It's time to rethink public health | Shivani Patel | TEDxAtlanta

The pandemic has put in stark relief the inherent health inequities in the United States. Social epidemiologist Shivani Patel provides sobering insights into the numbers and makes a case for effective public health grounded in equity and data. Shivani A. Patel is a social epidemiologist whose ongoing research focuses on cardio-metabolic diseases. Her expertise in this area and the relationship between these diseases and severe COVID-19 symptoms made her a natural choice for the Emory University research team that began tracking COVID-19 infection and death rates in April 2020.

Shivani is leading this team in creating the national COVID-19 Health Equity Dashboard, a free tool that tracks the differences in the impact of the pandemic across communities in the United States with an emphasis on the social determinants of health. She is an Assistant Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

[jackieboyle]

Medical Science has made such great progress that there is hardly a healthy person left

[schauschau]

-watches in free european healthcare- my fav part was "America the most advanced country in the world", sure ok. keep telling yourselves that lmao.

[amitkondal]

👍 great thought and speech . I hope the world awakes about the need for public health especially India

[vishwasdhekney]

Excellent talk. Clear and succinct coverage of several perspectives of the pandemic covered. A must view for policymakers

[caitlinnnnnnnnnnnnnn]

Wow these comments are interesting! I'm a public health professional in New Zealand and we are just beginning to have these conversations across the public service sector. It's the only way forward. This talk was so clear! Really well done.

[destanydurazo]

Good way to oppress people by giving them more excuses of why they are victims and will stay that way. You are the oppressor.

[anandkakkar]

Congratulations for providing such in depth clarity on the subject.

[StrongerThanBigfoot]

We need Free healthcare in the United States

[akshats]

It's so sad to see that Ted Talks has 31M subscribers but gets only 500-1k views on most videos. People are truly uninterested in actual knowledge.

Edit: I'm talking in general and not about this particular video. There are some incredible Ted Talks but still have less views.

[Sylvestersila]

succinct, vast, confident and good mastery of the subject. Bravo

[shraejohnson]

Exceptional and not just for COVID-19 disparities. This was really outstanding-good job!

[vikrambose]

Excellent. Hope this makes the 'rethink in public health' happen quickly and soon.

[nszt]

In Turkey, the vaccine appointment time is available until night for workers. And medical staff go to homes for get the elders and the peoples live at rural area vaccinated. But we have to take appointment from an app belong to government and it can be complicated for some people. Also the vaccine amount is not sufficient unfortunately..

[imthig]

I am not hearing anything different that what PH academia has been preaching for 10 years

[hetspook]

I stoped listening after America the most advanced country in the world...
Ok NEXT 👎
Congratulations girl you made me stop following ted

[trudyanderson]

America needs free health care like Canada has.

[marcelomarcelo]

Besides all those things, the jobs making by poor people have never stoped troughout the pandemic. Staying in home is for medium and high social class.

[aarononeal]

Ted needs to talk about ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees

[LordAugastus]

That time was 10 years ago, now its overdue, and fracnkly embarrassing for leading first world nations to not have basic needs met like medicare.

[stevesebugwawo]

Great talk. Evidence based practice!!!