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The 'Spanish' Flu

Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak.
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'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't?

In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak...
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Cholera

Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow
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Smallpox, and Jenner

Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries.
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The Great Plague

in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England.
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The Black Death

Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak.
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The Plague of Justinian

Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced.
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Athens: the first plague?

Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted.
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Resetting our relationship with nature in a post-COVID world

Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland and Professor Sir Charles Godfray discuss our relationship with nature, how it relates to the Covid-19 pandemic, and what we need to do differently in the future.
St Antony's looks at the World

St Antony's Looks At the World - Ep 7: Dr Thierry Malleret

For Episode 7, we are joined by Dr Thierry Malleret (SAM 1991-2), founder and principal author of the Monthly Barometer - www.monthlybarometer.com/.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: Invalids on the Move

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Translating Illness

Cinematic Translations: Visualising the Invisible Path of Contagion

Marta Arnaldi (Oxford) talks with Kirsten Ostherr (Rice) in another episode of Translating Illness.
Translating Illness

Global Healing: Towards a World Policy of Care

The third Translating COVID-19 video conversation, with Marta Arnaldi (Oxford) and Karen Thornber (Harvard).
Student Life at Oxford

Advice and support for 2020 finalists during coronavirus

A short audio podcast offering advice and support for Oxford finalists
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Better doctors, better patients, better decisions: Risk literacy in health

Can every doctor understand health statistics? Gerd Gigerenzer will describe the efforts towards this goal, a few successes, but also the steadfast forces that undermine doctors’ ability to understand and act on evidence.
Africa Oxford Initiative

The political life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship

Simukai Chigudu launches his book, 'The political life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship'. He explains the cholera epidemic, the response to it in Zimbabwe and from the world and life after the epidemic, remembering the epidemic
Ethics in AI

3b. AI in healthcare

Claire Bloomfield, National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging, gives the second talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Nutrient timing and human health

A UBVO Seminar given by James Betts (Professor of Metabolic Physiology, Department for Health, University of Bath) on 24 October 2019
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Can wearable sensors and machine learning enhance our understanding of lifestyle health behaviours?

A UBVO Seminar given by Aidan Doherty (Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford) on 17 October 2019
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

How mapping frames obesity and chronic disease risk factors

Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Oxford) interviews Professor Danny Dorling (School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford) for the UBVO Instruments and Institutions Interviews series, November 2019

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