Planet Hope: Establishing a healthier global population with Mark Kendall
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This is Planet Hope, a new podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by Stories of Our Times as a bonus weekly series each Saturday.
Medical inequity jeopardises the safety of everyone and contributes to growing inequalities in and between countries. Take vaccinations for example, we know how important they are for ensuring a longer and healthier life, yet during the Covid-19 pandemic statistics have shown that of the more than 10 billion doses of the coronavirus vaccine distributed worldwide, only one percent have been administered in low-income countries.
Environment Editor for The Times, Adam Vaughan talks with biomedical engineer and Rolex Awards for Enterprise Laureate Mark Kendall to investigate how his medical innovations are revolutionising modern medicine and allowing for more accessible health care worldwide- from vaccinations in the form of a patch, to micro-wearables that can show early warning signs of a heart attack.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Manveen bringing you an episode from a new podcast series from The Times |
| 0:05.1 | in partnership with Rolex and its perpetual planet initiative, Planet Hope. |
| 0:10.3 | In this series, Adam Vaughn, the environment editor for The Times, |
| 0:14.4 | asks why our planet is changing so rapidly and meets leading experts from around the world |
| 0:21.0 | who are trying to turn the tide. Through its perpetual planet initiative, |
| 0:25.7 | Rolex supports individuals and organisations who go above and beyond to safeguard and preserve |
| 0:32.5 | our planet for the next generation. |
| 0:43.2 | Vaccinations. They reduce the risk of getting a disease by working with your body's natural |
| 0:48.4 | defenses to build protection. And as modern science has evolved, we now have vaccines to prevent |
| 0:53.9 | more than 20 life-fretting diseases, helping people of all ages live longer, healthier lives. |
| 1:00.2 | In fact, the World Health Organization has recorded that immunisation currently prevents |
| 1:05.1 | three to five million deaths every year, from diseases like tetanus, diphtheria, influenza, |
| 1:11.3 | measles and more. But despite our awareness of how crucial immunisation is for global health, |
| 1:16.8 | there's a large part of the world which is failed by vaccinations. |
| 1:20.7 | Billions of people are unvaccinated against Covid, |
| 1:24.0 | and the vast majority of those who are unvaccinated are not so by choice. |
| 1:28.8 | Vaccine inequity happens mostly in low-income countries, where facilities and economies |
| 1:34.0 | are less developed. And if the Covid pandemic taught us anything, it's that vaccine inequality |
| 1:39.3 | is still a challenge we've yet to get right. Of the more than 10 billion doses of the coronavirus |
| 1:44.0 | vaccine distributed worldwide, only 1% have been administered in low-income countries. |
| 1:50.8 | Medical inequality jeopardises the safety of everyone, and contributes to growing inequalities |
| 1:55.8 | between and within countries. Not only does it prolong the risk of life-fretting diseases, |
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