Dr Fiona Godlee discusses health, climate change and the role of the BMJ

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English - May 24, 2021 16:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MB
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Dr Will Liddell and Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief of the British Medical Journal, discuss the threats to public health posed by environmental change and the role of medical journals in alerting doctors to the challenges we face in confronting climate change. We also discuss the role of the BMJ in campaigning for greater transparency in clinical research and issues of gender and race in medicine.
Sound engineering by Rob Wynne-Griffiths.