Film centering on the avian influenza (H5N1) virus outbreaks that exploded throughout Southeast Asia in 2003 and 2005. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [64:44 min.]
Film investigating the epidemic of childhood asthma and possible links to environmental exposures. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [59:00 min.]
BBC video that looks at the various theories as to why working class people are much more likely to suffer ill health and die young than those in professional classes. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [49:14 min.]
PBS program that asks why an AIDS vaccine has been so elusive, what progress we are making, and what obstacles continue to stump some of the most brilliant scientists in the world. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [57:07 min.]
Dr. Winnie King presents true stories from families, and facts from experts, about protecting children from mercury and lead poisoning. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [28:55 min.]
Brief 2007 documentary about the battle against tuberculosis in Alaska in the 1950s, written by Sarah Hobart and produced by American Lung Association in Alaska [13:09 min.]
Five women from diverse backgrounds discuss the ways in which they are dealing with AIDS. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [40:08 min.]
Film with award-winning reporter Sorious Samura about the impact of HIV/Aids in Zambia. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [51:55 min.]
Documentary looking at findings that point to pollutants as the cause of endocrinal changes in the male reproductive system. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [54:39 min.]
Documentary examining the social, economic, and cultural implications of the impending retirement of the 77 million members of the "Baby Boomer" generation. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [56:47 min.]
Film using case studies to look at the question of how new diseases arise and why they do or don't spread. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [53:27 min.]
Film that gives a historical account of the spread of bubonic plague (Black Death) and cholera. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [60:06 min.]
Program showing the interaction between two epidemics, HIV and syphilis, fostered by drug use and prostitution. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [58:09 min.]
Episode of History Channel's Modern Marvels, about the quest for a polio vaccine that eventually ended with Jonas Salk's revolutionary discovery in the early '50s. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [44:26 min.]
A dozen young men and women who contracted HIV in their teens tell their story of their lives with the disease. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [25:39 min.]
PBS documentary investigating the causes, costs, and consequences of adolescent childbearing. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [67:33 min.]
Film following the story of Sinesipho, a young South African girl living with AIDS. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [57:31 min.]
State of Alaska Public Health Nursing Recruitment
Public health nurses in Alaska describe the benefits, challenges, and purpose of their work in this video series produced by the State of Alaska Department of Health & Social Services.
Panel and audience explore reasons why teens become sexually active, why some become pregnant and others don’t, the need for better education about birth control, and the many challenges teen mothers face. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [26:14 min.]
Documentary about the collaboration among workers, unions, and health professionals to uncover the causes of occupational disease and eliminate workplace hazards. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [42:00 min.]
Episode of The Human Condition looking at America's obesity problem and the importance of maintaining a healthy weight. AVON: Academic Video Online, available to UAA users. [28:44 min.]
In this student-produced video, Dean Howard Frumkin, faculty, and students of the University of Washington School of Public Health tell us how they are making our lives healthier and safer. [6:52 min.]
KSKA's Line One: Your Health Connection, January 20, 2014. Dr. Thad Woodard interviews Dr. Benjamin Danielson of the University of Washington Department of Pediatrics and Medical Director of the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic in Seattle about the ways culture affects health care.
KSKA's Addressing Alaskans. Lecture by Dr. Tracey Woodruff, professor in UCSF’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, recorded March 25, 2014, at UAA.