Global Health with Greg Martin
Outbreaks - investigation and control
Outbreak investigation and control are an important part of public health and global health work. Epidemic and outbreaks of infectious disease require a robust response that includes investigating the epidemiology, laboratory (or...
Global Health with Greg Martin
R0 and vaccine coverage. How to use a COVID-19 vaccine to get to herd immunity and beat Coronavirus
R0 (the basic reproductive number) tells us more than just how many people will be infected in a totally susceptible population. It can be used to calculate the how much vaccine coverage is needed to get to herd immunity. As COVID-19...
Institute of Human Anatomy
Understanding COVID-19: A Healthcare Perspective
This video provides information on the current protocols and challenges faced by healthcare providers in managing the COVID-19 outbreak. It covers the transmission and symptoms of the virus, testing criteria, and the measures taken to...
Global Health with Greg Martin
How to create an epidemic curve
Epidemic curves are an important component of the public health and global health toolbox. During an outbreak of an infectious disease, public health professionals and epidemiologists create visual representations of the onset of illness...
Healthcare Triage
Why Won't the US Study Gun Deaths?
Guns are in the news A LOT these days. The RAND Corporation recently unveiled a huge study on guns. We're going to talk about the minuscule amounts that are spent on studying guns, and look at the evidence around regulating guns and the...
Mediacorp
From the Plague to COVID-19: An Overview of Global Pandemics
Host Joshua gives a brief overview of the Black Death and influenza pandemics. He focuses on the toll they each took on the population and the ways these pandemics changed the structure of society from hospitals to language. Pandemic...
Global Health with Greg Martin
What is public health
In this video, Dr Greg Martin takes a look at the question, "what is public heath?" and also considers what it is that public health professionals do including research and surveillance and actions to prevent disease and improve access...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Sensitivity and specificity - explained in 3 minutes
Dr Greg Martin talks about the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic tools used in global health programs. This forms part of the epidemiology series.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Know how to interpret an epidemic curve
Epidemic curves are a visual representation of the onset of cases in an outbreak. In this video Dr Greg Martin explains how to interpret and epidemic curve for point source outbreaks, common source outbreaks and propagated outbreaks....
Global Health with Greg Martin
Randomized Control Trials and Confounding
In this video, Dr Greg Martin describes how randomized control trials work and how they deal with confounding variables. This is episode three in a series of videos looking at epidemiology, research methods and study design in the...
Healthcare Triage
Traffic is Terrible and Terrible for You
Commuting is one of the least pleasant things we do. But it’s not just an annoying time waster — there’s a case that it’s a public health issue.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Relative risk and risk ratios
Public Health professionals and epidemiologists often do risk calculations. These might include risk ratios, absolute risk, relative risk and risk differences. In this video, Dr Greg Martin teaches how to understand and calculate risk....
Global Health with Greg Martin
Statistics made easy ! ! ! Learn about the t-test, the chi square test, the p value and more
Learning statistics doesn’t need to be difficult. This introduction to stats will give you an understanding of how to apply statistical tests to different types of data. You’ll learn about numeric and categorical data and gain an...
Global Health with Greg Martin
The Next Pandemic - How bad might things get? How should we prepare?
Pandemic preparedness is a hot topic. Why might the next pandemic be much worse that the COVID-19 pandemic? To answer that question, we need to consider the epidemiological factors like disease transmission, immunological response and...
Curated Video
Pandemic Lockdown of 1918
The Spanish Flu was one of the deadliest pandemics the world has ever seen – so how was one sleepy Colorado town able to escape unscathed?
Global Health with Greg Martin
Hypothesis Testing
Hypothesis testing is the cornerstone of statistical analysis and the scientific method. If you are doing research or analyzing data, then you might be wanting to use statistics to draw your conclusions. Using tests like the t-test,...
Global Health with Greg Martin
How to write a scientific paper
Do you want to write and publish an academic or scientific paper? To get a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal is not difficult. This video will provide you with insights into what to include in each section of the paper and talk...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Conflict and Health - Health Care in Danger (and interview with the ICRC)
This video talks about the dangers that both patients and professionals face when it comes to accessing and delivering healthcare in conflict zones. We are joined by Dr. Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin of the ICRC's "Health Care in Danger" project...
Global Health with Greg Martin
mHealth - what is it
This first video discusses the World Health Organization’s 6 initiatives for mHealth, including use in public health emergencies, such as the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria, and medication reminders, such as SIMpill. It also reviews the Gates...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Epidemiology - the backbone of public health
Epidemiology underpins everything we do in public health and global health. Epidemiology is more than just research methods and qualitative and quantitative study design. It's about understanding the distribution of states of health and...
Global Health with Greg Martin
The Social Determinants of Health. A Public Health framework.
The social determinants of health represent aspects of people’s social identity, their social environment and their social position that can health and public health. It’s a broad topic and includes issues like justice, inequality,...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Health Systems (pt 1) - an interview with Dr. Jonathan D. Quick
In this episode we interview Dr. Jonathan D. Quick, CEO of Management Sciences for Health and talk about Health Systems.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Health Systems
The public health and global health community talk about strengthening health systems. In this video, Dr Greg Martin provides a brief overview of what health systems are and how it is that the building blocks of health systems fit together.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Universal Health Coverage explained
Universal Health Coverage is about providing healthcare to people without pushing people into poverty. It's an exciting public health and global health tool. Countries that implement universal health coverage provide better healthcare at...