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Vaccines

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

Video playlists about Vaccines

The fight against viruses

18 talks • 7h 36m

What we do (and don't) know about viruses, pandemics and the vaccines that combat them.

What you need to know about medicine

10 talks • 2h 10m

A lot happens behind the scenes before medicine gets to you. Get a deeper understanding of the drugs and vaccines you may use with these compelling facts and figures.

Talks about Vaccines

Heidi Larson

Why rumors about vaccines spread — and how to rebuild trust

Posted Aug 2020

Bill Gates

How the pandemic will shape the near future

Posted Jul 2020

Jerome Kim

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

Posted Jun 2020

Nir Eyal

The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testing

Posted Jun 2020

Ofer Levy

The new science of personalized vaccines

Posted Jun 2020

Jim Collins

How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics

Posted May 2020

Seth Berkley

The quest for the coronavirus vaccine

Posted Mar 2020

Adam Kucharski

How can we control the coronavirus pandemic?

Posted Mar 2020

David Heymann

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

Posted Mar 2020

Daniel Streicker

What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics

Posted Oct 2019

Ethan Lindenberger

Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines

Posted Jun 2019

Faith Osier

The key to a better malaria vaccine

Posted Oct 2018

Dan Gibson

How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet

Posted Jul 2018

Sebastian Kraves

The era of personal DNA testing is here

Posted Sep 2016

Seth Berkley

The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late ... if they're made at all

Posted Aug 2015

Wendy Chung

Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet)

Posted Apr 2014

See all 24 talks on Vaccines

Exclusive articles about Vaccines

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The quiet war on science

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Why we must get vaccinated: to protect the people who can’t

Infectious disease researcher Romina Libster wants us to understand: Vaccines are really not a matter of personal choice. Romina Libster (TED Talk: The power of herd immunity) h...

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