TED Talks
TED: What are the most important moral problems of our time? | Will MacAskill
Of all the problems facing humanity, which should we focus on solving first? In a compelling talk about how to make the world better, moral philosopher Will MacAskill provides a framework for answering this question based on the...
TED Talks
TED: The big-data revolution in health care | Joel Selanikio
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Collecting global health data is an imperfect science: Workers tramp through villages to knock on doors and ask...
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...
Great Big Story
The Disease Detectives Stop Outbreaks at Their Source
Join the elite Epidemic Intelligence Service as they combat outbreaks and prevent the spread of deadly diseases. Follow their expeditions and life-saving efforts.
PBS
Economic Lessons from Past Pandemics
It's a weird time to be alive. A pandemic is sweeping the world and life as we know it has gone through a seismic shift in a matter of weeks. But this isn't the first time humans have encountered an epidemic. Today, Danielle (from the...
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?
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.
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
Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) strategy for 2023-2025. Innovative public health at its best!
The Medicines Patent Pool is one of the most interesting and innovative global health organisations. They have a huge impact on access to medicines in low-and-middle income countries. In this video we look at their new strategy for...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Case control and cohort studies
Case control and cohort studies are examples of epidemiological studies used in public health to understand the relationship between exposures and outcomes. Epidemiology is about the distribution of disease and the causes of disease and...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Avian Influenza - what you need to know about H5N1 and the risk of pandemic bird flu
Can humans catch avian influenza? Is avian flu the same thing is a bird flu? What is H5N1? What are the symptoms of bird flu? How do we prevent or prepare for a bird flu pandemic? These are important questions and this video will provide...