TEDxBountiful - Michelle McCullough - The Contagious Theory
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Michelle tackles the contagious theory.. stuff spreads.
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- -: TEDxBountiful - Michelle McCullough - The Contagious Theory
January 27, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Michelle tackles the contagious theory.. stuff spreads.
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- -: TEDxBountiful - Michelle McCullough - Stuff Spreads
January 27, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Michelle tackles the contagious theory.. stuff spreads.
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- -: TEDxLansing-Theresa Bernardo-Save Yourself!
June 8, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Theresa recently returned to MSU after working with the Americas Regional Office of the World Health Organization where she had first-hand exposure to the usefulness of social media in responding to the two most serious emergencies in the history of the organization. Tracing the evolution of the ...
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- -: Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics
September 16, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com After mapping humans' intricate social networks, Nicholas Christakis and colleague James Fowler began investigating how this information could better our lives. Now, he reveals his hot-off-the-press findings: These networks can be used to detect epidemics earlier than ever, fro...
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- -: Preparing for Swine Flu
September 4, 2009 (over 14 years ago)According to the World Health Organization, The H1N1 Virus is estimated to affect 2 billion people (1/3 of the worlds population) over the next two years. Former head of the CDC, Jeff Koplan discusses the difficulties in preparing for this. http://bigthink.com/H1N1
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- -: The Barriers to a Global H1N1 Vaccine
September 4, 2009 (over 14 years ago)As plans for an H1N1 vaccine are announced, Barry Bloom, Professor of Public Health at Harvard, explains the elements of corporate and international policy that will prevent these vaccines from reaching many of the populations that will need them most: http://bigthink.com/jeffkoplan/protecting-...
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- -: Why Older People Have Greater Immunity to Swine Flu
September 4, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Peter Palese, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Mt. Sinai, explains the current Viruss direct derivation from that which arose in 1918, the natural herd immunity that all humans share against it, and the reasons why the elderly stand at a lesser r...
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- -: The Origins of Swine Flu
September 4, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Michael Worobey, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, uncovers the origins of the current H1N1 virus and how it rested latent within pigs for up to ten years prior to 2009, and how it transfers between species. http://bigthink.com/michaelworobey/emergence-of-the-2009-...
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- -: Preventing Pandemics Through Healthcare Reform
September 4, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Jeffrey Koplan, former head of the CDC and Vice President for Global Health at Emory University, discusses the vital importance of a healthcare reform that provides some level of universal coverage to people and encourages them to come in when theyre sick at early stages in preventing future pand...
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- -: How Political Myths Spread - Farhad Manjoo
June 2, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/27/Farhad_Manjoo-Learning_To_Live_in_a_Post-Fact_Society Salon.com technology columnist Farhad Manjoo examines the phenomenon of "selective exposure" - our predisposition to seek out ideas that re-enforce existing beliefs - in today's media, using the 2...
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