Global Health with Greg Martin
Writing a grant application for public health projects
In this video, Dr Greg Martin does a screen recording of himself writing a concept note for funding of a research projects. The video focusses on the "activities" (done on a gantt chart) and budget. If you're wanting to send a concept...
Global Health with Greg Martin
T-test, ANOVA and Chi Squared test made easy.
Statistics doesn't need to be difficult. Using the t-test, ANOVA or Chi Squared test as part of your statistical analysis is straight forward. You do need to understanding the underlying principles of hypothesis testing and p-values of...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Cohort and Case Control Studies
In this short video, Dr Greg Martin discusses Case Control and Cohort studies. He compares the strengths of each study design and describes when each of them would be a preferred research method.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Health Promotion
Health promotion is an arm of Public Health that is all about helping people make choices that translate into better health. The Ottawa Charter provides overall strategies that can be used to address the economic and environmental...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Professor Dave Explains
Routes of Viral Transmission
Now we know a bit more about how viruses interact with cells, whether those are bacterial cells, or animal cells, such as ours. But how do they gain access to our cells in the first place? How do viruses get inside the human body? Let's...
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...
Global Health with Greg Martin
How to get funding for your public health project.
In this video, Dr Greg Martin talks about how to get a grant (or funding) for Global Health or public health projects. If you're wanting to raise money for a project, for research or perhaps a scholarship to study further, this video...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Research Methods - Introduction
In this video, Dr Greg Martin provides an introduction to research methods, methedology and study design. Specifically he takes a look at qualitative and quantitative research methods including case control studies, cohort studies,...
Curated Video
Premature baby dies from measles in Alberta
New ReviewAlberta health officials say a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth. Speaking with CBC's The National, Infectious disease specialist Dr. Lynora Saxinger called the...
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Premature baby dies from measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death
New ReviewAlberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in the province in March. The province says a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother became sick, died shortly after birth. Dr....
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Stricter COVID-19 measures needed in Ontario to reduce Omicron spread, says expert
Epidemiologist Dr. Peter Jüni hopes to see the Ontario government introduce stronger COVID-19 restrictions to fight the spread of the Omicron variant. 'The situation we are in is challenging,' he says.
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Ottawa fails to use 50,000 volunteer contact tracers
Ottawa put out the call for volunteer contact tracers months ago but hasn't used any of the 50,000 people who signed up.