There's a question that's been troubling journalist Sonia Shah since she was a child: What is malaria, and why is it killing so many people? This morning during the session "Listening to Nature," journalist Shah looks at the complexities making it so hard for humanity to rid itself of this killer disease, which kills hundreds of thousands of...

Hundreds of thousands of people die from malaria every year. So why is it still around? In today's talk, journalist Sonia Shah takes a look at the history of malaria and outlines some of the major challenges facing the end of one of the world's deadliest diseases. It's not simply that we need to improve our science, says Shah; we also face e...

A smorgasbord of inspired TED Talks to help you get through your funk, and answer some deeper questions along the way.

These are some of the TED Talks that had you looking at the world differently by the time the credits rolled (in no specific order).

What a year! Here are the talks you enjoyed the most from 2015.

About this event: TEDxChange -- an initiative devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. TEDxTartuChange is meaningful discussions on topics such as vaccines, polio, malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal and newborn child health, and agricultural development.

A round-up of what's interesting on the interwebs this week: Gary Shteyngart tries Google Glass. Hilarity ensues. [The New Yorker] To everyone's surprise, a malaria vaccine has been 100 percent effective in clinical trials. [Nature] For writers, adopting a second language is more than gaining a new skill set. It's a rebirth. [The Stone Blog, ...

It's the age of Big Data. But what, exactly, do we do with all this information? These talks explore practical, ethical -- and spectacularly visual -- ways to understand near-infinite data.

Bono, the lead singer of U2, uses his celebrity to fight for social justice worldwide: to end hunger, poverty and disease, especially in Africa. His nonprofit ONE raises awareness via media, policy and calls to action.

Will MacAskill is a cofounder of the effective altruism movement, a philosophy that tries to answer the question: How can we do as much good as possible?

David Heymann is a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He led the World Health Organization's global response to the SARS epidemic in 2003.

The TED community is brimming with new projects and updates. Below, a few highlights. Malaria vaccine begins wide-scale testing in Malawi. RTS,S -- the only malaria vaccine to successfully pass clinical trials -- will be made available to 360,000 children in Kenya, Malawi and Ghana in the first round of implementation testing. Immunologis...

The world’s most dangerous animal isn’t the lion, tiger or bear. It’s actually the mosquito. “Mosquitos have killed more humans than any other creature in human history,” says Haydn Parry in today’s talk. “The mosquito has killed more humans than wars and plague.” Every year, about a million and a half people succumb to malaria -- even with ...

About this event: TEDxKiraTown was organized to bring together people to share a TED-like experience in the spirit of “ideas worth spreading. Our Objective was to share ideas that would empower people and elevate their lives. we believe that was met and we look forward to organizing the next event. We shall be sharing the event videos and photos very soon Spec...

To power his family's home, young William Kamkwamba built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap -- starting him on a journey detailed in the book and film "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind."

Something huge is coming, and it sounds like an ad for a bag of potato chips. CRISPR, which makes gene editing so cheap and easy a talented high schooler could do it, is the latest technology that promises to radically change the world. But what exactly can it do, and what are the potential dangers? Journalist Jennifer Kahn is here to exp...

Malaria kills about 2,000 people every day. The mosquito-borne disease has ravaged the equatorial areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, where a combination of poverty and climate make a dangerous breeding ground for disease. There is currently no vaccine. But Nathan Myhrvold has a solution. In his talk and demonst...

As a physician and epidemiologist, Gary Slutkin didn't think he had much to contribute to the conversation about gun violence in America. But then he began to realize something -- that outbreaks of violence follow the same patterns as outbreaks of tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS, all of which he'd worked on reversing during a decade in Somali...

About this event: The event will gather speakers from Barcelona and around the world around the topics of global heath and rural development. We will tackle subjects as malaria investigation, mother to child HIV prevention, cash transfers in African humanitarian crisis, crowdfunding in health sectors, maternal health... We will gather different collectives and...

TEDxChange is a yearly event hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that addresses themes of health and development. Twelve TEDx events from around the world work together to curate their own TEDxChange sessions at their events. The topics are vast - ranging from vaccines, polio, malaria, HIV/AIDS to maternal/newborn child health, educa...

Bioengineering professor Manu Prakash brought the world a 50-cent microscope. Now he's created more cheap public health tools, including a paper centrifuge and a mosquito identifier. And he’s just getting started. While many of us may look at a sheet of paper and see something to write on, Stanford University bioengineering professor Manu Praka...

About this event: TEDxChange is an event created out of a partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the TEDx program. It is an initiative devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. The TEDxChange team works with TEDx organizers around the world to help facilitate meaningful discussions on topics including...

About this event: Cette conférence sera doublée en langue française. TEDxChange is a partnership between TEDx and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that is devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. The TEDxChange team works with TEDx organizers around the world to help facilitate meaningful discussions within their ...

Horses, parrots and mosquitos: oh my! TED2013 will commence in just nine days, and the TED Blog is gearing up for our live, minute-by-minute, coverage. One thing we can’t wait to see: which speaker will bring an animal onstage with them? (Our money is on ornithologist Kees Moeliker.) Sometimes, speakers arrive with a live animal, other times ...

About this event: We showed selected videos from our TEDxTraverseCity 2015 event. Each talk touches on the concept, "Now What?" Selected videos include the following, and links are available at our home page: Dr. Drew Ramsey: The Brain Intervention at the End of Our Forks Rebecca Lessard: Bless and Release Angie McArthur: Great Minds Don't Think Alike But Can Lea...

This session asks us to pay closer attention to what nature has to tell us -- both about itself and about the world around us. We'll investigate a variety of sources -- from the soundscapes of ecosystems to the neurons of cockroaches to the extraordinary sex lives of animals. Here are the speakers who appeared in this session of TEDGlobal 201...

About this event: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a strategic partner of the TEDx program, and together we teamed up for a very special project called TEDxChange -- an initiative devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. The TEDxChange team works with TEDx organizers around the world to help facilitate meaningful d...

About this event: We're looking at a new framing for global health. Not malaria and surviving childbirth, but what if.... what IF.... we had 7BN generally healthy whole people pulling for the advancement of the species and the planet? What could we accomplish? Some topics: Word matters: The Semantic Shifts needed for a Healthy Planet Success stories: The M...

About this event: TEDxHackneyChange will broadcast live from TEDxChange. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a strategic partner of the TEDx program, and together we teamed up for a very special project called TEDxChange -- an initiative devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. The TEDxChange team works with TEDx o...

I wish that you will help me recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, empower and connect. The plan A billion people around the world lack access to health care, simply because they live too far from a doctor or clinic. For them, getting m...