Disease

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Disease.

Video playlists about Disease

The link between health and racism

9 talks • 2h 2m
Learn about the detrimental (and even deadly) impact racism has on our minds and bodies — and what society can do to heal and support the wellbeing of all.

The fabulous life of germs

8 talks • 1h 47m
Germs -- they get around. Learn what their travels and overall existence can teach us about not just ourselves, but the past, present and future of humanity.

Survivor’s wisdom

13 talks • 3h 0m
Powerful, perspective-shifting talks on what it means to live courageously.

11 ideas for ending HIV/AIDS

11 talks • 2h 13m
These powerful talks offer ideas for rethinking—and hopefully stopping—the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Talks about Disease

6:34

Sophie Rose

How COVID-19 human challenge trials work — and why I volunteered

Posted Nov 2020
10:46

Johanna Benesty

What it takes to crush a pandemic

Posted Nov 2020
20:59

Leor Weinberger

Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?

Posted Oct 2020
43:07

Bill Gates

How the pandemic will shape the near future

Posted Jul 2020
23:32

Jerome Kim

The trials, tribulations and timeline of a COVID-19 vaccine

Posted Jun 2020
11:44

Ofer Levy

The new science of personalized vaccines

Posted Jun 2020
15:17

Joia Mukherjee

How to quickly scale up contact tracing across the US

Posted Jun 2020
32:41

Georges C. Benjamin

The secret weapon against pandemics

Posted May 2020
5:54

Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi

A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic

Posted May 2020
15:41

Larry Brilliant

A global pandemic calls for global solutions

Posted Apr 2020
1h 2m

Seth Berkley

The quest for the coronavirus vaccine

Posted Mar 2020
51:50

Bill Gates

How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic

Posted Mar 2020
3:37

Adam Kucharski

How can we control the coronavirus pandemic?

Posted Mar 2020
8:06

David Heymann

What we do (and don't) know about the coronavirus

Posted Mar 2020
4:48

Ellen Agler

Parasitic worms hold back human progress. Here's how we can end them

Posted Jan 2020
4:41

Christopher Bahl

A new type of medicine, custom-made with tiny proteins

Posted Jan 2020
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Exclusive articles about Disease

3 articles on the danger of Ebola paranoia

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What can we learn from how animals cope?

Author of the book Animal Madness, TED Fellow Laurel Braitman shares 5 ways in which animals and humans suffer from similar mental illnesses. Anthropomorphism run amok? You deci...
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