What happens after outrage fades?
TEDMED revisits Ralph Nader’s civic-change framework for a moment when visibility is everywhere, but durable change still depends on discipline, organization, and staying power.
This Week at TEDMED: What Turns Attention Into Change
Attention can spark change. But lasting progress takes structure, pressure, and people willing to stay with the work.
Rebuilding is a form of resistance
Christine Nieves brings a human lens to what sustained change requires, showing how care, community, and persistence become essential after crisis disrupts everything.
Health is never shaped by medicine alone.
This playlist explores how systems, policies, communities, and inequities shape health, and why justice is inseparable from the future of care.
Editor’s Picks: The Systems We Live Inside
A selection of TEDMED Talks on the unseen structures that shape health, behavior, and public life.
Why hospitals are making us sick
Robin Guenther – Principal at global architecture and design firm Perkins+Will and a Senior Advisor to “Health Care Without Harm” – explores some unusual connections between health and…
What happens if the government shares health data openly?
Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health IT at the DHHS, and Chopra, the U.S. CTO, talk about how open access to electronic health data can reform physician pay and…
Can we rewrite the DNA of the healthcare system?
Rebecca Onie, co-founder of Health Leads, talks about her organization’s efforts to link social services efforts to healthcare, helping to ensure patients have the basic resources needed to…
The coming crisis in antibiotics
At TEDMED, health economist and professor Ramanan Laxminarayan applies lessons learned from the energy crisis to the rising challenge of antibiotic drug resistance.
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