{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Let's Talk About Women's Health","title":"International Women's Day Special - 200 years of Women's Health","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3769,"description":"Welcome to the first episode of the UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health Podcast, Let’s Talk About Women’s Health. For this special International Women’s Day 2026 edition (Healthy Lives for Healthy Women), host Dr Zeynep Gurtin is joined by the Institute’s Director, Professor Anna David, and Professor Joyce Harper, to launch a new series exploring timely, controversial, and important questions in women’s health, bringing together clinical, scientific, and social science perspectives. Together they reflect on UCL’s bicentenary and its long legacy in women’s health and women’s education, before moving into what the Institute looks like today: a life course approach that connects adolescence, reproductive years, preconception health, pregnancy, menopause, and healthy ageing. The conversation ranges from how teaching and diagnostics have transformed (from early genetic testing advances to today’s rapid microarray and sequencing) to the real-world challenges facing patients and clinicians, including medical misogyny, compassion fatigue, time-pressured care, and the “Wild West” of health misinformation online. Now more than ever we need to understand the importance of evidence-based guidance (and where to find it), the harms of unproven products and “quick fixes” (from menopause supplements to IVF add-ons), and the need to support healthier lives through practical pillars of health and happiness. The episode closes with a discussion of shared responsibility in contraception (including the case for male contraceptive options) and two personal health tips: find movement you enjoy (even learning how to run properly) and get “in tune” with your own body by tracking how lifestyle affects you. Further Links UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/womens-health Follow UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health: https://linktr.ee/uclifwh Dr Zeynep Gurtin UCL Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/67708-zeynep-gurtin Professor Anna...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/a42k14Ns5viQ1mYPxtAA3XLFEPbGgP0_nYYxW0uKQgM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OWY1/M2U3OTI3ZWUyMDNh/YzA2MmE1N2JhMWNj/MTlmYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}