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...
Wonderscape
Battling Viruses: The Body's Defense and Vaccine Power
Delve into the body's immune response against viral infections and the vital role of vaccines in disease prevention. Understand how symptoms like fever and coughing signal the immune system's battle against viruses, and explore the...
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...
Healthcare Triage
Public Health Solutions to Climate Change Problems
Much of the conversation around climate change centers on things like lowering carbon emissions, which is obviously critical, but we think the public health response to climate change should be a larger part of the conversation. Whatever...
Healthcare Triage
Ways We Can Mitigate Climate Change
We’ve spent a bunch of time this year examining the many, many health effects of climate change. And while we are no experts on climate change and what the best solutions are to address it, we are clearly interested in addressing it for...
Healthcare Triage
A Vaccine for Malaria!
Malaria kills a lot of people every year, and many of those people are young children. Developing a vaccine against this deadly disease has been a long and difficult journey, but there’s been a breakthrough! While we are still working...
Let's Tute
Meaning and Importance of Taxes
In this session you will learn about Taxes. Know more about the taxes where the taxes used? Need of Taxes, Why taxes are important? How impactful the taxes are?
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...
PBS
What's up with all this Vaping?
E-Cigarettes are everywhere. Vaping has become so ubiquitous that "vape" was Oxford Dictionaries word of the year in 2014. Today, Danielle looks at how and why vaping took off. She examines the early 20th century prototypes for electric...
Curated Video
Can AI Improve Air Quality?
Air pollution is an increasingly pressing public health issue, but current monitoring methods fall short. Can AI help?
Neuro Transmissions
Should Police Respond To Mental Health Calls?
If you were in a mental health crisis and called for emergency services, who would you want coming to your aid? Right now in the US, local police have shouldered the burden of this kind of crisis response. But...should they? If we agree...
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.
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
How to survive your MPH
If you're about to or have started a Master of Public Health degree or MSc Public Health, then this video will talk you through what you need to do to get the most out of the experience. Public Health includes health promotion, health...
Global Health with Greg Martin
E.coli - what you need to know about VTEC
E.coli is a bacteria that can cause disease in humans. Verocytotoxin producing e.coli, or VTEC can cause bloody diarrhea and sometimes serious kidney disease in children. This video addressed the public health actions needed to control...
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...