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#71 – Saloni Dattani on Malaria Vaccines and Missing Data in Global Health

#71 – Saloni Dattani on Malaria Vaccines and Missing Data in Global Health

FromHear This Idea


#71 – Saloni Dattani on Malaria Vaccines and Missing Data in Global Health

FromHear This Idea

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Length:
173 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Saloni Dattani is a Researcher at Our World in Data, and a founder & editor at the online magazine Works in Progress. She holds a PhD in psychiatric genetics from King’s College London.
You can see more links and a full transcript at hearthisidea.com/episodes/dattani.
In this episode we talk about:

The history of malaria and attempts to eradicate it
The role of DDT and insecticide spraying campaigns — and why they were scaled down
Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner
What comes after vaccine discovery — rolling out the RTS,S vaccine
New funding models to accelerate similar life-saving research, like vaccines for TB and HIV
Why so much global health data is missing, and why that matters
How the ‘million deaths study’ revealed that about 50,000 deaths per year from snakebites in India went uncounted by health agencies

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Released:
Oct 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Hear This Idea is a podcast showcasing new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. Each episode has an accompanying write-up at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes.