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Vaccines

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

Video playlists about Vaccines

What you need to know about medicine

8 talks • 1h 41m

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.

The fight against viruses

16 talks • 5h 18m

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

Talks about Vaccines

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

Mark Kendall

Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper

Posted Jan 2014

Nathan Wolfe

What's left to explore?

Posted May 2012

Regina Dugan

From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone

Posted Mar 2012

Bruce Aylward

How we'll stop polio for good

Posted May 2011

Seth Berkley

HIV and flu — the vaccine strategy

Posted May 2010

Marc Koska

1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe

Posted Oct 2009

See all 18 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

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