TED Talks
Bjorn Lomborg: Global priorities bigger than climate change
Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.
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?...
Curated Video
GCSE Biology - Health and Disease #33
In this video we look at how to describe the terms health and disease, the difference between communicable and non-communicable disease, and how diseases can interact.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Access to Medicines (part IV). How to get a job!
In this video the panel continue the discussion on Access to Medicines and focus on "who is doing what" (and where a person might be able to find work in this space).
Global Health with Greg Martin
Refugee and IDP Health
This episodes delves further into healthcare in times of conflict, focusing on access to healthcare and challenges faced by refugees and internally displaced people. Additionally, we address the issues that host-countries face in...
Curated Video
Understanding Health Issues: Causes, Interactions, and Data Insights
This is a video that discusses different factors that can affect an individual's health, including disease, diet, stress, life situations, and more. The video explains that different types of diseases may interact and cause additional...
Weird History
The Life of Typhoid Mary
The story of the real Typhoid Mary - In the early 1900s, germ theory was a relatively new concept, and many – including doctors – were unaware of how diseases spread. At the time, bacterial diseases like typhoid and dysentery could still...
Curated Video
Understanding Factors that Affect Health: Diseases, Diet, Stress, and Life Situations
This video provides an overview of the factors that can affect a person's health, including diseases, diet, stress, and life situations. It discusses the different types of diseases, such as communicable and non-communicable, and the...
Curated Video
Understanding the Chain of Infection: How Germs Spread and Infect
In this video, the concept of the chain of infection is explained, highlighting how germs spread from various sources to infect new hosts. It explores the different modes of transmission, including person-to-person contact, indirect...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Access to Medicines (Part 2) R&D gaps
This video the panel focus on Access to Medicines and will look specifically at gaps in R&D for medicines needed to improve access to medicines in developing countries.
Curated Video
Antibiotics and Painkillers: What You Need to Know
This video provides a basic understanding of antibiotics and painkillers, explaining how they work, what they are used for, and their limitations. The video discusses the difference between bacterial and viral diseases and emphasizes the...
Global Health with Greg Martin
TWiGH live from the World Health Assembly!
Live from Geneva, Switzerland at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Assembly (WHA) the TWiGH Team discusses the pressing Global Health Agenda. Joining the panel are students from the University of South California (USC)...
Let's Tute
Understanding the Link Between Disease and Human Health
The video discusses the link between disease and human health, defining and classifying diseases into categories based on onset, transmission, and duration. It also highlights the importance of adopting a healthy lifestyle to prevent...
Makematic
UN Global Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing (Ages 11 - 17)
Short animation explaining UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing for teenage students
Curated Video
The Common Cold: Causes, Symptoms, and Remedies
This video provides an informative overview of the common cold, its symptoms, causes, and prevention. It highlights the fact that the common cold is a viral infection that affects the upper respiratory tract and is really common in...
Curated Video
Understanding Communicable Diseases: Transmission, Symptoms, and Prevention
In this video, the speaker discusses communicable diseases. The video provides examples of various communicable diseases caused by different types of pathogens, such as measles caused by a virus, salmonella caused by bacteria, and...
msvgo
Various types diseases
It describes communicable and non-communicable; acute and chronic; congenital and acquired; and endemic, epidemic and pandemic diseases.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Non-Communicable Diseases
On this episode, we are joined by Jordan Jarvis of the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YP-CDN) to discuss the growing burden of Non-Communicable Disease and the latest WHO status report on the issue.
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.
Bloomberg
Siemens Healthineers CEO Says China Decoupling Completed
Siemens Healthineers CEO Bernd Montag says the firm has ring-fenced its Chinese supply chain from other regions, a move intended to shield the company's operations from escalating trade and geopolitical tensions. Speaking exclusively to...
Curated Video
Intl Health Forum says spike in diseases from urbanisation and pollution
Beijing - 29 October 2007
1. Wide of Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu, World Health Organisation Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan and others sitting at opening ceremony of Global Forum for Health Research
2. Chinese Health Minister...
Curated Video
Johannesburg's grannies enter the ring for boxfit
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Whether it's welter weight, or heavy weight, boxing is a high intensity sport not usually associated with pensioners, until now.
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Curated Video
Johannesburg's grannies enter the ring for boxfit
LEAD IN:
Whether it's welter weight, or heavy weight, boxing is a high intensity sport not usually associated with pensioners, until now.
A group of Johannesburg grandmothers are showing age is no obstacle to...
Bloomberg
RBA Is Not in Any Rush to Raise Rates, AMP Capital Says
Diana Mousina, senior economist at AMP Capital Investors, discusses Reserve Bank of Australia's policy and the outlook for the economy. The RBA bowed to market pressure Tuesday, abandoning a bond-yield target and signaling it’s open to...