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The Invisible Shield

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.

The New Playbook

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?

Episodes

  • The New Playbook: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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?

  • Inoculation & Inequity: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Follow the Data: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • The Old Playbook: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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

  • The Origins of Cholera: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Origins of Cholera

    S1 E2 - 2m 57s

    Steven Johnson describes the origins of cholera and how interventions stopped the spread.

  • Life Expectancy: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Life Expectancy

    S1 E1 - 2m 5s

    Historians and public health practitioners talk public health's impact on life expectancy.

  • Episode 1 Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Extended Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Episode 4 Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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?

  • Episode 3 Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Episode 2 Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

Schedule

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