The Deonandia Podcast

This is the home of the Deonandia Podcast.  The official description for the iTunes feed:

Lectures, opinions, insights and interviews from Dr Raywat Deonandan: epidemiologist, global health researcher, journalist, novelist, and science communicator.

In the live lectures, the audio is pretty crappy.  This is an evolving process, so please bear with me! And do visit my other podcasts:

 

This image was stolen from the Knightwise podcast homepage (knightwise.com/)

This image was stolen from the Knightwise podcast homepage (knightwise.com/)

 

Mike Donofrio and Dr Raywat Deonandan talk about the waning stigma of the UFO topic among mainstream scientists.

Today’s episode is the audio from a presentation I gave to Occupational Health Clinics For Ontario Workers Inc, or OHCOW, all about Rapid Antigen Tests, or RATs.

It’s a question I get a lot these days: should I give my child the COVID-19 vaccine? Well, it’s ultimately a personal decision that you should take up with your child’s pediatrician. In this brief episode, I outline a framework for how to think about risk vs reward.

Today’s episode is the audio from an interview with Sweden’s Dr Anders Tegnell from March 3, 2021. The interview was organized and lead by Dr Ziad El-Khatib of the Facebook Epidemiology group.

In this special podcast episode, I’ve solicited pressing questions from the general public about the new COVID-19 vaccines. After receiving about 26 questions, I reached out to a true expert to help answer them: Dr Erling Rud, a virologist and vaccinologist with decades of experience researching vaccines for viruses like Ebola and HIV/AIDS.

Those at the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder are always disproportionately affected by public health crises, never more so than with an infectious disease epidemic.

The vaccine data are compelling and there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. But the tunnel is long and dark. So how do we manage until the vaccine gives us herd immunity? Right now all across Canada there is a call for a comprehensive strategy. Here are some of the options.

Right now in Canada, new daily cases of COVID-19 are increasing seemingly exponentially. But we are not seeing a similar increase in either hospitalizations or deaths. I present five (and maybe a sixth) possible explanations.

I attempt to explain what we mean by a “second wave” of COVID-19, and how it is 100% driven by human behaviour.

I’ve been ignoring this podcast of late and focusing more on writing COVID-related blog posts. So I’ve decided to triple-down on the messaging and am recording both video and audio companion casts for the most read blog posts. Today, I talk about the overall plan for opening public schools safely in the era of COVID-19.

This is the audio of a presentation  gave to the PhD students in the Population Health programme at the University of Ottawa

This is the audio of a lecture I gave to an undergraduate class at the University of Ottawa

This is the audio of a lecture I gave to an undergraduate class at Carleton University

This is the audio of the keynote lecture I gave to the 2019 University of Ottawa Healthcare Symposium

This is the audio of a lecture I gave to a class on science communication. 

This is the audio of the keynote lecture I gave at the Action Global Health Network conference at the University of Ottawa. 

My presentation at the 6th annual CHEO Global Health Half Day.

This is the third of three presentations I gave to the attendees of a summer institute on social justice, hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology in Ahmedabad, India.

The second of three presentations I gave to doctoral and post-doctoral students attending a special summer workshop on social justice, hosted at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar in Ahmedabad, India. 

A presentation I gave to doctoral and post-doctoral students attending a special summer workshop on social justice, hosted at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar in Ahmedabad, India. 

Michelle Brazeau, Jessica Colbourne and Fallon Melville examine a study titled, “Group support psychotherapy for depression treatment in people with HIV/AIDS in northern Uganda: a single-centre randomised controlled trial.”

Anika Suri and Patrick Van Loon examine a study titled, “Hazardous alcohol drinking and premature mortality in Russia: a population based case-control study.”

Audio of Dr Deonandan’s presentation on Reproductive Tourism, given at “Healthy Canada Conference 2017: Access to Affordable Medicines” .

Audio of Dr Deonandan’s presentation on refugee health, given to the student Medlife initiative at the University of Ottawa .

Audio of Dr Deonandan’s acceptance comments at the awards ceremony of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations’ Teaching Award.

Audio of a presentation given at the 2016 Dalla Lana School of Public Health conference in Toronto.

Audio of a presentation given at the 2016 AGHN Global Health conference in Ottawa.

Kristina Baier and Tujuanna Austin discuss maternal mortality in Tanzania.

Arone Fantaye, Shahram Sharify, and Sevgim Kiper discuss a paper no abortion in India.

Jessica Rocheleau discusses a paper on using mobile phones to help in the treatment of HIV in Cameroon

Amol Gill and Matthew Dawkins discuss a paper on Ebola via an interview with a fictional expert.

The Health Sciences Students Association of the University of Ottawa invited Dr Deonandan to say a few words about career planning.

My interview with two young Epidemiology professionals working in the nation’s capital.

I caught up with a couple of former students who are now doing graduate work in Vancouver.

My presentation at the Global Health Students and Young Professional Summit in Montreal. I served on the career panel. I didn’t have any slides; but I think the audio is sufficient!

The inaugural podcast of the IJHS journal, which I founded and presently advise, features myself and Stephen Kutcher discussing the present Canadian federal election through the lens of health scientists.

Part 2 of my conversation with public health expert Patrick Saunders-Hastings, in which we cover everything from whether breastfeeding makes babies smarter to whether your horoscope can predict your health.

California just made it it mandatory for children to be vaccinated against certain diseases. To talk about this event, and related topics in vaccination research, I spoke to public health expert Patrick Saunders-Hastings.

A discussion with a group of Indian university students about globalization, village leadership, female agency, and globalization.

This is the first of 7 guest podcasts produced by the graduate students of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences. In today’s episode, Lynne Jrade, Andréanne Chaumont,  Jennifer Kathleen Cano, and Katrina MacFarlane discuss a paper about defining race.

The graduate students of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences kindly asked me to talk to them about career planning.  Here’s what I told them.

“Quest Myth” sounds like December 25th to a kid with a lisp.

“The trick to writing is to write every day.” An interview with journalist, editorial writer, and senior communications adviser to several high ranking politicians, Mr. Neil Hrab.

The fifteenth and last in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Laetitia Kayitesi and Idil Houssein.

The fourteenth in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Stefan Litvinjenko and Kyle Alain Curtis.

The thirteenth in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Erika Frank.

The twelfth in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Swanti Deut, Yan Yan Lee, Sally Zhao, and Rima Elchamaa.

The eleventh in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Tayler Muldoon and Anne-Marie Hawco.

The tenth in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Mona Ahmad and Felicia Danesi.

The ninth in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Narineh Panoosian and Carina Saikaley.

The eighth in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Paul Do, Irene Fosu-Apraku, Pooneh Mirzakhalili, and Ahlam Awata.

The seventh in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Gavin Maludzinski, Cara Elliott, Melissa Sutaroski, and Haley Rowlandson.

The sixth in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Quinn Howard, Habon Warsame, Ihab Kandil, and Abdiasis Yalahow.

The fifth in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class. This installment has been produced by Khalil Dawod, Sarah Hognestad, Emma Daymond, and Clive Velkers.

The fourth in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  This episode was produced by Danielle Hemet,  Simran Sandhu, Laura Cummings, and Arlanna Pugh. 

The third in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  This episode is brought to us by Salma Ibrahim and Savroop Kullar. 

The second in a series of special podcasts featuring the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  This one is by Gabrielle Gareau and Melissa Lavigne.

This is the first of a series of special podcast episodes which will feature my students. As part of my 4th year class in International Health Theory, each group (or individual) selected a scholarly paper on an issue in global health and recorded a brief audio dissection of its implications. This episode is by Kinsey Beck.

One of my students couldn’t attend today’s lecture on health and climate change, so she asked me to podcast it for her!  So, why not?

Sponsored by the Canadian Association of Research in Regenerative Medicine, this live lecture was about how personal values become incorporated into scientific work.

As the University of Ottawa was in “lockdown” due to the shootings in Parliament, all classes were cancelled. Unfortunately, four students and I still showed up to my international health class. So I gave those four the lecture on “Hunger and Food Security”, recording the audio so I could stream it here.

Yesterday, a gunman murdered an unarmed soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa, then proceeded to shoot up Parliament itself before being killed by one of the Parliamentary constables. In this episode, I observe the tone of the city and the university campus during the lockdown.

Back in 2013, I took a trip to Istanbul and recorded some observations of some of the more fascinating aspects of that wonderful city. I’ve finally woven them into a brief podcast.

Interviewed by Caity Jackson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden for the YouTube show, “This Week In Global Health with Dr Greg Martin,” on the topics of global health ethics, career planning, and the future of global health.

Interviewed on CKNW radio by Squire Barnes about the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the USA.

A lecture to my 4th year International Health Theory class about the “missing girls of India”, the millions of unborn Indian girls removed from the projected population through generations of sex selective abortion.

A presentation to a doctoral class at the Institute of Population Health at the University of Ottawa

A presentation to the Action Global Health conference at the University of Ottawa

A guest lecture given to an undergraduate class in international development, about my various projects in Guyana.

Assistant Editor of CMAJ, and new Editor in Chief of the CSEB National Newsletter, Erin Russell was kind enough to give a brief workshop to the editors of our student-run journal, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences.

A live presentation on the new Canadian Health Accord, featuring Dr Jack Kitts, Dr Chris Simpson, Dr Michael Rachlis, and Dr Raywat Deonandan.

A live panel discussion with Dr Ron Labonte, Dr Raywat Deonandan, Ric Esther Bienstock, moderated by Dr Valorie Crooks, on medical tourism in Canada.

Webinar given on behalf of the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Recorded in the frontier town of Bartica in Guyana

Recorded in the AmerIndian village of Capoey in Guyana

Recorded in the AmerIndian village of Capoey in Guyana

Recorded in the AmerIndian village of Capoey in Guyana

This is a live lecture given to the attendees of the University of Ottawa Health Symposium

This is a live lecture given by PhD student Kahina Abdesselam

This was a live workshop given to the graduate students of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences

This was a live lecture given to the graduate students of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences

This was a live lecture given to Family Medicine residents of the Elizabeth Bruyere hospital in Ottawa

I had a great conversation with two impressive scholars, lubricated by unspeakable amounts of alcohol.

 

Credits: Opening and closing theme music, “Indian Journey”, composed by Stephen William Cornish.

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