Episodes
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The New Playbook
S1 E4 - 54m 5s
With all the challenges the public health sector faces, and life expectancy declining, how will a committed next generation of public health workers going overcome these obstacles?
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Inoculation & Inequity
S1 E3 - 53m 49s
Public health officials face disinformation, skepticism of science, and distrust in government as they begin vaccinating the public against COVID. Historical injustices and inequities lead to apprehension, forcing public health to refine its approach.
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Follow the Data
S1 E2 - 54m 3s
Data has been an essential public health tool since at least the seventeenth century. Helping the world understand and mitigate the spread of disease, data has helped us make sense of the threats to our collective health.
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The Old Playbook
S1 E1 - 54m 2s
History repeats itself. It’s not the first time the world has had to deal with a pandemic, and the push highlights how the public health sector had to go back to work.
Extras + Features
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The Origins of Cholera
S1 E2 - 2m 57s
Steven Johnson describes the origins of cholera and how interventions stopped the spread.
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Cholera and the Modern Public Health System
S1 E2 - 1m 12s
How the 1854 cholera outbreak led to the birth of the modern public health system.
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Episode 1 Preview
S1 E1 - 30s
History repeats itself. It’s not the first time the world has had to deal with a pandemic, and the push highlights how the public health sector had to go back to work.
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Life Expectancy
S1 E1 - 2m 5s
Historians and public health practitioners talk public health's impact on life expectancy.
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Extended Preview
S1 - 1m 53s
The Invisible Shield, a four-part documentary series, reveals a little-known truth: that public health saved your life today and you probably don’t even know it. But while public health makes modern life possible, the work itself is often underfunded, undervalued, and misunderstood.
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Preview
S1 - 30s
The Invisible Shield, a four-part documentary series, reveals a little-known truth: that public health saved your life today and you probably don’t even know it. But while public health makes modern life possible, the work itself is often underfunded, undervalued, and misunderstood.
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Episode 4 Preview
S1 E4 - 30s
With all the challenges the public health sector faces, and life expectancy declining, how will a committed next generation of public health workers going overcome these obstacles?
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Episode 3 Preview
S1 E3 - 30s
Public health officials face disinformation, skepticism of science, and distrust in government as they begin vaccinating the public against COVID. Historical injustices and inequities lead to apprehension, forcing public health to refine its approach.
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Episode 2 Preview
S1 E2 - 30s
Data has been an essential public health tool since at least the seventeenth century. Helping the world understand and mitigate the spread of disease, data has helped us make sense of the threats to our collective health.
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