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The Meaning of Health Podcast

The Meaning of Health Podcast

A podcast that explores a range of health and health-related issues that affect people in the community. We sit down with lived experience, academic, and practitioner experts to take a deep dive into many different areas of health. We are based at the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Western Australia.

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Episode 76 - From Prison to a PhD with Damien Linnane

The Meaning of Health Podcast ·

2022/11/10

We sit down for a virtual chat with Damien Linnane, a exhibited artist, published author and PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales. Damien discusses his lived experience of being in prison, and why he is focusing his research on how being excluded from receiving health services funded by Medicare impacts on the health and wellbeing of people incarcerated in prisons across Australia. Damien generously shares a range of life experiences with us, including serving in the army,

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00:54:12

Episode 75 - The Ig Nobel Prizes 2022 with Courtney...

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2022/10/28

Welcome to a special episode where we take a look at research that won prizes as part of the 2022 Ig Nobel Prizes. Courtney looks at a study into the physiological effects of blind dating and Craig looks at a study that investigates whether eating ice cream could help to minimise some of the side effects of cancer treatment. For more on the Ig Nobel Prizes go here: https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2022 The study Courtney reviewed can be found here:

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01:27:34

Episode 74 - Data Privacy and Anonymisation with...

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2022/10/13

Data privacy has been in the news recently due to a recent large-scale customer data leak involving Optus in Australia. Another key area where data privacy applies is the area of population level health data, with these data often being used in research to investigate issues such as health problems and potential ways to prevent and treat them. Our guest in this episode is Emeritus Professor D’Arcy Holman, an accomplished and much awarded epidemiologist and law scholar who has worked across the

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01:09:37

Episode 73 - Living with HIV and Hepatitis C with...

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2022/09/29

Imagine for a second what it would be like to be reaching adulthood as a gay man in the early 1980s in Perth and be diagnosed with HIV, a new virus with no known treatment that was responsible for many deaths, particularly amongst your peers in the gay community. This is exactly the situation that our guest in this episode, Pete Townsend, found himself in. In the decades that followed, Pete was able to overcome this and other incredible health challenges (such as being diagnosed with Hepatitis C),

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01:11:19

Episode 72 - Zombie Ideas in Public Health with...

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2022/09/16

We welcome back to the podcast Associate Professor Katie Attwell from the UWA School of Social Sciences and for the first time Associate Professor Marco Rizzi from the UWA Law School. We discuss how a zombie health idea that was long debunked was endorsed by the courts in Italy, having a huge ramifications for public health in the country. Our conversation centres on a couple of court decisions around vaccines that individuals in Italy had claimed had caused them injury, resulting in them seeking

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01:24:26

Episode 71 - ARC Lifeblood and Research Ethics with...

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2022/09/01

In this episode we are lucky enough to chat with Dr Peter Bentley. With a history practicing as a GP before moving across to telephone triage service Health Direct, Peter also spent time as a Medical Director in Perth hospitals. Peter currently works with the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood service that facilitates blood donates and ensure that hospitals are supplied with much needed blood products, and also currently serves as the chair of the WA Department of Health’s Human Research Ethics

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Episode 70 - Learning With Indigenous Communities...

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2022/08/19

We are back with some more interesting guests as we round out our mini-series of episodes exploring working in research with Indigenous communities. We are joined by Dr Emma Haynes from the University of Western Australia and the Indigenous Knowledges Collaborative, and Mr Caleb Rivers, an Indigenous researcher from the University of Western Australia. We discuss Emma’s PhD work in rheumatic heart disease (RHD) as well as a range of work she is involved in with the Indigenous space, including with

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01:10:29

Episode 69 - Christmas in July with Courtney and Craig

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2022/08/04

Hello and a belated Merry Christmas (in July). Join us as we catch up for chat about what is happening in the world of health at the moment, and Craig’s recent travels to the UK. We touch on the recent Australian election and what that means for health and the climate as well as what we both have coming up for the rest of the year. We will be back soon another conversation with our next guests. Stay safe and dry! As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at:

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01:24:52

Episode 68 - Building Remote Indigenous Housing with...

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2022/07/18

Following on from NAIDOC week, we bring you another Indigenous-themed conversation as we chat with Kristian Rodd and Jara Romero from the Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health (FISH). Kristian and Jara share with us how they ended up traveling to the remote Indigenous community of Bawoorrooga in the Eastern Kimberly region of Western Australia to work with the community members to build a much needed house. They talk about the sub-standard accommodation that existed when they arrived, and the

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01:15:36

Episode 67 - Indigenous Research with Professor Megan...

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2022/07/05

Welcome to a very special NAIDOC week episode of the Meaning of Health. We have a virtual sit down with Indigenous researcher Professor Megan Williams from the University of Technology Sydney about her journey into academia and the many fascinating people she has met and worked with along the way. We discuss the importance of Indigenous voices having a central role in research, and how much we all have to learn about each other across the different parts of Australia. We also touch on some of the

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01:07:35

Episode 66 - Comic Book Contracting with Professor...

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2022/06/10

Welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health where we “sit down” for a virtual chat with Professor Camilla Andersen from the UWA Law School/Comic Book Contracts and Mr Peter Corner from Comic Book Contracts. Both our guest hail from Denmark originally and now call Perth home. We discuss how they have been assisting clients with visual contracts, an alternative to the long and wordy documents that often leave people’s eyes glazed over. We discuss some notable examples where large corporations

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00:52:25

Episode 65 - Addiction and Recovery Part 4 with Lee

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2022/05/26

Welcome back to another podcast episode as we sit down with the final guest from our series with the peer support workers from Doors Wide Open in Bunbury in Western Australia. Lee talks us through his experience with addiction and recovery, with a relationship breakdown being a major factor in Lee’s experience in getting involved in using methamphetamine and finding himself in trouble with the law. Lee’s experience saw him enter rehab before COVID19 had arrived in Australia, and come out a few

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01:10:22

Episode 64 - SToP Trial, Aboriginal Skin Health with...

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2022/05/10

In this episode we chat with Dr Hannah Thomas from the Telethon Kids Institute. Hannah talks to us about her work in the See, Treat, Prevent (SToP) trial which aims to treat and prevent skin problems associated with scabies and skin sores in regional and remote Aboriginal communities in the north of Western Australia. Hannah completed a PhD in wound healing mechanisms, before then going on to do a Master of Science Communication, both skills that she has utilised in her work with SToP. We discuss

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00:49:23

Episode 63 - Addiction and Recovery Part 3 with Tania

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2022/04/22

We bring you part 3 of our series chatting with peer support workers from Doors Wide Open in Bunbury. In this episode we sit down with Tania, originally from New Zealand and recovering from methamphetamine addiction. Tania talks us through her experience working in the pharmacy sector, and also challenges she has faced such as family and domestic violence, being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, and working in the sex industry. Tania also chats to us about what it has been like to be

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00:54:51

Episode 62 - Cannabis Treatment for Cancer and...

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2022/04/05

What if we told you that cannabis may help people survive pancreatic cancer? Or that cannabis could possibly be used to treat obesity? This is precisely what Professor Marco Falasca from the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute at Curtin University is working on at the moment. Marco specialises in cell metabolism research, with a lot of his recent work focussing on cannabis as a treatment for cancer and obesity. We chat with Marco about his impressive international CV that saw him leave his

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00:52:13

Episode 61 - Addiction and Recovery Part 2 with Miranda

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2022/03/18

We bring you our second episode in our series from the peer support team from Doors Wide Open in Bunbury, this time chatting with Miranda. This conversation was particularly intense, as Miranda discussed some very heavy issues and experiences with us, after navigating her way from a pretty successful career in real estate through drug addiction, domestic violence, suicide, homelessness and contact with the justice system. Despite all the extreme situations Miranda has faced, her story is ultimately

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01:02:55

Episode 60 - COVID and the Law with Dr Murray Wesson

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2022/03/04

This week we change direction and bring you a conversation with Dr Murray Wesson from the Law School at the University of Western Australia. Murray brings a wealth of experience having studied legal systems from around the world, starting in South Africa, spending some time in the UK, and now Australia. Murray is an expert in human rights and constitutional law, and talks us through how these areas of law have played a part in the various State and Commonwealth Government responses to the COVID19

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01:00:37

Episode 59 - Addiction and Recovery Part 1 with Adam...

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2022/02/18

Welcome to our first episode back for 2022 after a bit of a break. This episode is the first in a series of conversations that we will bring you from people who have experienced and are now recovering from drug addiction who all work at Doors Wide Open, a drop in service for people dealing with drug or alcohol problems in Bunbury, Western Australia. To kick off the series, we have a fascinating conversation with Adam, the peer-support team leader at Doors Wide Open. Adam frankly discusses his

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00:54:37

Episode 58 - Christmas 2021 with Courtney and Craig

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2021/12/23

We have made it to the last episode of 2021! As is becoming a bit of a tradition, we bring you a rambling recap of the year and throw in some discussion on some of the light hearted pieces that are published in the BMJ and MJA Christmas issues. We had a couple of issues with our recording for this episode, so we have gone with our backup recording which sounds a little different to usual, but hopefully no less entertaining. You can see more of the BMJ Christmas issue here: 39 articles published

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Episode 57 - The Public Health Workforce with Dr Rory...

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2021/12/17

We are joined in this episode by Dr Rory Watts who recently graduated with a PhD from the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Western Australia. Rory has had an interesting journey through academia and the private sector that has seen him study in the areas of medical science and public health, ultimately focusing on the area of health economics. Rory is currently employed by the World Health Organization (WHO) where he works designing mathematical models that can be used to

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