A podcast where people get to learn more about public health work in Africa and how to navigate their public health careers.
Each episode features an in depth interview with a public health practitioner and/or researcher from an African country and/or working in African countries in public health.
Conversation is about how they ended up working in public health, what they do at a high level in their current work, what they love about their field and career path and what words of wisdom they would like to share with the audience.
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A podcast where people get to learn more about public health work in Africa and how to navigate their public health careers.
Each episode features an in depth interview with a public health practitioner and/or researcher from an African country and/or working in African countries in public health.
Conversation is about how they ended up working in public health, what they do at a high level in their current work, what they love about their field and career path and what words of wisdom they would like to share with the audience.
In this episode we talked with Siyabonga Ndwandwe, a computational health economist from Eswatini currently based in London about his to journey to working in Public health and what it has been like for him.
In the episode we discussed:
What is computational health economics and what that entails
His background and motivation to study health economics and work in public health
Using an economic framework, economics principles and tools, to understand health care system and answer and solve health related problems
What type of health data is there, the different sources, who collects it and why?
Privacy , security and the need for regulation of using health data in the world of Big Data
Stakeholders in public health and how they are involved in the work
The kinds of questions being answered in the field of health economics and in Siya’s work
What a typical day, or typical week looks like in his current role
Highlights of different roles and projects that Siya has done in the different roles and countries he has worked in
What public health means to Siyabonga and how he defines it
The Public Health Elephant!
What he likes about Health Systems Research
Siya’s favorite things about working in public health
A little bit of ethics and philosophy of economics in health systems using COVID as an example
Challenges that come with working with data depending on the context
The difference between learning how to work and learning the work
Word to the wise
Utano Public Health Chats
A podcast where people get to learn more about public health work in Africa and how to navigate their public health careers.
Each episode features an in depth interview with a public health practitioner and/or researcher from an African country and/or working in African countries in public health.
Conversation is about how they ended up working in public health, what they do at a high level in their current work, what they love about their field and career path and what words of wisdom they would like to share with the audience.
