Global Health Blog

By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of TED, the renowned conference and resulting website that distribute “riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.” For FSGers, an inherently curious bunch, it’s like intellectual candy – we’re even planning our own internal lunchtime TED talks series. And as a new member of FSG, I’ve found it to be an enormously useful tool for staying on-trend for our diverse issue areas. Over the past few months, I’ve been gaining expertise on global health: the players, the macro trends, the innovations and the challenges. I want to share with you five terrific TED talks on Global Health that I’ve come across.

1. Hans Rosling, No More Boring Data 

By Owen Ryan, Deputy Director for Public Policy at the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)

Ten years ago, the world’s wealthiest nations made an unprecedented commitment to save the lives of the world’s poor by creating The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Today, political skittishness and financial turmoil threaten to undo all of this progress. We must not allow that to happen.