SciShow
How The Six Degrees Phenomenon Has Changed Science
You may have heard about the Six Degrees of Separation phenomenon, but it isn't just a fun celebrity game, it helps scientists understand the spread of epidemics, the structure of the internet, and even the neural networks in your brain
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Philip A. Chan: How close are we to eradicating HIV?
The world is getting closer to achieving one of the most important public health goals of our time: eradicating HIV. And to do this, we won't even have to cure the disease. We simply have to stop HIV from being transmitted until...
Crash Course
The Weaponization of Outbreaks - Crash Course Outbreak Science
A sad reality that we have to face when studying outbreak science is that sometimes groups of people use outbreaks intentionally to inflict harm on another group. We call this "weaponizing an outbreak", and it's the focus of this episode...
SciShow
6 Mysterious Ancient Outbreaks
Epidemiologists are always trying to get one step ahead of the next big outbreak - and often the best clues we have come from outbreaks of the past. Chapters BUBONIC PLAGUE VICTIMS 0:25 THE GREAT DYING 17th Century 0:47 WAMPANOAG LAND...
SciShow
The Untold Story of the First Vaccine
Vaccines save millions of lives each year, so we owe a lot to the people that pioneered that medical breakthrough. But the concept of a vaccine had already existed for a long time before it was “discovered,” and the real story is way...
TED Talks
TED: The rise of boring architecture -- and the case for radically human buildings | Thomas Heatherwick
Where did all the lumps and bumps on buildings go? When did city architecture become so ... dull? Here to talk about why cities need inspiring architecture, designer Thomas Heatherwick offers a path out of the doldrums of urban monotony...
3Blue1Brown
Exponential growth and epidemics
A primer on exponential and logistic growth, with epidemics as a central example
Crash Course
How Do We Investigate Outbreaks? Epidemiology Crash Course Outbreak Science
At the heart of outbreaks are people! People are the ones who get sick, transmit diseases, and change the way they live in response to outbreaks. In outbreak science, we can better understand the relationship between people and disease...
Crash Course
How Does the Healthcare System Work During Outbreaks? Crash Course Outbreak Science
Day to day, hospitals provide all kinds of services to help us get better and stay healthy, but during an outbreak, hospitals are the front line of the emergency. In this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we'll look at how...
Crash Course
How do Outbreaks End? Vaccines and Recovery: Crash Course Outbreak Science
Throughout this series, and in our real lives, we've seen the chaos and devastation that outbreaks can cause. But there's good news! Eventually, outbreaks come to an end. In this episode, we'll look at some of the important tools of...
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?...
Crash Course
How Do Outbreaks Start? Pathogens and Immunology - Crash Course Outbreak Science
You may not realize it, but your body is like a fortress, designed to defend you from tiny foreign invaders known as pathogens. This seemingly small world is actually super diverse, and sometimes super dangerous too. That’s why in this...
Crash Course
Crash Course Outbreak Science Preview
Welcome to Crash Course Outbreak Science! What do pathogens actually do to us that makes us sick? Why do societies respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases the way they do? How can we stop the next outbreak? These are the kinds of...
Crash Course
What Is Outbreak Science? Crash Course Outbreak Science
Infectious disease has affected the human species for as long as we’ve existed, but in that time we’ve come a long way in understanding what they are and how they spread. In this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we’ll introduce...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Greg Robinson - Teachers Make a Difference - Bert Hansen
Greg Robinson shares a pivotal moment from his first semester of graduate school when he was assigned to write a final paper by Professor Bert Hansen, who was teaching the history of medicine. Although unfamiliar with the subject,...
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...
Curated Video
The Global Challenge of Tuberculosis
This video highlights the resurgence of tuberculosis, particularly the emergence of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR TB) due to misdiagnosis and misuse of drugs. It emphasizes the global impact of TB, the challenges in treatment, and...
Primer
Epidemic, Endemic, and Eradication Simulations
Epidemic, Endemic, and Eradication Simulations
Curated Video
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy: Activist for Transgender Rights
Present at the Stonewall Uprising of 1959, pioneering transgender activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy lived through the HIV/AIDS epidemic to fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States and beyond.
Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: Trust
NOTABLE COLLABORATIONS: Professor Daston talks about how being confronted with two crises of global dimensions: the COVID-19 pandemic and global climate change, led to an international governance structure and collaboration of scientific...
Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: The Nature of Research
SCIENCE, ONGOING: Professor Barwich talks about how the pandemic has highlighted the need to teach people science as a process as well as the actual concepts of science to increase democratic participation and how the pandemic showed the...
Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: The Importance of Communication
VITAL ENGAGEMENT: Dr Holt talks about how the greatest lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that to battle a pandemic the public must feel that they have a buy-in to the process that gives rise to the decisions to wear masks, take...
Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: Moral Implications, Part 2
ALL TOO FAMILIAR: Professor Yamey talks about how the system of sharing vaccines which had been created with incentives to not hoard of vaccines did not work at all through a lack of genuine international health cooperation and his...
Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: Moral Implications, Part 1
A SOBERING ANALYSIS: Professor Frank talks about how the number of people touched by symptoms of mental illness dramatically increased during the pandemic, the increased awareness of the usefulness of mental health support for people...