Below are selected examples of low-stake videos aimed at a general audience (without or having a minimal background in global or public health) in which we experiment with a variety of instructional approaches in the digital environment—exploring choices about content and pedagogy and designing 'learning spaces' that promote inclusion and connection without physical presence.
Content Prototypes
Demographics 101
Explore the three core drivers of demographic change: fertility, mortality, and migration.
Demographic Transition
Look at how we use a schematic to illustrate the way populations proceed through the demographic transition in a series of stages.
Population Age Structure
Explore how a population’s age structure can influence the main policy challenges in the country, and identify factors that need to be present for a country to experience a “demographic dividend.”
Viruses 101
Professor Sue J. Goldie walks through the basic structural features and properties of viruses and how infections happen in preparation for learning about pandemic risk.
Influenza 101 Part 1
It’s flu season again! Professor Sue J. Goldie reviews the structure of Influenza A, what antigenic drift is and why that means we need new vaccines each year for seasonal flu.
Influenza 101 Part 2
Professor Sue J. Goldie continues the conversation about influenza with a focus on pandemic potential and zoonotic origin as well as the "spark" and "spread" criteria necessary for a pandemic.