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Please explore these informative and entertaining videos on global health. They are organized based on the chapters in Richard Skolnik’s book, Essentials of Global Health. Thank you to Richard Skolnik for compiling this list and to Dr. Tom Hall for forwarding this information to the students of HSAN!

The Principles and Goals of Public Health

• UN Millennium Declaration
• Hans Rosling Ted Talk
• "Yes They Can"

Health Determinants, Measurements and Trends

• The Demographic Transition
• The Demographic Divide
• "The Seemingly Impossible is Possible"
• "Poor Beat Rich in MDG Race"

Health, Education, Poverty and the Economy

• UNICEF: Stability Through Education for Pakistan’s Children
• Copenhagen Consensus - Global Priorities by Bjorn Lomborg (Director)

Ethical and Human Rights Concerns in Global Health

• Tuskegee Study

An Introduction to Health Systems

• Combating Diarrheal Disease in Bangladesh
• Aravind Eye Hospital
• Doctor Shortage in Tanzania Leads to Improvisation
• The News Hour
• Netherlands Health System Mixes Cost with Quality

Culture and Health

• Professor Andrea Sankar Discusses Her Research on the Impact of Culture on Health
• Homophobia as a barrier to HIV testing

The Environment and Health

• UNICEF - World Water Day :Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
• Population, Health and Environment
• Aceh ‘superhero’ promotes hygiene and sanitation
• Awakening: Achieving Total Sanitation in Bangladesh

Nutrition and Global Health

• UNICEF: Food Fortification in Africa
• "My future in my first centimeters" (World Bank)
• Feeding Children in Somalia with Plumpy’doz
• "Nutrition for Niger (Plumpy’nut)"

Women's Health

• UNICEF Female Genital Mutilation Report in Somalia
• Obstetric Fistula in Rural Uganda
• "My Sister, My Self" from White Ribbon Alliance
• Maternal Mortality GapCast
• The Number of Children Per Women

Child Health

• UN Millennium Development Goals specific to children
• "Child Health Days in Zimbabwe"
• "Caring Talk Saves Lives"
• “Saving Newborn Lives: A Success Story in Malawi

Communicable Disease

• UNICEF: Pit Latrines in Mozambique to prevent water borne diseases
• The Final Inch Trailer
• PBS: The Campaign to Eradicate Polio
• PBS: Neglected Tropical Diseases, River Blindness in Togo
• AIDS in Thailand, Parts I&II & Fighting AIDS in Botswana
• Love in a time of HIV – A Positive Match
• An Incurable TB? Parts I-IV
• "UNICEF and Roll Back Malaria partnership deliver bednets to malaria-ravaged villages"
• Malaria’s Tenacious Grip
• Preventing River Blindness, Parts I&II
• Guinea Worm Disease in Africa
• Health Workers in Tanzania Battle River Blindness

Non-communicable diseases

• Global Non-communicable diseases
• "Turkey Bans Smoking in Bars, Restaurants, Coffeehouses"
• "Obesity: China’s growing Epidemic"
• "Lung Cancer Statistics"
• WHO: Mental Health

Natural Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

• Displaced Families in DRC
• Vaccinating the Public in the Midst of War - Afghanistan
• In Myanmar, the disaster of surviving the disaster (UNICEF)

Working Together to Improve Global Health

• IAVI: A World without AIDS
• IAVI: The Search for a Vaccine
• Doctors without Borders

Science, Technology and Global Health

• Antibiotics and Pneumonia in Honduras
• New Technology Improves Maternal Health
• Grameen Foundation Information Technology