The Health, Wellness & Wellbeing Hour
Trusted health conversations that inform, connect and give communities a voice.
Produced and hosted by Global Villaje Media and broadcast through Chalkhill Community Radio, the programme brings together health professionals, community organisations, advocates and people with lived experience for accessible conversations about health.
Health information through human conversation
Health information is often communicated through reports, websites and leaflets. These resources are important, but they do not always answer people’s questions, reflect their experiences or build the trust needed for meaningful engagement.
Each programme combines professional insight, lived experience and practical information. Complex issues are explored in clear language, with particular attention to health inequalities and conditions that disproportionately affect Black African and Caribbean communities.
More than an interview
- Improve health literacy.
- Amplify lived experience.
- Build understanding and trust.
- Address barriers to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and support.
- Extend selected conversations through audio, video and social-media content.
Conversation themes
Bringing different voices together
Depending on the subject, a conversation may include professionals, researchers, charities, community and faith leaders, advocates, people living with a condition, unpaid carers, family members, service providers and commissioners.
Sponsored Health Conversation Package
NHS organisations, charities, public bodies, research teams and responsible businesses can commission or sponsor a professionally hosted conversation around a relevant health or community priority.
Packages are tailored according to scope, outputs and distribution requirements.
Respectful, responsible and culturally informed
GVM prepares contributors, explains the format, agrees appropriate boundaries and aims to create a respectful space where people can speak without being sensationalised. Lived experience is presented as the contributor’s account; GVM does not make clinical, legal or investigative findings.
Featured conversations
More Than a Workshop: Building Health, Trust and Sisterhood
A deep-dive conversation with grassroots facilitators exploring maternal health, emotional wellbeing and cultural trust.
Prostate Cancer UK: Breaking Barriers to Diagnosis
Addressing higher risk factors among Black men and creating trusted conversations around symptom recognition.
Meet the host: Charles Ogunnowo Olorunfemi
Charles Ogunnowo Olorunfemi is the Founder/General Manager of Global Villaje Media and host of The Health, Wellness & Wellbeing Hour. He combines more than 20 years of health and social-care education experience with qualifications in Community Media and Creative Industries.
What health conversation does your community need?
If your organisation has an important health message, service, campaign or community issue that deserves a trusted and accessible conversation, GVM would welcome the opportunity to hear from you.