GP046: The Challenges of Making a Truly Global Podcast
Release Date: 07/01/2023
Global Physio Podcast
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In the Palestine Series, we sit down with three physiotherapists from Canada, the UK, and Australia, and a psychotherapist from Canada to explore their experiences with anti-Palestinian racism in healthcare systems. Together, we reflect on our personal and professional connections to Palestine, how the ongoing occupation across Palestine and ongoing genocide against Palestinians living in Gaza shape not only lives on the ground but also clinical and rehab spaces globally. In this series, we speak openly about discrimination, advocacy, and responsibility. We examine how politics enters...
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This episode we welcome back Steph Lurch to talk about her recent 30 day Health Justice Series, that has been taking place across several of her accounts. If you liked this conversation, head to to check out the rest of the content. You can find out more about Steph Lurch here: Website: TikTok: medicine.needs.medicine Art Work as part of the Health Justice Series: Charmaine Lurch at Bio: Stephanie Lurch (BScPT, MEd, Doctoral student) is a physiotherapist, educator, and health justice scholar with more than 30 years of experience at the intersection of...
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This episode, which was recorded in early 2024, features two physiotherapists, Adelaide Rusinga and Dr. Nathalia Costa, who share the learnings from their paper titled "Exploring the Systemic Structures that Affect Access to Physical Therapist Services for Non-Indigenous Black People in Australia." Their research set out to explore the perspectives of non-Indigenous Black people when it comes to the physiotherapy profession in Australia. We discuss the intersection of race, whiteness and the physiotherapy profession, and ways to move towards a more culturally aware and appropriate profession....
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Today’s guest is Ray Gates, an Aboriginal Australian (Bundjalung) physiotherapist with over 20 years experience as a PT and with Indigenous health. He was the first Aboriginal PT to become a member and later Chairperson of the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s (then) Indigenous Health Committee. He was a founder of the first Indigenous Physiotherapy Support Network in Australia, which later became the National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Physiotherapists (NAATSIP). He has been involved with Indigenous health both in Australia and around the world in a variety...
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In today’s episode, the co-hosts interview Stephanie Lurch, who is a storyteller, activist, leader and physiotherapist. Stephanie discusses her keynote address at the CPA National Congress in 2024 entitled “Manifesto of a Critical Consciousness”, and so much more in this inspiring episode.
info_outlineToday’s episode is all about reflexivity. The show co-hosts discuss their individual positionalities and examine how their lived experiences and socialization may influence the podcast. The show co-hosts share their dream of creating a podcast that is relevant to physiotherapists all over the world, amplifies voices that have been historically silenced and breaks down barriers with regard to knowledge translation. Ultimately, the hope is to bring together a community of curious physiotherapists who can learn from and inspire one another. Whether you’re a physiotherapist in the Global North or Global South, this podcast is for you.
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