Tmc Podcast: Interviews With Medical Specialists

Dr Alessandro Demaio is a doctor in the field of public health that works for the World Health Organisation. He has pioneered several global public health movements, including NCD free, the UN decade of action on nutrition, and Festival 21. Alessandro's work has taken him all around the world, from assisting aid workers in Sri Lanka after the tsunami, Copenhagen - where he completed his PhD in public health - Harvard University, where he pursued a post doctorate fellowship, Geneva, for his work with the WHO, and even Mongolia! Listen in to hear what it was exactly that swayed Alessandro from aiming towards life as a rural GP to applying for and being accepted as an intern at the WHO. It was in this role that he realised that preventable diseases were found "everywhere", not just in developed nations. Controlling preventable diseases has become the force that drives him to achieve his lofty goals. The biggest struggles Alessandro faces are the requirement to be "cautious" with what he says when representing