What's Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems

In the past decade, we’ve changed the way we collectively view the health of the 7 billion people who occupy this planet. Health issues were once seen as an isolated national or regional problem; now they are a global concern. In 'What's Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems,' 2011 TED Senior Fellow and health care expert Alanna Shaikh lays out the most important challenges and issues in global wellness - from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS to flu, maternal mortality, and the diminishing effectiveness of antibiotics - while untangling the web of jargon that so often permeate those discussions. Shaikh, who also runs the international development focused-blog Blood and Milk, provides clear ideas about how these worldwide problems can be managed.