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Global health is the health of populations in a global context; it has been defined as "the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide". Problems that transcend national borders or have a global political and economic impact are often emphasized. Thus, global health is about worldwide health improvement, reduction of disparities, and protection against global threats that disregard national borders. Global health is not to be confused with international health, which is defined as the branch of public health focusing on developing nations and foreign aid efforts by industrialized countries.
The predominant agency associated with global health (and international health) is the World Health Organization (WHO). Other important agencies impacting global health include UNICEF, World Food Programme, and the World Bank. The United Nations has also played a part with declaration of the Millennium Development Goals.
Paul Edward Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician who is best known for his humanitarian work providing suitable health care to rural and under-resourced areas in developing countries, beginning in Haiti. Co-founder of an international social justice and health organization, Partners In Health (PIH), he is known as "the man who would cure the world," as described in the book, Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder.
Farmer is currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, formerly the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an attending physician and Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
In May 2009 he was named chairman of Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, succeeding Jim Yong Kim, his longtime friend and collaborator. Kim was appointed as of 2012 President of the World Bank. On December 17, 2010, Harvard University's President, Drew Gilpin Faust, and the President and Fellows of Harvard College, named Farmer as a University Professor, the highest honor that the University can bestow on one of its faculty members.
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books.
Starting in 1987, Gates was included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009, and has been since 2014. Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from US$40 billion to more than US$82 billion. Between 2013 and 2014, his wealth increased by US$15 billion. Gates is currently the richest person in the world.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Gates has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by numerous court rulings. Later in his career Gates pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
Watch this 3 minute explainer video for a short introduction of what Global Health is all about. Our world is shrinking. With rapidly increasing movements of information, goods, services and people, the developments in one region of the world can have great consequences on the lives and health of people on the other side of the globe. Therefore, our health must be seen now in a global context and the issues of globalization, whether an opportunity or a threat to our health, are only accelerating. In Global Health we learn to think differently about problems and solutions as to be better equipped to bridge the gap between healthy and unhealthy, rich and poor, and other social inequities. We are all in this together and working to solve global health problems will help ensure that our wor...
How can training new doctors and nurses in resource-limited countries cure more than people? With all the investments made in global health over the last decade, why are we still struggling to deliver care? Do we in fact have the model right? Beyond infrastructure and medicines, we need people to build sustainable robust country-led health systems. We can change the status quo by creating a pipeline of highly trained health professionals who will train generations to come. Seed Global Health partners with the Peace Corps to pair US clinicians with public sector teaching institutions in resource poor countries to help nurture the future caregivers and educators in these countries of great need. About TEDx In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organ...
In this video, Dr Greg Martin talk about career opportunities in Global Health, including what organisations you can work for and what skills sets you'll need. Finding a job in Global Health isn't always easy but hopefully this video will give you a few useful pointers. Global health (and public health) is truly multidisciplinary and leans on epidemiology, health economics, health policy, statistics, ethics, demography.... the list goes on and on. This YouTube channel is here to provide you with some teaching and information on these topics. I've also posted some videos on how to find work in the global health space and how to raise money or get a grant for your projects. Please feel free to leave comments and questions - I'll respond to all of them (we'll, I'll try to at least). Feel f...
Sign up for more videos: http://eepurl.com/cbXmwj Survival. The Story of Global Health. A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) created by Igor Rudan, Mickey Chopra and Iain Campbell and developed by the University of Edinburgh.
Hans Rosling talks about what he think is the biggest threats to improved global health. http://www.sls.se/GlobalHealth/Programmet/
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Gavin Yamey on achieving a Grand Convergence in Global Health by 2035. More information via http://www.tedxberlin.de Gavin Yamey is a physician and medical journal editor with training in public health who leads the Evidence to Policy initiative (E2Pi) in the Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is also an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the UCSF School of Medicine. His policy research focuses on achieving large-scale change in global health, particularly related to infectious diseases of poverty and to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health. He teaches masters courses in global health policy at UCSF and at the London Schoo...
On November 4, 2015, Dr. Paul Farmer came to the College of General Studies for the 25th annual Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series to give a lecture on the current state of global health. The lecture lasted approximately one hour, followed by a 30 minute Q&A; session.
A special bonus video in which John Green and Microsoft founder Bill Gates talk about how Ethiopia has reduced its infant mortality dramatically in the past twenty years. ---- Join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com & http://effyeahnerdfighters.com John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com
Sean Kelly is a social entrepreneur and nutrition activist who has grown two industry-changing nutrition-focused startups into multimillion-dollar companies -- all before the age of 30. In 2008, Sean co-founded HUMAN ("Helping Unite Mankind And Nutrition") Healthy Vending, America's premier healthy foods distribution platform, and now serves as its CEO. Disrupting the junk-food-focused $42B vending industry and transforming the way people snack across the world, HUMAN Healthy Vending delivers on its vision to "make healthy food more convenient than junk food" via healthy vending machines, healthy micro markets, and other innovative automated retail technologies. One of Inc Magazine's 2013 "Fastest Growing Private Companies in America" (#168 on the INC 500), HUMAN delivers a wide variety of...
If you want to find a job in global health, this is for you. In this video, Dr Greg Martin looks at the organisations working in the global health space. Specifically, he talks about how to do a landscape analysis to identify an organisations that you might want to work for. This video is all about global health, public health and employment. For more information about the Notre Dame Master of Science in Global Health program click here: http://ntrda.me/2btUrXb To get an email alert when Dr Martin's book on the global health landscape is ready, click here: http://bit.ly/2baadUn To support this YouTube channel, click here: http://bit.ly/2bveM0B
Lecture by Professor Hester C. Klopper (CEO Non profit Organisation FUNDISA, Extraordinary professor of the University of the Western Cape and North West University Potchefstroom) as part of the 125 years Nurse Education celebrations at Oxford Brookes University
Antimicrobial Resistance's The Greatest Threats to Global Health by Life BuzzFeed | http://LifeBuzzFeed.com Thank you for watching. Please like, share, comment and subscribe our channel at http://bit.ly/Subscribe--Now for more daily videos. Antibiotic resistance is without doubt one of the largest threats to international well being at the moment. It could have an effect on anybody, of any age, in any nation. Antibiotic resistance happens naturally, however misuse of antibiotics in people and animals is accelerating the method. A rising variety of infections—akin to pneumonia, tuberculosis, and gonorrhoea—have gotten tougher to deal with because the antibiotics used to deal with them change into much less efficient. Antibiotic resistance results in longer hospital stays, larger medical p...
Get a free copy of the full audiobook and ebook: http://downloadapp.us/mabk/30/en/B00FAT7LX0/book Silent Violence engages the harsh reality of malaria and its effects on marginalized communities in Tanzania. Vinay R. Kamat presents an ethnographic analysis of the shifting global discourses and practices surrounding malaria control and their impact on the people of Tanzania, especially mothers of children sickened by malaria.malaria control, according to Kamat, has become increasingly medicalized, a trend that overemphasizes biomedical and pharmaceutical interventions while neglecting the social, political, and economic conditions he maintains are central to Africas malaria problem. Kamat offers recent findings on global health governance, neoliberal economic and health policies, and their ...
Global health security is the protection of the health of people and societies worldwide. With diseases a plane ride or border crossing away, the importance of global health security has never been clearer. Patterns of global travel and trade pose greater opportunities for infectious diseases to emerge and spread nearly anywhere within 24 hours. The Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which has infected more than 28,000 people across 10 countries and has caused more than 11,200 deaths, highlights the importance of ensuring that every country is prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks and emerging health threats. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at ...
Stanford Professor Lucy Shapiro is renowned for her contributions to the fields of developmental biology, molecular biology, and genetics. She discusses how antibiotics are becoming ineffective because bacteria have many ways of acquiring drug resistance. Development of new antibiotics cannot keep pace in this biological arms race. Confounding this problem, there is an increase in prevalent infectious diseases around the world due to overpopulation, globalization, and urbanization. We are rapidly reaching a critical stage in this global threat that has both economic and political implications. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures [6/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16422]
This 30 minute video is a collaborative effort highlighting the role of compassion in global health. Featuring global health leaders and educators from around the world to dialogue about the value of seeing the faces of people helped through public health. The video features former President Jimmy Carter, former US Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher, global health pioneer and founder of The Task Force, Dr. William Foege, and Task Force President and CEO Dr. Mark Rosenberg.
Dr. Paul Farmer, the founding director of Partners in Health, an organization that provides health care services and research focusing on diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor, discusses how social forces contribute to disease burden and shape access to timely diagnoses and effective treatment through an examination of impoverished nations like rural Haiti and Rwanda. Series: "Voices" [2/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Business] [Show ID: 13977]
http://www.weforum.org/ Renowned epidemiologists reflect on the state of global health security and the latest battle with Ebola. • Thomas R. Frieden, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA • Peter Piot, Director and Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom Moderated by • Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom; Global Agenda Council on the Demographic Dividend
On this weeks episode of TWiGH, we sit down with doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker- Prof. Hans Rosling, the man who makes data dance! Hans reflects on important demographic changes and the implications for global health.
Even the most worldly and well-read journalist can have his perspectives on the state of the world challenged by Hans Rosling. Data has rarely been more entertaining! - There are no longer two types of countries in the world, the old division into industrialized and developing countries has been replaced by 192 countries on a continuum of socio-economic development. Many Asian countries are now improving twice as fast as Europe ever did. A new gap may form between 5 billion people moving towards healthy lives with education, cell phones, electricity, washing machines and health service and more than 1 billion people stuck in the vicious circle of absolute poverty and disease. So far all progress towards health and wealth has been achieved at the price of increased CO2 emission that driv...
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 24 November 2011. The lecture is chaired by Dr Ron Zimmern, Chairman of the Foundation for Genomics and Population Health, and introduced by Dr Rebecca Lingwood, Director of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. Please note that the lecture proper begins at the 4:05 minute point in the video.