Top ten global health video resources

by Alanna Shaikh · 2009-01-07 20:25:00 UTC
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A bunch of video screens.
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If you’re someone who prefers your information visual, there are a lot of global health video resources out there. There are, I admit, a lot of slidedeck-with-commentary videos, and a fair share of speaker-at-a-podium, but there are also some really innovative uses of the video medium.

1. Ernest Madu: Bringing World Class Health care to the developing world Dr. Madu’s talk at the TED conference is an inspiring account of providing excellent health care, despite resource constraints and challenging circumstances. His optimism is infectious, and makes you see how the world could be better.

2. Cambodian Sex Workers fight HIV/AIDS through video. In Caught Between the Tiger and the Crocodile, Cambodian sex workers advocate against a law which that holds sex workers exclusively responsible for condom use, that they believe to be abusive. This powerful video demonstrates why. The sex workers, by the way, have their own blip.tv channel.

3. Millions Saved – Ruth Levine presents past successes in Global Health, and what we can learn:

4. James Nachtway: Extremely Drug Resistant Tuberculosis James Nachtway is a documentary photographer who has been moved to tell the world about the ravages of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis. This slideshow of his photographs is moving and excruciating.

5. Hans Rosling rocks the house with his slides on global health statistics. This is an absolutely amazing presentation.

6. The Charlie Rose Show did a global health panel, with some big name speakers: Ann Veneman, Jeffrey Sachs, Peter Hotez, Paul Nurse and Tonya Villafana. It’s a nice introduction to global health issues.

7. I didn’t pick this one for the soundtrack, but it helps. An overview of Global Health disparities, with a soundtrack from Blind Boys of Alabama.

8. Cheryl Scott, chief operating office of the Gates Foundation, talks about what can actually be done to improve global health.

9. Jim Yong Kim, a Harvard global health professor, talks about the challenges of improving access to HIV/AIDS medications, and about how the drugs alone are not enough. There’s no embed code for this one, so you’ll have to click on over to the Boston University website that hosts it.

10. “What are you going to do about it?” Harvard School of Public Health on HIV/AIDS. An inspirational story of a doctor who began doing volunteer HIV work. No embed code here either – I guess universities really like to contain their content.

Alanna Shaikh
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