Spike: The Virus Vs The People’ - the inside story of the Covid-19 pandemic with Sir Jeremy Farrar. https://www.ft.com/anjana-ahuja / @anjahuja Ceinwen Giles Co-CEO of Shine Cancer Support, member of the General Advisory Council of The King's Fund and Chair of the Patient and Public Voices Forum for the NHS England Cancer Programme. www.shinecancersupport.org / @ceineken Professor Martin McKee Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Martin is Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and he’s published many scientific papers and books on health and health policy, with a particular focus on countries undergoing political and social transition. www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/mckee.martin / @martinmckee Matt Fowler Co-Founder of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice. www.jrct.org.uk/covid-19-bereaved-families / @CovidJusticeUK Professor Dominic Wilkinson Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Dominic is also a Consultant Neonatologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College. He is one the editors of a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press on pandemic ethics. www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-college/our-community/people/professor-dominic-wilkinson/ / @NeonatalEthics Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Co-producer: Kate Jopling @katejopling Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast Blog: markhonigsbaum.substack.com This episode of Going Viral on trust in the pandemic, has been produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. The Ethics Accelerator was funded by the UKRI Covid-19 research and innovation fund. https://ukpandemicethics.org/ / @PandemicEthics_ Transcript available here: Going-Viral-How-Many-Deaths-Are-Too-Many-Transcript.pdf
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| 17 Mar 2022 | Bearing Witness with Dr. Rachel Clarke | 00:38:36 | |
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 frontline health workers. In this episode, the Oxford-based palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke, recalls her experience of the first wave of Covid-19 as it ripped through the wards of her local hospital and emphasises the importance of holding the government to account for the UK’s coronavirus death toll. Recorded at the Department of Journalism at City, University of London on March 10th, Dr. Rachel Clarke’s remarks came at a workshop convened with the Science Museum on “Connecting in the time of Covid”. We will be sharing further outtakes from the workshop in forthcoming episodes. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Dr. Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford “Connecting in the time of Covid”: https://tinyurl.com/2p9ez37h Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast – please leave us a rating or review. Thank you! | |||
| 16 Jul 2023 | Who Do We Not Save? | 00:26:22 | |
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 of Susan Sullivan, a woman with Down's Syndrome who died of Covid-19 at Barnet General Hospital on March 28, 2020, after being deemed “not for resuscitation” and he reveals the findings of a confidential investigation by the Royal Free NHS Hospital Trust into her death. The report, which makes for shocking reading, found that Susan was not seen by a consultant until 20 hours after admission to Barnet’s Accident and Emergency department and that the fact that she had Down’s Syndrome and had been fitted with a pacemaker should not have excluded her from intensive care. Mark also speaks to Kamran Mallick, the CEO of Disability Rights UK, about what the Sullivan case reveals about the pattern of discrimination experienced by people with learning disabilities across the NHS, and to Dominic Wilkinson, a medical ethicist, who explains the challenge to doctors of weighing the harms and benefits of invasive procedures to patients. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: John and Ida Sullivan www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org / @CovidJusticeuk Kamran Mallick, CEO of Disability Rights UK. www.disabilityrights.uk / @KamranMallick Professor Dominic Wilkinson Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Dominic is also a Consultant Neonatologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College. www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-college/our-community/people/professor-dominic-wilkinson/ Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast Blog: markhonigsbaum.substack.com This episode of Going Viral has been produced with the support of a grant from the Higher Education Innovation Fund at City, University of London. It is part of the project, “Commemorating Covid, Remembering Pandemics”, www.rememberingpandemics.com If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you! | |||
| 08 Jan 2023 | All In It Together: Were Unequal Outcomes Inevitable during Covid-19? | 00:58:16 | |
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 his guests Charlotte Augst, Halima Begum and Beth Kamunge-Kpodo discuss unequal outcomes during the Covid-19. With Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Pastor Mick Fleming. Produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Dr. Charlotte Augst Former Chief Executive of National Voices, a coalition of charities working on health issues and which was extremely active highlighting issues of inequality during the pandemic. www.nationalvoices.org.uk / @CharlotteAugst Dr. Halima Begum Chief Executive of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading race equality think tank. https://www.runnymedetrust.org / @Halima_Begum Pastor Mick Fleming Founder of Church on the Street Ministries, Burnley. Dr. Beth Kamunge-Kpodo Beth is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading. She has a longstanding interest in exploring and addressing various forms of inequality. www.reading.ac.uk/law/our-staff/beth-kamunge-kpodo Professor Sir Michael Marmot Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association. Professor Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for over 50 years. https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Co-producer: Kate Jopling @katejopling Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast This episode of Going Viral on trust in the pandemic, has been produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. It is a partnership between the Universities of Oxford, Bristol and Edinburgh, University College London, and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (the Principal Investigator was Professor Ilina Singh, University of Oxford). The Ethics Accelerator was funded by the UKRI Covid-19 research and innovation fund. Transcript available here: Going-Viral-Were-Unequal-Outcomes-Inevitable-during-Covid-19-Transcript.pdf If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you! | |||
| 23 Apr 2021 | Vaxx and the Facts: The House that Jenner Built | 00:34:55 | |
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 in the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine trial, the very latest in vaccine science. From Smallpox to Covid-19: this is the house that Jenner built. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Owen Gower, General Manager, Dr. Jenner’s House, Museum and Garden, The home of vaccination. @owentg jennermuseum.com / @DrJennersHouse Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast please leave us a rating or review - thank you! | |||
| 10 May 2021 | Reporting the Pandemic | 00:49:16 | |
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’s Health Editor; Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Editor at Channel 4 News and Shaun Lintern, the Independent’s Health Correspondent. What’s it been like being on the front line of the story of the century? And looking back, what do they wish they had known earlier or done differently? Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Sarah Boseley, The Health Editor of The Guardian @sarahboseley www.theguardian.com/profile/sarahboseley Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Editor, Channel 4 News @vsmacdonald www.channel4.com/news/by/victoria-macdonald Shaun Lintern, Health Correspondent, Independent @ShaunLintern www.independent.co.uk/author/shaun-lintern This episode is supported by the Department of Journalism, City, University of London www.city.ac.uk/about/schools/arts-social-sciences/journalism Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_Pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast | |||
| 12 Feb 2021 | Vaxx and the Facts: Premonitions of the Pandemic | 00:33:47 | |
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 the Jenner Institute, Oxford. He gets the low down on the vaccine science from scientist Rob Swanda and he talks vaccines vs. variants with Wendy Barclay from Imperial College London. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director Professor Sarah Gilbert, Saïd Professorship of Vaccinology, Jenner Institute & Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine www.jenner.ac.uk/team/sarah-gilbert Rob Swanda @ScientistSwanda / Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UClU56Y1m8J9w82itIEXEHFQ?view_as=subscriber Professor Wendy Barclay, Action Medical Research Chair Virology, Imperial College London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/w.barclay Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy these podcasts, please leave us a rating or review. Thank you. | |||
| 28 Jun 2018 | Resurrecting The Killer | 00:24:46 | |
The incredible story of how a team of scientists brought the deadly Spanish flu virus back to life. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Chief, Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.irp.nih.gov/pi/jeffery-taubenberger Dr. Peter Palese Horace W. Goldsmith Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Professor, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City. www.icahn.mssm.edu/profiles/peter-palese Dr. Terence Tumpey, microbiologist and chief of the Immunology and Pathogenesis Branch (IPB) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Influenza Division. www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/pandemic-flu-fighter-terrence-tumpey.htm The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Readings by: Will Huggins. https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome. www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod | |||
| 13 May 2020 | The Covid Files 5: Disease X, He Tried to Warn Us | 00:39:26 | |
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 EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding the connections between human, animal, and environmental health. EcoHealth Alliance works in 30 countries around the world to identify and study the threat of emerging zoonotic disease. EcoHealth Alliance has been instrumental in understanding the origins and spread of diseases like SARS, MERS, Nipah virus, and Ebola, among others. EcoHealth Alliance also published the first ever global emerging disease hotspots map, identifying regions where the threat is highest. Dr. Daszak helped to launch the Global Virome Project, an ambitious vision to identify all of the world's unknown viruses. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and Chair of its Forum on Microbial Threats. Facebook @EcoHealthNYC Twitter @EcoHealthNYC Instagram @ecohealth_alliance Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast | |||
| 03 Oct 2018 | Pandemics Past and Present with Jeremy Farrar | 00:27:40 | |
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. Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. www.wellcome.ac.uk / @JeremyFarrar View the animation ‘How Pandemics Spread’ here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-pandemics-spread The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Reading by Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod | |||
| 19 Jul 2018 | Global Impacts, Local Traces | 00:23:44 | |
The disease detectives investigate the global ramifications of the Spanish flu pandemic and discover places far removed from the European theatre of war, where the Spanish flu has left its trace. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Shobana Jeyasingh, Choreographer. @SJeyasinghDance ‘Contagion’ is touring in 2018, for more information go to: www.shobanajeyasingh.co.uk Laura Spinney, Novelist, science journalist and author of ‘Pale Rider, The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World’. www.lauraspinney.com / @lfspinney Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co Dr. Anthea Hyslop, retired academic historian, Australian National University Dr. Peter Hobbins, Department of History, The University of Sydney. www.sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/peter.hobbins.php, @history2wheeler The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Readings by: Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1; Sian Kelly and Susheel Kumar www.susheelkumar.net ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod | |||
| 11 Jan 2023 | Covid Inequalities with Professor Sir Michael Marmot | 00:47:33 | |
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 health systems to respond effectively to pandemics and other health emergencies. Despite being an outspoken critic of austerity and the policies of successive Coalition and Conservative British governments, he was named a Companion of Honour in the 2023 New Year Honour’s List. Today Prof Sir Michael Marmot speaks to Mark about Covid-19 and health inequalities as well as his decades-long research into this field. This interview is featured in our companion episode: ‘All In It Together: Were Unequal Outcomes Inevitable during Covid-19?’ Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Professor Sir Michael Marmot Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association. https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/ @MichaelMarmot Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Co-producer: Kate Jopling @katejopling Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast Blog: markhonigsbaum.substack.com This episode of Going Viral on trust in the pandemic, has been produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. A partnership between the Universities of Oxford, Bristol and Edinburgh, University College London, and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (the Principal Investigator was Professor Ilina Singh, University of Oxford). The Ethics Accelerator was funded by the UKRI Covid-19 research and innovation fund. https://ukpandemicethics.org/ / @PandemicEthics_ Transcript available here: Going-Viral-Bonus-Interview-with-Professor-Sir-Michael-Marmot-Transcript.pdf If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
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| 26 Jan 2023 | What Would An Ethical Pandemic Look Like? | 00:57:43 | |
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, James Wilson and John Prideaux dissect the British Government’s approach during the Covid-19 pandemic and explore the failure to engage seriously with the ethical challenges the pandemic raised, comparing the British approach with those in the USA and China. And they debate how ethicists and ethical thinking could play a more central role in deciding how to respond to the next pandemic. With Catherine Joynson of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Catherine Joynson Associate Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics www.nuffieldbioethics.org | @CathJoynson | @Nuffbioethics John Prideaux The political correspondent at the Economist. www.mediadirectory.economist.com/people/john-prideaux/ | https://www.economist.com/ | @JohnPrideaux | @TheEconomist Ilina Singh Professor of Neuroscience & Society at the University of Oxford and co-director at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Ethics and the Humanities. Principal Investigator on The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator, a collaborative project that brought UK ethics research expertise to bear on the multiple, ongoing ethical challenges present by Covid-19. https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/ilina-singh | @OxPsychiatry James Wilson Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Health Humanities Centre at UCL and co-investigator on the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/people/permanent-academic-staff/james-wilson | @jamesgswilson | @ucl Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Co-producer: Kate Jopling @katejopling Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast Blog: markhonigsbaum.substack.com This episode of Going Viral on trust in the pandemic, has been produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. The Ethics Accelerator was funded by the UKRI Covid-19 research and innovation fund. https://ukpandemicethics.org/ | @PandemicEthics_ Transcript available here: Going-Viral-What-Would-an-Ethical-Pandemic-Look-Like-Transcript.pdf If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you! | |||
| 19 Sep 2018 | Remembering the Forgotten Pandemic | 00:20:44 | |
The disease detectives investigate Britain’s only memorial to the Spanish flu pandemic, which leads them to the diary of flu fighter Dr. Basil Hood - offering a rare insight into the experiences of the brave medics who served on the frontline of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co You can visit the ‘Influenza Pandemic Window – Heroes and Heroines of 1918-19’ in the medical library of the Royal London Hospital. https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/thehistorian/2017/10/06/through-a-glass-brightly-whitechapels-pandemic-window/ Dr. Basil Hood’s diary can be viewed by appointment at the Wellcome Collection. www.wellcomecollection.org ‘Spanish Flu: Nursing During History’s Deadliest Pandemic’ is running from 21st September 2018 – 16th June 2019 at The Florence Nightingale Museum, London www.florence-nightingale.co.uk The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Dr. Basil Hood voiced by Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod | |||
| 10 Apr 2020 | The Covid Files 1: Corona by Numbers | 00:53:31 | |
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 Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod | |||
| 26 Sep 2018 | The Pandemic Fear Industry | 00:28:48 | |
The disease detectives investigate the persistent fear that another pandemic virus will emerge again to threaten humanity, in the way that the Spanish Flu did 100 years ago. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Chief, Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.irp.nih.gov/pi/jeffery-taubenberger Ron Fouchier, Professor in Molecular Virology, Viroscience department, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. https://www.erasmusmc.nl/viroscience/research/fields-expertise/molecular-virology/ Dr. Eileen Choffnes, former Director of the National Academy of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats, USA. Michael Osterholm, Regent Professor and Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota. www.cidrap.umn.edu The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome. www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod
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| 10 Jun 2020 | The Covid Files 6: Spanish Flu Redux | 00:37:03 | |
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 The Knife Man; Wedlock; How to Create the Perfect Wife; and The Mesmerist. Her new book is ENDELL STREET: The Trailblazing Women who ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital (Atlantic, UK). Published in the US (Basic Books) as NO MAN’S LAND: The Trailblazing Women who ran Britain’s most extraordinary Military Hospital during World War 1. You can hear ENDELL STREET adapted for BBC Radio 4 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jmpp Twitter @wendymoore99 Hannah Mawdsley, Twitter: @HannahMawdsley Series Producer Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram goingviral_thepodcast | |||
| 10 Jun 2022 | Collecting Covid | 00:47:57 | |
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 the Covid-19 pandemic, including some major works of art. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Natasha McEnroe, Keep of Medicine at Science Museum London https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/project/collecting-covid-19/ Roxanna Halls on her painting of Katie Tomkins, Mortuary and Post-Mortem Services Manager at West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust, created as part of the Portraits for NHS Heroes project in response to the pandemic https://www.instagram.com/roxanahallsartist/?hl=en https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/artwork-roxana-halls/ Will Haynes, from the University of Sheffield’s geography department, on the project, “collecting the loneliness of students in the pandemic” https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/news/geography-students-publish-research-article Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you! | |||
| 12 Jul 2019 | Adverse Events: Vaccines and the Media | 00:57:44 | |
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 in measles cases seemingly fuelled by growing distrust of the Measles Mumps and Rubella vaccine. Many media commentators blame the measles outbreaks on the activities of anti-vaxxers – in particular, misleading information about MMR and other vaccines that circulate on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. But are anti-vaxxers really to blame for the upsurge in measles cases? Or is it all a bit of a moral panic manufactured by the press? And what about the rare cases where a vaccine is associated with an adverse event? How should journalists report genuine concerns about the safety and efficacy of vaccines without giving a platform to anti-vaxxers? Presented by Mark Honigsbaum, @honigsbaum Guest speakers: Fiona Fox, the Chief Executive of the Science Media Centre in London, @SMC_London. Dr. David Robert Grimes, Trinity College, Dublin, @drg1985. Jo Yarwood, Immunisation Manager at Public Health England, @PHE_uk. Emilie Karafillakis, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Vaccine Confidence Project, @EKarafillakis. Produced by Melissa FitzGerald, @Melissafitzg Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod | |||
| 13 Jul 2023 | The Dancing Queen | 00:29:55 | |
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 Syndrome who died of Covid-19 at Barnet General Hospital on March 28, 2020, after being deemed “not for resuscitation” and being denied access to intensive care. The Sullivans have long suspected that their daughter was the victim of medical bias and may have survived if the hospital had granted her statutory right to have a family member at her bedside. Determined to be Susan’s voice, John and Ida Sullivan launched their own investigation into Susan’s death and uncovered a catalogue of medical errors in the process. We also hear from Baroness Heather Hallet, the chair of the UK public inquiry, and from Fran Hall and other members of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Fran Hall @FranFD1 John and Ida Sullivan www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org / @CovidJusticeuk Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast Blog: markhonigsbaum.substack.com This episode of Going Viral has been produced with the support of a grant from the Higher Education Innovation Fund at City, University of London. It is part of the project, “Commemorating Covid, Remembering Pandemics”, If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you! | |||