Related to last week's class

(this is unrelated to the current topic, I just thought it would be an interesting addendum to last week's class.)

Dr. Stevens showed a chart in class relating child mortality rates and GDP and he got it from the Karolinska Institute. They have made what they do freely available, and the program is really, really cool and you can use it here:

Gapminder

One of the professors and leading people at Karolinska (and Gapminder) is Hans Rosling, and he's done a number of TED talks about global health (and other global trends). He shows some of the fun ways to use this program. I highly recommend you check him out, as he's a very engaging speaker and his insights are great. I embedded his first talk here, so hopefully you have 19 minutes to spare to check it out. Admittedly, this has little to do directly with public health, but Rosling is very good at showing how to interpret data and trying to change people's preconceived notions about the world.



If you want to check out some of his other talks (they're all super fascinating), just peruse the Gapminder video section. Also, I must mention that a lot of these deal with health issues very directly (i.e. breast cancer). And they're shorter (4 minutes or so).