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What The Health with Emily Casey

After five years, millions of reads globally and more than 10,000 people attending events, What The Health is finally bringing its content and conversations to a podcast you can listen to on the go. Expect high-quality yaps with some of the smartest people in health innovation.

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What the show stands for

What The Health cuts through the BS in health innovation with honest conversations, rants, bants, practical insights and the people shaping what’s next. Less hype. More signal.

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Keep up without keeping tabs on everything.

Read the What The Health newsletter for sharp takes on the health stories worth your attention. We also host events and run a private community for people shaping the future of health.

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WTH is going on in health tech

Emily Casey breaks down the health and health-tech stories that actually matter. The trends, the data and the receipts, so you don't have to.
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EP. 06 · 15 October 2026

Longevity BS, Breakthroughs and What Comes Next

In Part Two of my conversation with Dr Steven Lu, Everlab’s co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, we unpack what’s actually worth measuring, which treatments show real promise, what’s still experimental and what the future of preventative healthcare could look like.

EP. 05 · 8 October 2026

The Everlab Journey and Building Preventative Health

In Part One of this two-part conversation, I sit down with Dr Steven Lu, Everlab’s co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, to unpack how they actually built it, and what it takes to turn the promise of longevity into real-world medicine.

EP. 04 · 14 September 2026

The Cancer Vaccine That Worked and the Wearables That Don't?

EP. 03 · 27 August 2026

The Psychedelic Resurgence: From Counterculture to Clinical Breakthrough with Dr Michael Winlo

Dr Michael Winlo, Chief Scientific Officer at Emyria, on how Australia became the first country where psychiatrists can prescribe MDMA and psilocybin — and what it will take to move psychedelic-assisted therapy from last resort to mainstream care.

EP. 02 · 14 August 2026

HealthGPT and What Happens Now AI Is Table Stakes

A survey of 1,800 clinicians across 25 countries found 83% adopted AI before their workplace had any governance. Emily Casey, Dr Simon Kos and Dr Janice Tan unpack what happens once AI scribes become table stakes.

EP. 01 · 26 July 2026

The A$2.2B Myricx Bio Deal, AI's Healthcare Land Grab and Preventive Health

Novartis has agreed to acquire Myricx Bio for up to US$1.5 billion, approximately A$2.2 billion. Emily Casey, Dr Jackie Rabec and Dr Prashanth Rajan unpack what it means for biotech, AI, R&D policy and preventive health.

TRAILER · 25 July 2026

Introducing What The Health with Emily Casey

Five years of health innovation coverage, millions of reads, and a community of 11,000+.

How we roll
Candid conversations, with fun

Join Australia's and the world's leading minds shaping the future of health.

Cut through the BS

Learn what is actually happening beyond the headlines, what is worth paying attention to and why it matters.

Get smarter and stay ahead of the curve

Healthcare is hard, but keeping up shouldn't be. We make the signal easier to follow.

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Emily Casey

Emily Casey

Director & Head of Community

Emily Casey is the Director & Head of Community at What The Health, where she has spent five years building a global audience around health innovation through editorial, events and community.

On the podcast, she covers what is happening beyond the headlines, what is worth paying attention to and why it matters.

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What The Health is produced by Day One®, trusted partners in the technology space and the team that helped build Blackbird Ventures' Wild Hearts. Sister shows include First Cheque, Oversubscribed and In The Blink of AI, and episodes are cross-promoted across the network.

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