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The Envirohealth Podcast
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Exploring the intricate world of environmental health on our podcast! Join us as we chat with researchers, decoding the causes and effects shaping our health.
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"Children are heavily dependent on providers for nutrition. If anyone in the family is struck with illness or financial issues, it impacts the child's physical and mental health." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#FamilyHealth #ChildWelfare
September 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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"We need things that work around busy lifestyles of families - something accessible to all, not just families who can afford the time or money to focus on diet and exercise." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#HealthEquity #AccessibleCare
September 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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"The UK ranks 30th out of 49 OECD countries for infant mortality, behind most of Europe except Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia. We've fallen from being world leaders." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#InfantMortality #HealthDecline
September 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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"Mental health needs boomed post-COVID, especially among adolescents. Pediatricians aren't classically trained for mental health treatment, but we're addressing that gap." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#COVID19Impact
September 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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"A doctor can't prescribe food. If families can't afford healthy meals, don't have time to meal plan, they won't be able to provide good nutrition." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#FoodSecurity
September 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"Rising homelessness, single-parent families, dual-income families with rising cost of living - it's much harder to tend to children's basic needs like healthy food." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#SocialDeterminants #ChildPoverty
September 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"Children eat at least five meals at school. That's an opportunity to optimise their diet around friends and take that home rather than asking for chocolates." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#SchoolMeals
September 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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"Nordic countries have longer parental leaves, later school start ages, and each child gets basic supplies when born. If you invest in first five years, you get a healthier population." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#NordicModel
September 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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"We're seeing increasing survivors of illnesses that would have been fatal - premature babies, genetic syndromes. They're becoming teenagers needing transition care." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#MedicalAdvances
September 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"The UK removed children from coal mines over a century ago, brought in hygiene, clean water, vaccinations, and free NHS access. That made us world leaders in child health." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#HealthHistory #PublicHealth
September 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"Technology is a double-edged sword. Someone in a deprived area can access the same information as someone with massive wealth, but there are also dangerous social media trends." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz #HealthEquity
September 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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"The differences between grandparents, parents and children are massive. We haven't built our healthcare systems to address these problems." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#GenerationalChange
September 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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"Most pediatricians work with under-fives, so we're not used to asking patients about sex, sexual preferences, or drug use. We need training for adolescent care." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#AdolescentHealth #MedicalTraining
September 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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"It's not as simple as throwing a medication at it anymore. It's not as simple as throwing money at it either. These families are in complex contextual situations with multiple needs." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#HolisticCare
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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"You can start to predict patients who will need intervention later. Toddlers with constipation, then dental caries at 4-5, attention issues at 5-6, then unhealthy relationships with food." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
September 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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"What you're getting now is people coming in with dietary, exercise, mental health related conditions that the NHS doesn't have the right infrastructure to deal with." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#LifestyleMedicine #HealthcareSystem
September 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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"We almost lost an entire generation of breastfeeding mothers when formula companies had growing popularity. Now we're trying to retrain people to do something quite natural." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#Breastfeeding #InfantHealth
September 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"Some parents were killed by COVID. You have an increase of single parents struggling to balance looking after their own parents and children in an already strained situation." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#COVID19Impact
September 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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"We've got fewer clinicians serving an increasing population that's getting sicker. People are burnt out, not feeling paid enough, so they're going to different industries or countries." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#NHSCrisis
September 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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"A doctor can't just provide a pill for this. We need to look at family nutrition, but if they don't have skills or time to meal plan and cook, they won't be able to do it." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#LifestyleMedicine
September 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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"23% of child deaths are potentially avoidable if we can eliminate social deprivation. That translates to 700 additional deaths per year that could be avoided." - Prof. K LeLueite
Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#ChildMortality #SocialDeprivation
September 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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"The earliest significant overdose I've seen has been probably 10, 11 years old. It's really sad and really young to even be thinking about ending your own life." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#MentalHealth #ChildSafety
September 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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"When I was training, you would never see someone with type 2 diabetes during their pediatric lifespan. Now you are getting patients with type 2 diabetes before age 18." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#ChildHealth #Type2Diabetes
September 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The EnviroHealth Podcast continues Season 2 with a crucial conversation with Dr. Sabena Kagalwalla, consultant paediatrician and Innovation Fellow at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
August 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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"We needed a game changer. The Ultra Low Emission Zone was astonishingly effective — roads that were 2-3 times legal limits saw 44% reduction." - Dr. Fuller

Episode: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OUW6258AxTm7n-pCOsF

#ULEZ #PolicySuccess
July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM