Introduction to Biomedical Engineering - Concepts and Applications
Explore biomedical engineering's impact on daily life, history, and disease control. Learn about current applications, future potential, and societal implications of this innovative field.
Social Dilemma of Disease Control
Explore disease control's social dilemma through integrating top-down and bottom-up perspectives, examining contagions, immunity, social distancing, and vaccination behaviors.
HHS Secretaries: Looking Ahead, Looking Back - Challenges and Insights from Former Health and Human Services Leaders
Former HHS Secretaries discuss achievements, challenges, and advice for successors. Insights on managing healthcare, public health crises, and policy decisions at the helm of a $1.8 trillion federal agency.
Contact Tracing Lessons from Global Leaders for the US - Aspen Institute Talk
Explore global lessons on contact tracing for pandemic control, featuring insights from Partners In Health on implementing effective strategies in Massachusetts and other regions.
From Surges to Strategy: Putting a National COVID-19 Testing Plan in Place
Explore a comprehensive national COVID-19 testing strategy, aiming for 30 million weekly tests by October to safely reopen communities and economies amid the pandemic surge.
The Apocalypse and How to Avoid It - Panel Discussion
Panel discussion exploring survival strategies, essential skills, and technological solutions for potential apocalyptic scenarios. Experts share insights on disaster preparedness, disease control, shelter design, and space debris management.
The Maths of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop - With Adam Kucharski
Explore mathematical models for disease spread, misinformation, and internet memes. Learn how outbreaks occur, why some are predictable, and strategies for controlling epidemics and viral content.
Climatological, Meteorological and Environmental Factors in COVID-19 Pandemic - Day 3 Part 1
Experts discuss environmental and meteorological factors in COVID-19 forecasting, addressing challenges in communicating predictions and informing decision-makers amidst uncertainty.
Epidemics in orbit: How space debris is going viral | Rachel Sholder | TEDxJHU
Rachel reframes the growing crisis of space debris through an unexpected lens: epidemiology. Drawing parallels between orbital collisions and the spread of infectious disease, she introduces space epidemiology, a framework that models debris cascades using public health tools like SIR models. By sho
AI, medical jargon, and the healthcare maze | Karen Komondor | TEDxOneonta
Nine out of ten U.S. adults struggle to understand health information, often leaving medical visits more confused than when they arrived. In this talk, Karen Komondor shares her simple 5-S.T.E.P. Framework that helps providers and patients build clarity, connection, and trust—transforming healthcare