Bozeman Science
Vaccines and Herd Immunity
In this video Paul Andersen explains how immune individuals in a population give the entire group a herd immunity. Concepts of immunity, vaccines, basic reproduction number, and herd immunity threshold are discussed.
Crash Course
How Do We Investigate Outbreaks? Epidemiology Crash Course Outbreak Science
At the heart of outbreaks are people! People are the ones who get sick, transmit diseases, and change the way they live in response to outbreaks. In outbreak science, we can better understand the relationship between people and disease...
Crash Course
How Does the Healthcare System Work During Outbreaks? Crash Course Outbreak Science
Day to day, hospitals provide all kinds of services to help us get better and stay healthy, but during an outbreak, hospitals are the front line of the emergency. In this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we'll look at how...
Crash Course
Why Do We Have Fewer Outbreaks? Epidemiological Transition - Crash Course Outbreak Science
We take it for granted that society gets better at tackling infectious disease over time, but when you really think about it the progress we’ve made in the last century is pretty amazing. How does that much progress happen so quickly?...
Crash Course
How Do Outbreaks Start? Pathogens and Immunology - Crash Course Outbreak Science
You may not realize it, but your body is like a fortress, designed to defend you from tiny foreign invaders known as pathogens. This seemingly small world is actually super diverse, and sometimes super dangerous too. That’s why in this...
Crash Course
Crash Course Outbreak Science Preview
Welcome to Crash Course Outbreak Science! What do pathogens actually do to us that makes us sick? Why do societies respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases the way they do? How can we stop the next outbreak? These are the kinds of...
Crash Course
What Is Outbreak Science? Crash Course Outbreak Science
Infectious disease has affected the human species for as long as we’ve existed, but in that time we’ve come a long way in understanding what they are and how they spread. In this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we’ll introduce...
Curated Video
Epidemiology
The study of health and disease at the level of populations. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary Films reinforce...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Infectious disease epidemiology and transmission dynamics (how infections spread)
If you're interested in public health then infectious disease epidemiology and transmission dynamics is something that you have to get your head around. This video is all about how communicable diseases (those caused by viruses,...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Health equity and health equality
If you're a public health or global health practitioner or studying an MPH then you'll want to incorporate the idea of health equity into your thinking. Inequality is the idea of an unequal distribution of something. Inequity however is...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Market failure in healthcare
When it comes to health expenditure, the US is an absolute outlier, outspending other countries by a substantial margin. So health outcomes in the US must be spectacular. Well, no, US ranks last out of all industrialized countries when...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Meningitis and the public health actions that can be taken to prevent it.
Meningitis is a potentially severe illness that involves inflammation of the protective membranes, known as meninges, covering the brain and spinal cord. This condition can be caused by a variety of organisms, including bacteria,...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Alcoholism. How to address alcohol addiction using a public health approach.
Alcohol abuse and misuse can have a detrimental effect on a persons physical, social and mental wellbeing. Alcoholism should be thought of as a public health issue. Alcoholism, often referred to as alcohol use disorder, represents a...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Health Technology Assessment
Health Technology Assessments (HTAs) are pivotal in contemporary public health, offering a structured strategy to scrutinize the clinical efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and broader societal implications of health technologies. These may...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Environmental Health
Welcome to a snapshot of the relationship between environmental health and public health. As our global community faces unprecedented challenges due to climate change, it's more important than ever to recognize how the environment...
Global Health with Greg Martin
The Ebola Virus Epidemic - where to from here
Greg Martin takes a look at the factors that could lead to the Ebola Virus Epidemic spreading out of Africa and into other parts of the world like the USA and Europe. Dr Martin highlights the fact that front line medical workers might be...
JJ Medicine
Overview of Ebola
Overview of Ebola: Hemorrhagic fever, causes, pathophysiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment. Ebola is a disease caused by infection with the ebolavirus, which causes a significant hemorrhagic fever. In this lesson, we discuss some of...
PBS
How We Discovered Germs
Humanity didn't always know about the invisible viruses, bacteria, and microbes that can cause disease. But that doesn't mean we didn't come up with some truly bizarre ideas. From the four humors and miasma theory to bloodletting and...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Incidence and Prevalence
Incidence and prevalence use in Public Health as a measure of the burden of disease in community or country. We also sometimes refer to point prevalence and period prevalence. These are basic concepts in epidemiology that help plan...
Global Health with Greg Martin
One Health - thinking about human health, animal health and environmental health as one system
One health is about developing strategies that consider the interrelations between human health, the environment and animal health. Zoonotic outbreaks, where infectious diseases spread from animals to humans, is an example of the need to...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Public Health Surveillance
Public health surveillance is about more than just infectious disease epidemiology. It can include health surveillance on non-communicable disease, health service usage etc. Importantly it is about how health data is collected and...
Global Health with Greg Martin
What to expect from a Master of Public Health degree. Why do an MPH?
I f you are about to start or thinking of doing a Master of Public Health degree, then this video will tell you what you should expect from the program. An MPH is an excellent stepping stone into a public health or global health career....
Global Health with Greg Martin
Science Communication
We live in a world with vaccine denial and immunization enthusiasts. Some people believe in climate change and others don't. At the end of the day, we need to trust science because its the best tool that we have to better understand the...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Risk, Rate and Odds
If you're working in public health, epidemiology or any of the medical disciplines, then you've probably come across the terms risk, rate and odds. These ideas seem similar but have important differences.