The Lancet Voice is a fortnightly podcast from the Lancet family of journals. Lancet editors and their guests unravel the stories behind the best global health, policy and clinical research of the day―and what it means for people around the world.

The Lancet Regional Health journals’ editors, in conversation with their authors, explore their latest open access research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. This podcast covers a broad range of topics through a regional lens, from climate change and health adaptation to surgical care capacity in the Pacific Island countries, the determinants of onset and prognosis of long COVID-19 to the opioid crisis in Mexico, and more.

Editors at The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from long COIVD outcomes to tobacco control, the management of uncontrolled asthma to intensive care medicine, and more.

Editors at The Lancet Oncology, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from early-stage breast cancer treatment to mRNA vaccines, the access to essential cancer medicines for children to measuring ovarian toxicity, and more.

Editors at The Lancet Healthy Longevity, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to this open access journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from dementia prevention to older people in the criminal justice system, the haematological malignancies in older people to the link between physical activity, sleep duration, and cognitive ageing, and more.

Hugh Thomas, Deputy Editor at The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explores their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from predicting clinical outcomes in NAFLD to immunosuppressant withdrawal in patients with Crohn’s disease, the primary antibiotic resistance of Helicobacter pylori to surgical versus non-surgica ...

Editors at The Lancet Neurology, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from sleep habits to amyloid biomarkers in Alzheimer’s, the diagnosis and classification of optic neuritis to treatment of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and more.

Sophia Davis, Senior Editor at The Lancet Psychiatry, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explores their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from premature mortality in people with mental illness to cranial electrostimulation therapy for depression, the importance of first-person stories to psychological therapy for sleep problems in young people at ris ...

Editors at The Lancet Microbe, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to this open access journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from using probiotics to reduce Staphylococcus aureus, to phage therapy and monitoring antimicrobial resistance using faecal metagenomes, and more.

Editors at The Lancet Global Health, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to this open access journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from the global burden of cervical cancer associated with HIV to financing primary health care, the role of poverty in the misuse of antibiotics to intimate partner violence, and more.

Peter Hayward, Editor-in-Chief, and Adrian Gonzalez-Lopez, Senior Editor at The Lancet HIV, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from treatments of children with HIV to COVID-19 and chemsex, the experiences of HIV among global Indigenous populations to intimate partner violence and women with HIV, and more.

Jessamy Bagenal, Chloe Wilson, and Callum Davidson—editors at The Lancet—and Gavin Cleaver, The Lancet Group’s Audio Producer, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers topics that advance the field of medical research, from exploring treatments to examining drug trials, public health outbreaks to surgical techniques, and more.

Rupa Sarkar, Editor-in-Chief, Diana Samuel, Deputy Editor, and Lucy Dunbar, Senior Editor at The Lancet Digital Health, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to this open access journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from using machine learning to predict mortality in prostate cancer and the need for feminist intersectionality in digital health, to ho ...

Lan-Lan Smith, Editor-in-Chief, and Emma Cookson, Senior Editor at The Lancet Haematology, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from racial and ethnic disparities in leukaemia survival outcomes to resuscitation with blood products compared with saline, the link between mental health and lymphoma to haemol ...

Saleha Hassan, Senior Editor at The Lancet Infectious Diseases, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explores their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from polio eradication in Africa to COVID-19 vaccines in Hong Kong, the treatment of early syphilis in adults to Mpox in the UK, and more.

Editors at eClinicalMedicine, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to this open access journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from maternal health in the perinatal period and beyond to access to cancer care for people experiencing homelessness, the impact of weight bias in health care to oral treatments for MRSA skin infections, and more.

Editors at The Lancet Rheumatology, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from disorders of the immune system to sex and gender in research design, the transitional care for adolescent patients with rheumatic diseases to care for undocumented immigrants, and more.

Our Editors and and the journal’s authors explore their research and its impact on people’s health, health care, and health policy in this regular podcast.

Editors at The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from thyroid cancer to childhood obesity, the mechanisms of ageing to erectile dysfunction, and more.

Editors at The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from the effects of climate change to gender equity in young people’s sexual and reproductive health rights, violence against children to allergies, and more.

Editors at eBioMedicine, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. A monthly audio companion to this open access journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from climate change and health to microplastics in human tissues, the microbiome-gut-brain axis and binge drinking to computational pathology in 2030, and more.