3 Reasons Why Medications Are So Expensive
An TED-Ed Talk, that takes a look at the US supply chain to explore why medications are so expensive. For example, a... Read More
Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States
A resource from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), this short video highlights the discrepancies of life expectancy between groups... Read More
Bending the Arc
A documentary that tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, activist Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and investor Thomas... Read More
First Principles of Health Justice: A Human Right to be Healthy
A TED Talk featuring Sridhar Venkatapuram, who argues that every human being has a human right to the capability to be healthy.... Read More
Health Care Reform
A short resource from Brave New Films; various doctors discuss the health care industry and the need for health care reform. Watch... Read More
Health Inequity: America’s Chronic Condition?
A TED Talk, featuring Esteban López,MD, MBA., who discusses the systemic, avoidable, unjust, social and economic policies and practices that create barriers... Read More
Healthcare: Is it a Right or a Luxury?
A TED Talk featuring Tarik Sammour, who says that the answer each individual gives to this question depends largely on their previous... Read More
How Doctors Can Help Low-Income Patients (and still make a profit)
A 10 minute TED talk, featuring P.J. Parmar M.D., who shares in an eye-opening (and surprisingly funny) talk, the story of the... Read More
How Inequality Kills
A 15 minute TED Talk featuring, David Ansell, a physician, epidemiologist & health activist who worked for almost four decades in hospitals... Read More
How Racism Makes Us Sick
A TED Talk featuring David Williams, who developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures... Read More
My Mission to Change the Narrative of Mental Health
A TED Talk, featuring actor and mental health advocate Glenn Close, who talks about her quest to change how we think about... Read More
Sick Around the World
A Frontline documentary that examines the health care systems of other advanced democracies – UK, Germany Switzerland, Japan and Taiwan – to... Read More
The Health Care Movie
Tells the story of how the health care systems in Canada and the United States evolved to be very different, when at... Read More
The Link Between Climate Change, Health and Poverty
A TED Talk, featuring physician Cheryl Holder, who says the health impacts of climate change are already here for the poor and... Read More
The Problem with Race Base Medicine
A TED talk with social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts, who lays out the lingering traces of race-based medicine. She... Read More
Why Your Doctor Should Care About Social Justice
At TED talk featuring Mary Bassett, who discusses her experience dealing with the AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe in the 1980’s and her... Read More
World Class Health Care
A TED Talk featuring Dr. Ernest Madu, who runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica and argues that —... Read More