EMJ Podcast | Quickfire & Deep Dive
Why does healthcare focus so heavily on physical and mental health, while social health is often overlooked? In this series, host Catherine Glass speaks with Lalith Wijedoru, founder of Behind Your Mask, London, UK, about why social connection is a fundamental pillar of health. Across four episodes, they explore loneliness as a public health issue, the power of storytelling, and how social health can be embedded into policy and practice.
Speaker Bio:
Lalith Wijedoru is an educator, researcher, and paediatric emergency physician with extensive experience working in low-resource settings across Asia. Now an independent wellbeing consultant, he founded Behind Your Mask, London, UK, to use storytelling as a tool for fostering human connection, emotional wellbeing, and social health within healthcare systems.
