628 - Scientists in Exile: When Researchers and Clinicians are Forced to Flee
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw was a research scientist at Myanmar's ministry of health before she emigrated to teach global health at Hong Kong University. After the military coup in 2021, she and many of her friends and colleagues felt unsafe returning to Myanmar and some even had their passports blacklisted. Thin Saw talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about her experience, what happens when doctors and researchers are forced to flee in conflict situations, and what the scientific community can do to help those in exile.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:32.3 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.9 | Today, scientists in exile. |
| 0:41.5 | Piu-Pu Thinzaw is a lecturer at Hong Kong University teaching global health. Previously, she was a research scientist and epidemiologist at the Ministry |
| 0:47.8 | of Health in Myanmar, where there was a military coup in 2021. Dr. Thin-Zaw speaks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about her experience and the experience of physicians |
| 0:58.1 | and other scientists forced to undercover or into exile around the world. |
| 1:03.1 | Let's listen. |
| 1:05.1 | Dr. Pupu-Thin-Saw, thank you so much for joining me on Public Health On Call. |
| 1:10.4 | I really appreciate your time, and I think it might help just to start by introducing yourself to our audience. |
| 1:18.4 | Thank you so much, Dr. George, for inviting me to this very important podcast. |
| 1:23.4 | So my name is Piu-Pew. |
| 1:25.3 | I am a lecturer at the School of Public Health |
| 1:28.4 | at Hong Kong University. |
| 1:30.3 | Before I migrated to Hong Kong, |
| 1:33.3 | I was a research scientist at the Department |
| 1:36.9 | of Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Myanmar. |
| 1:41.2 | Did you explain a little bit more about your work |
| 1:43.8 | at the Ministry of Health in Myanmar? |
| 1:46.6 | As a research scientists, I participated in a lot of population surveys focusing on reproductive |
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