Dr. Romina Tejada (Montreal) and Dr. Juliana Rodriguez (Bogotá) join senior editor Maria Augusta Dario to discuss their new modeling study on switching from the quadrivalent to the nonavalent HPV vaccine in Colombia, and what it means for cervical cancer elimination.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(26)00113-4/fulltext

In this episode, our editor Taissa Vila speaks with Dr Luisa Brant and Dr Mariana Felisbino-Mendes about their capstone Global Burden of Disease analysis for Brazil, tracing major health trends from 1990 to 2023. Together, they unpack Brazil’s gains in life expectancy, the years of progress reversed by COVID-19, and the stark inequalities exposed across Brazilian states. The conversation also examines the impact of pandemic management, emerging post-pandemic challenges such as non-communicable diseases, and what Brazil’s experience can teach other middle-income countries about health system resilience.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(26)00071-2/fulltext

Dr. L’espérance, an early-career scientist at Stanford University, USA, will talk about the latest estimates on the incidence and mortality rates of renal cell carcinoma in California, USA, data published in the April 2026 issue of The Lancet Regional Health – Americas.

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