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TEDMED 2020
April Zeoli
The frightening frequency of family mass shootings
Matt Hepburn
3 building blocks for pandemic prevention that inspire optimism
Francis X. Shen
Why every story is a brain story
Yasmin Hurd
Could CBD help opioid users overcome addiction?
Leor Weinberger
Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?
Cheryl Holder
The link between climate change, health and poverty
Laurie Hallmark
Advocating for people with serious mental illness
Cheryl King
A simple, powerful way to help prevent teen suicide
Thomas Abt
Why violence clusters in cities - and how to reduce it
Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen
Nature, folklore and serendipitous photo collaborations
Katherine Eban
A dose of reality about generic drugs
Suchi Saria
Bringing AI to the bedside
Beatie Wolfe
How music can rescue and restore our humanity
TEDMED 2018
Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin
What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes
Adam Waytz
Why do whistleblowers risk speaking out?
sj Miller
Why gender identity justice matters for everyone
Mitchell H. Katz
What the US health care system assumes about you
Jerome M. Adams
The 20th U.S. Surgeon General’s perspectives on the nation’s biggest health issues
Lydia Bourouiba
How diseases and epidemics move through a breath of air
Gerardo Reyes Chavez and Greg Asbed
How farmworkers are leading a 21st century human rights revolution
Niobe Way
Why "boys will be boys" is a myth—and a harmful one at that
Emily F. Rothman
How porn changes the way teens think about sex
Sherry Johnson
My fight to end child marriage in America
Tim Lu
Biological engineering—the nexus between computer programming and medicine
Thomas Curran
Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse
Denisse Rojas Marquez
No longer afraid: an undocumented immigrant's experience in American health care
TEDMED 2017: Limitless
Alta Charo
Should we fear gene editing?
Guo-li Ming
How organoids helped unravel the mystery of the Zika virus
Michael Hendryx
The shocking danger of mountaintop removal – and why it must end
Dan Knights
How we study the microbes living in your gut
Linda B. Rosenthal
Periods aren't a luxury. Why are they taxed like one?
Jill Goldstein
When it comes to heart and brain disorders, sex matters
Soka Moses
For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over
James Hamblin
Talking simply, not simplistically, about health
Jennifer Chenoweth
Mapping the emotional topography of a community
Sara Gorman
When was the last time you really changed your mind?
Ximena Lopez
How one pediatrician is supporting transgender youth
Heidi Allen
The cost of being uninsured in America
Greg Corrado
How doctors can help AI to revolutionize medicine
TEDMED 2016: What If
Richard Kogan
Can music heal what meds can't?
Anjan Chatterjee
How your brain decides what is beautiful
Partho Sengupta
Using holography to reshape cardiology
Alia Crum
Harnessing the power of placebos
Mona Hanna-Attisha
Flint’s fight for America’s children
Sue Klebold
My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story.
Carolyn Jones
100 People: A World Portrait
Susie Baldwin
Intervention in human trafficking through health care
James Gordon
Fulfilling trauma's hidden promise
Jeremy Farrar
How we can outsmart epidemics
Lucy Kalanithi
What makes life worth living in the face of death
Cheryl Steed
A transformative program for inmates with dementia
Johannes Haushofer
The psychological consequences of poverty
TEDMED 2015: Breaking Through
Roland Griffiths
The science of psilocybin and its use to relieve suffering
Mary Bassett
Why your doctor should care about social justice
Melissa Walker
Unmasking the invisible wounds of war
Todd Coleman
A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home
Sam Sternberg
What if we could rewrite the human genome?
Jennifer Stellar
The positive effects of positive emotions
Suzie Brown
A concert of melody and medicine
Doug Rauch
A dignified solution for wasted food
Anna Young
A maker revolution in health care
Holly Morris
Chernobyl: Flourishing lives in the dead zone
Vivek Murthy
The Surgeon General’s prescription of happiness
Kenneth Nealson
A change in the current of microbiology
Seun Adebiyi
Insights from an athlete, advocate, and survivor
TEDMED 2014: Unlocking Imagination
Brian Primack
Staying healthy might be all fun and games
Cathy Ladman
Have you heard the one about the comic with anorexia?
Nina Tandon
Borrowing from nature's living library
Marc Abrahams
A science award that makes you laugh, then think
Resa Lewiss
How an old technology became a disruptive innovation
Ramanan Laxminarayan
The coming crisis in antibiotics
Erica Frank
Eliminating the barriers to global medical education
Mark Levatich
Giving medicine a jolt
Jeff Karp
Insight outside: harnessing nature’s secrets
Ted Kaptchuk
Placebo effects make good medicine better
Carla Pugh
Getting a sense for the surgical touch
Leana Wen
What your doctor won’t disclose
Marc Koska
Exposing a breaking point in the global chain of infection
TEDMED 2013: Unexpected Connections
David Odde & Black Label Movement
If truth is beauty, can art be science?
Raghava KK
What happens now...that I can read your brainwaves?
Christopher J.L. Murray
What does a $100 million public health data revolution look like?
Eli Beer
How did volunteers save more than 40,000 lives in 3 minutes (each) last year?
Gary Slutkin
What if we treated violence like a contagious disease?
Elizabeth Marincola
What happens when science, money, and freedom of information collide?
Jonathan Bush
For Profit & Non-Profits: Can this marriage be saved?
Zubin Damania
Are you nuts for prevention?
Zubin Damania
Are zombie doctors taking over America?
John Kheir
Why couldn't we just have given her intravenous oxygen?
Salvatore Iaconesi
Can a poet and a loving community make cancer a thing of beauty?
Mick Cornett
When is a Lose-Lose a Win-Win?
Steve Gullans
When is "safe dosing" a dangerous prescription?
TEDMED 2012: The Future of Health and Medicine
Andrew Read
The bugs are getting smarter. Are we?
Mark Hyman
If we can’t cure the patient, can the community do it?
Rebecca Onie
Can we rewrite the DNA of the healthcare system?
Jon Cohen
Why don’t patients behave like consumers?
Seth Cooper
Why is my joystick smarter than your stethoscope?
Jay Walker
Ever wonder what happens to an astronaut's heart rate as he lands on the moon for the first time?
David Icke
Can I wear my computer like a second skin?
Billie Jean King and Katie Couric
Can we get America moving again?
Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece
Can you still hang 10 when you're pushing 40?
Jacob Scott
Can we stop the imaginectomies?
Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn
If you have an artificial heart, does that make you heartless?
Gregory Petsko
How will the world handle 300 million Alzheimer’s patients?
Thomas Frieden
What do you do when your best shot falls short?
TEDMED 2011: Connect. Understand. Inspire.
Freda Lewis-Hall
Where will the next medical breakthroughs come from?
Lee Stein
How did GenX inspire next-gen medical imaging?
Michael Graves
How could we design tomorrow's hospitals?
Catherine Mohr
What is the future of intervention?
Eythor Bender
What’s a good second step?
David Agus
Can we beat cancer by redefining it?
Alexander Tsiaras
How can you visualize your way to better health?
Chris Toumazou
When will wireless medicine change healthcare?
Joseph Desimone
Can Nanotechnology deliver mega-results?
Charles Pell
What does the operating room of the future look like?
Calvin Harley and Elissa Epel
What do telomeres tell you about longevity?
Regina Benjamin
When should Uncle Sam become Dr. Sam?
Quyen Nguyen
Have you got that inner glow?
TEDMED 2010
Nathan Myhrvold
What's behind my curtain?
Dean Kamen
What's behind my curtain?
Sanjay Gupta
What did we learn in Haiti?
Danny Hillis
What's behind my curtain?
Juan Enriquez
What's next in the life science industry?
Dean Ornish and Deepak Chopra
Can you, yourself, change your genes?
Sekou Andrews and Steve Connell
Who are you?
Craig Venter
Is synthetic life here or near?
Thomas Goetz
How can patients make better healthcare decisions?
Mehmet Oz and Daphne Oz and Lisa Oz
How does a family work together on health?
Marc Koska
What's the point of a syringe that breaks?
David Agus
What do proteomics have to do with cancer survival?
Rudolph Tanzi and Henry Mccance
How can silicon valley cure Alzheimer's disease?
TEDMED 2009
Daniel Kraft
Stem cells...hype, hope or reality?
Eric Silfen
How do we combine biomedical data in new ways?
Ken Kamler
How does 'sheer will' help you survive?
Goldie Hawn
Does positive imagery make you healthy and happy?
Laura Ziskin
How did I 'Stand Up to Cancer'?
Philip Low
Can sleep shed light on the brain's dark matter?
Bill Davenhall
Can geographic information keep you healthy?
Jamie Heywood
What does open research and medicine look like?
Deepak Chopra
Can you, yourself, change your genes?
Jill Sobule
How about a medical melody?
Peter Menzel & Faith D'Alusio
What does the world eat?
David Blaine
Why will I talk for only 17min 4.4 seconds?
Anne Wojcicki
Is your DNA your destiny?
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