A group of women use everyday items to tell of the sacrifices and difficult choices they face. Amina is a young woman living in temporary housing after she was illegally evicted from her home by a private landlord. Sarah lost her job...

Jenny Finn has designed structures that foster vitality in people, communities, and organizations for nearly 30 years. She holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability Education and co-founded Springhouse, a school inspired by a vision to live in a...

The Nuclear Disaster of Chernobyl analyzes the nuclear disaster of Ukraine and Chernobyl and the effects on health and society.

The Keystone Project explores the Keystone Project and its effects on environment.

Henrietta Lacks seeks treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins, where tissue samples are collected without her knowledge or consent. Cells from her sample prove to be remarkably durable and prolific, becoming the first human cell...

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.

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...

Smokers’ Lungs will show students what the lungs of a smoker look like and the negative impacts that smoking has on a person.

This week on Nature League, Brit answer your questions about life on Earth!

Donating blood can lead to weight loss, but this loss is not significant. As covered in this video, the average donation is 1 pint of blood, which weighs about 1 pound; so right off the bat, you’re walking out of the donation center 1...

The heart is practically immune to getting cancer. 2 in 100,000 of those who have cancer are those with a primary cancer of the heart. That is an astonishing low number. So, what is so special about the heart that it rarely, if ever,...

In which John discusses global human health, mental illness, and how metrics like Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) can help us understand how severely mental illness affects human health around the world.

Weird History Food is gonna get your palate banned. Food is one of those things that immediately sets one country apart from another, and edible items or practices taken for granted in one country may in fact be banned somewhere else....

This video explores five fun facts about radioactivity.

This video explores the pros and cons of eating different types of meat, including red meat, white meat, seafood, and processed meat. It discusses the health risks associated with consuming too much red and processed meat, while...

Season 1, Tasmanian Devil part 5. At dusk, Brandon and Kayne meet Andrew for a Tasmanian devil stakeout. Andrew put out food to lure the animals and gives tips about Tasmanian devil behaviour while they wait for the creatures to arrive....

This video highlights the crucial importance of getting enough sleep for our overall health and well-being. It discusses the harmful effects of sleep deprivation on our physical and mental health, as well as the societal factors...

Cost-sharing is the practice of making individuals responsible for part of their health insurance costs beyond the monthly premiums they pay for health insurance - think things like deductibles and copayments. The practice is meant to...

President Trumpês proposed budget will cut $7 billion in NIH funding - over 20% of the total NIH budget. You might be wondering, where does NIH money go? This week, we heard from scientists across the country about their NIH funded...

The idea behind cost-sharing in healthcare costs goes something like this: If the patient is responsible for some part of the cost of their care, they'll be more judicious in their choices of treatment, and healthcare spending will...

France conducted 193 nuclear tests not far from Tahiti, exposing the local population and French soldiers to high levels of radiation.

Many, many studies conclude that investing in public health is more effective than continually increasing spending on expensive treatments. So why doesn't the US spend more on public health?

Title X is a federally funded Family Planning Program that has been around since 1970 as part of the Public Health Service Act. Following new restrictions on healthcare providers in clinics receiving Title X funding, Planned Parenthood...

NSF Director France A. Córdova outlines how President Obama's fiscal year (FY) 2017 request for NSF supports research into critical national issues, including clean energy technologies, food sustainability, disaster response and...