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Peter Goodwin reports from the 2009 Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology in Orlando

Andy Haines

Sharon Huttly, Dean of Studies of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the School’s Director, Andy Haines tell Peter Goodwin about their plans for expanding “distance learning” following news that they’ve received the prestigious Gates Award For Global Health for outstanding achievements over a sustained period of time particularly in resource-poor settings. One of the 2,500 students currently enrolled from 120 countries, David Githanga, a consultant paediatric cardiologist in Nairobi, explains how his studies can feed directly into government plans for improving public health.

Sarah Staedke And Friends

Peter Goodwin talks with Sarah Staedke of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who’s based in Kampala, Uganda, about her new research findings that giving parents and carers supplies of anti-malaria medicines at home to treat feverish children didn’t have much impact on malaria in an urban setting and could have some risks.

Sandra Mounier-Jack

— Peter Goodwin asks Sandra Mounier-Jack, expert in Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, if the preparations taking place all over the world in the face of the threat from “swine ‘flu” are sufficient to protect us; and what further advice she has to offer coming out of her research on the preparedness of countries all over the world to face a possible wave of influenza.