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Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health

You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local AEDs.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lucien_engelen_crowdsource_your_health

Raj Panjabi: Community health heroes

Raj Panjabi has a bold idea: to recruit and train an army of community health workers to bring medical care to the billion people around the world who lack access to it. See how technology is transforming things for health workers like Serena and Prince -- and how TED's just-launched initiative, the Audacious Project, is amplifying their impact....
https://www.ted.com/talks/raj_panjabi_community_health_heroes

Rebecca Onie: What if our health care system kept us healthy?

Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that -- and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated as a college sports team.
https://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_onie_what_if_our_health_care_system_kept_us_healthy

Laurel Braitman: The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers

Health care workers are under more stress than ever before. How can they protect their mental health while handling new and complex pressures? TED Fellow Laurel Braitman shows how writing and sharing personal stories helps physicians, nurses, medical students and other health professionals connect more meaningfully with themselves and others -- ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/laurel_braitman_the_mental_health_benefits_of_storytelling_for_health_care_workers

Ernest Madu: World-class health care

Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ernest_madu_world_class_health_care

Richard J. Wood: How do carbohydrates impact your health?

The things we eat and drink on a daily basis can impact our health in big ways. Too many carbohydrates, for instance, can lead to insulin resistance, which is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes. But what are carbs, exactly? And what do they do to our bodies? Richard J. Wood explains. [Directed by Qa'ed Mai, narrate...
https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_j_wood_how_do_carbohydrates_impact_your_health

Marvin Minsky: Health and the human mind

Listen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice.
https://www.ted.com/talks/marvin_minsky_health_and_the_human_mind

Raj Panjabi: Investing in health care workers strengthens communities

Physician and 2017 TED Prize recipient Raj Panjabi shares an update on Last Mile Health and the mission to build and scale a network of community health workers who provide essential medical services to their neighbors. Learn how the movement is creating fair, meaningful jobs -- and an equitable health care system that reaches everyone.
https://www.ted.com/talks/raj_panjabi_investing_in_health_care_workers_strengthens_communities

Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe

At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all.
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_dishman_take_health_care_off_the_mainframe

Raj Panjabi: No one should die because they live too far from a doctor

Illness is universal -- but access to care is not. Physician Raj Panjabi has a bold vision to bring health care to everyone, everywhere. With the 2017 TED Prize, Panjabi is building the Community Health Academy, a global platform that aims to modernize how community health workers learn vital skills, creating jobs along the way.
https://www.ted.com/talks/raj_panjabi_no_one_should_die_because_they_live_too_far_from_a_doctor

Paula Johnson: His and hers ... health care

Every cell in the human body has a sex, which means that men and women are different right down to the cellular level. Yet too often, research and medicine ignore this insight -- and the often startlingly different ways in which the two sexes respond to disease or treatment. As pioneering doctor Paula Johnson describes in this thought-provoking ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/paula_johnson_his_and_hers_health_care

Rob Wang: On masculinity and mental health

What makes suicide one of the more common causes of death among young American men? Entrepreneur Rob Wang draws on his own experience of suicidal depression to explain how misguided notions of masculinity affected his mental health and describes his approach to helping other men in similar situations.
https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_wang_on_masculinity_and_mental_health

Francisca Mutapi: Africans should lead on health care solutions for Africa

TED Fellow and global health researcher Francisca Mutapi discusses how COVID-19 responses borrowed from the West created significant obstacles for other public health programs in Africa -- and makes the case for the continent to chart out its own health care policies. "The solutions to Africa's health problems must be home-grown and must be led ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/francisca_mutapi_africans_should_lead_on_health_care_solutions_for_africa

Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.
https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_shh_sound_health_in_8_steps

Cheryl Holder: The link between climate change, health and poverty

For the poor and vulnerable, the health impacts of climate change are already here, says physician Cheryl Holder. Unseasonably hot temperatures, disease-carrying mosquitoes and climate gentrification threaten those with existing health conditions, while wealthier people move to higher ground. In an impassioned talk, Holder proposes impactful way...
https://www.ted.com/talks/cheryl_holder_the_link_between_climate_change_health_and_poverty

Matthew A. Wilson: The health benefits of clowning around

As a medical clown, TED Resident Matthew A. Wilson takes the old adage that laughter is the best medicine very seriously. In this heartwarming talk, he shares glimpses of how clowning around can help patients (and medical staff) navigate stressful situations -- with no side effects.
https://www.ted.com/talks/matthew_a_wilson_the_health_benefits_of_clowning_around

Raj Panjabi: What if we digitally empowered community health workers?

Raj Panjabi's life work has been to support and employ community health workers in the country of Liberia, where he grew up. In this talk, the TED Prize winner expands his vision. Over the next three years, his nonprofit Last Mile Health will partner with Living Goods to get smartphones to community health workers in six countries in Africa, bri...
https://www.ted.com/talks/raj_panjabi_what_if_we_digitally_empowered_community_health_workers

Alicia Chong Rodriguez: A smart bra for better heart health

Could an everyday clothing item help protect your health? In this quick talk, TED Fellow Alicia Chong Rodriguez introduces us to a smart bra designed to gather real-time data on biomarkers like heartbeat, breath and temperature. Learn how this life-saving gadget could help close the gender gap in cardiovascular research -- and, finally, usher wo...
https://www.ted.com/talks/alicia_chong_rodriguez_a_smart_bra_for_better_heart_health

Mary Bassett: Why your doctor should care about social justice

In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world's political and economic organizations, inequities that m...
https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_bassett_why_your_doctor_should_care_about_social_justice

Dragana Rogulja: How artificial light affects our health

In the last century, our sleep patterns have been heavily influenced by artificial light sources. (Think about your smartphone.) In this instructive talk, sleep researcher Dragana Rogulja outlines the damage this does to our health and suggests some ways to combat the problem.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dragana_rogulja_how_artificial_light_affects_our_health

Joel Selanikio: The big-data revolution in health care

Collecting global health data is an imperfect science: Workers tramp through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, write the answers on paper forms, then input the data -- and from this messy, gappy information, countries and NGOs need to make huge decisions. Data geek Joel Selanikio talks through the sea change in collecting health data...
https://www.ted.com/talks/joel_selanikio_the_big_data_revolution_in_health_care

Lara Durgavich: An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease

How does your genetic inheritance, culture and history influence your health? Biological anthropologist Lara Durgavich discusses the field of evolutionary medicine as a gateway to understanding the quirks of human biology -- including why a genetic mutation can sometimes have beneficial effects -- and emphasizes how unraveling your own evolution...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lara_durgavich_an_evolutionary_perspective_on_human_health_and_disease

David Asch: Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions

Why do we make poor decisions that we know are bad for our health? In this frank, funny talk, behavioral economist and health policy expert David Asch explains why our behavior is often irrational -- in highly predictable ways -- and shows how we can harness this irrationality to make better decisions and improve our health care system overall.
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_asch_why_it_s_so_hard_to_make_healthy_decisions

Priscilla Pemu: A personal health coach for those living with chronic diseases

There's no shortage of resources to help people change their health behaviors -- but far too often, these resources aren't accessible in underserved communities, says physician Priscilla Pemu. Enter "culturally congruent coaching," a program Pemu and her team developed to help patients with chronic diseases monitor their health with the assistan...
https://www.ted.com/talks/priscilla_pemu_a_personal_health_coach_for_those_living_with_chronic_diseases

Molly Winter: The taboo secret to better health

Our poop and pee have superpowers, but for the most part we don't harness them. Molly Winter faces down our squeamishness and asks us to see what goes down the toilet as a resource, one that can help fight climate change, spur innovation and even save us money.
https://www.ted.com/talks/molly_winter_the_taboo_secret_to_better_health

Matt Walker: The surprising health benefits of dreaming

When you fall asleep and start dreaming, you're actually doing very important work. According to sleep scientist Matt Walker, dreams act like a form of "overnight therapy." In fact, your dreams may even boost your ability to solve problems and process tough emotions that affect your waking life.
https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_walker_the_surprising_health_benefits_of_dreaming

Tracey McNamara: How monitoring animal health can predict human disease outbreaks

What does the health of a region's animal population say about the health of the local humans? More than you'd think, argues Tracey McNamara. As an expert in zoonotics -- the study of diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans -- McNamara explains how paying attention to animal disease patterns could have predicted events like t...
https://www.ted.com/talks/tracey_mcnamara_how_monitoring_animal_health_can_predict_human_disease_outbreaks

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face

Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).
https://www.ted.com/talks/noel_bairey_merz_the_single_biggest_health_threat_women_face

Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport

When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise as a medical tech specialist together to suggest a bold idea for reinventing health care -- by putting the patient at the center of a treatment team.
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_dishman_health_care_should_be_a_team_sport

Vikram Patel: Mental health for all by involving all

Nearly 450 million people are affected by mental illness worldwide. In wealthy nations, just half receive appropriate care, but in developing countries, close to 90 percent go untreated because psychiatrists are in such short supply. Vikram Patel outlines a highly promising approach -- training members of communities to give mental health interv...
https://www.ted.com/talks/vikram_patel_mental_health_for_all_by_involving_all
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