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Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

How to make your own eyeglasses for about one pound: an Oxford technology created to benefit the developing World

Professor Joshua Silver talks about his invention of the self adjusting spectacles.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Rift Valley Fever

Dr George Warimwe talks about his research on Rift Valley Fever.
Global Health

Rift Valley Fever

Dr George Warimwe talks about his research on Rift Valley Fever.
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

11. Does Government belong in the bedroom?

There are many examples, from the ancient world to Nazi Germany, of attempts to protect or to increase the birth rate and hence population size. Slides to accompany Prof David Coleman's talk on birth control from governments.
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

10. Who's afraid of population decline?

Fear of population decline has haunted states ever since states existed. Population size was the basis of the power, security and prosperity of any political entity. Slides to accompany Professor David Coleman's on the fear of population decline.
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

09. Bringing down the birth rate - family planning in the developing world

Traditionally, high birth rates were high. But as they were balanced by high death rates, population growth rates were usually very low. Prof David Coleman looks at family planning in the developing world.
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

08. After the demographic transition in the developing world

Fertility in all but 12 countries in the world is now falling. Where will it stop? In this talk, Prof David Coleman looks at the demographic transition in the developing world.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Can we eradicate Tuberculosis?

Dr Helen Fletcher talks about progress in the development of a vaccine against tuberculosis.
Epidemics and Vaccines

Can we eradicate Tuberculosis?

Dr Helen Fletcher talks about progress in the development of a vaccine against tuberculosis.
Alumni Weekend

Earthquake Science in the 21st Century

Dr Richard Walker talks about the science behind earthquakes and the methods used to study them by giving examples from recent global disasters.
Epidemics and Vaccines

Tuberculosis

Professor Helen McShane talks about her work on a new vaccine against tuberculosis.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Tuberculosis

Dr Helen McShane has been working on a new TB vaccine for 10 years. She explains why developing countries are especially in need of a new vaccine since HIV and TB epidemics overlap and show a devastating synergy.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Malaria and Global Health

Dr Climent Casals-Pascual explains how the development of new tools to diagnose and manage malaria more effectively will allow us to decrease the mortality of this condition.
Malaria

Malaria and Global Health

Dr Climent Casals-Pascual tells us how new tools can help us diagnose and manage malaria more effectively.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Malaria Vaccines

Professor Adrian Hill has been studying the immune system and malaria susceptibility in African children for years. We asked him about his latest findings in the development of vaccines against malaria.
Malaria

Malaria Vaccines

Professor Adrian Hill talks about recent developments of vaccines against malaria.
History of Tropical Medicine at Oxford

Dr. Brian Angus on Tropical Medicine

Writer and medical historian Conrad Keating talks to Dr. Brian Angus, Director of the Wellcome Trust UK Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine in Oxford, about his interest in science and how this inspired him to work with infectious diseases in Africa.
History of Tropical Medicine at Oxford

Medicine without Frontiers: An Oxford physician-scientist working in Kenya.

On one of Kevin Marsh's regular visits to Oxford, the historian Conrad Keating caught up with the world-renowned malariologist and asked him what initially drew him to tropical medicine...
History of Tropical Medicine at Oxford

Forging a New Frontier in Oxford Medicine

The historian Conrad Keating continues his history of Oxford's groundbreaking contribution to health in the tropics by asking David Warrell what motivated him to work in Africa...
Cancer in the Developing World

Cancer Research in India Part 2

Dr Vinod Raina, co-founder of the INDOX Cancer Research Network, discusses the key achievements of INDOX and the challenges involved in doing clinical trials in India.

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