Doctors’ Notes: Noise
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🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Sshhh! Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken are back to hear more about noise in this episode of Doctors’ Notes. Continuing their conversation with Charlotte Clark, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at City St George’s, University of London, they dig deeper into the science around environmental noise and its damaging effects on our health and wellbeing. Charlotte tells Chris and Xand about her research exploring the effects of noise on children’s learning and development, as well a current project to assess the impact of night flights.
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Presenters: Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken Guest: Professor Charlotte Clark Producers: William Hornbrook and Jo Rowntree Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar Editor: Kirsten Lass Assistant Producer: Maia Miller-Lewis Tech Lead: Reuben Huxtable Social Media: Leon Gower Digital Lead: Richard Berry Composer: Phoebe McFarlane Sound Design: Melvin Rickarby
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| 1:08.9 | That's right, Zandi, and we've just finished recording a conversation with Professor |
| 1:12.4 | Charlotte Clark. She's an environmental epidemiologist and the director of the Population Health |
| 1:16.8 | Research Institute at City St George's at the University of London. |
| 1:20.7 | Luckily for us, she lives and breathes the health and well-being impacts of environmental |
| 1:24.9 | noise. In the main episode, we discussed what noise is that it's harmful |
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