All statements about health equity

85 statements about health equity in 57 videos, by upload date.

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2017

2017-05-09 · Your Neighborhood, Your Life Expectancy — John sums up that the longevity gap between rich and poor in the US is real and very high by international standards. — video description
2017-05-09 · Your Neighborhood, Your Life Expectancy — John says recent research shows the gap between the healthiest and the sickest communities is getting bigger. — 00:00:21
2017-05-09 · Your Neighborhood, Your Life Expectancy — John says growing within-country inequality of life expectancy is not the norm: it has risen steadily in the US since 1980 but declined in most other rich countries. — 00:02:23
2017-05-09 · Your Neighborhood, Your Life Expectancy — John says the growing life expectancy discrepancy is not normal or natural; we need not accept lifespan varying by where you live, yet in the US it is getting worse. — 00:03:05

2018

2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John is totally unconvinced that these problems are not our problems or that Sierra Leone's health system should be fixed entirely within Sierra Leone. — 00:01:29
2018-11-27 · On The Melian Dialogue — John says those children did not really die of malaria, usually treatable with more robust health systems, but because the weak suffer what they must. (hedged) — 00:02:26

2019

2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says it is unacceptable that thousands of women will die in childbirth in Sierra Leone this year (2019) and thousands more of treatable illnesses, and we don't have to accept it. — 00:07:13

2020

2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says most mothers who die in childbirth there die for want of an ambulance ride, a blood transfusion or an emergency C-section: these deaths are preventable and have been for decades. — 00:02:20
2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — Hank stresses this is not good: it is bad, beyond the illness and loss of life, in the inequity of how it is hitting and will hit people. — 00:02:34
2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — Hank says the economic fallout is going to hit very unevenly. — 00:02:40
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: Almost all of those deaths are preventable with a strong health system: women die every day for want of an emergency C-section, a blood transfusion or blood pressure medication. — 00:01:27
2020-11-24 · personal risk · societal risk — John: Infectious disease never treats people equally because social orders don't; in the US mortality is far higher among people of color. — 00:00:29

2021

2021-02-02 · I Predicted the Pandemic (over and over and over again) — John: Disease does not treat people equally because social orders don't; unless unequal access to health care is addressed, pandemics will stay routine and keep harming the most vulnerable most. — 00:02:26
2021-02-02 · I Predicted the Pandemic (over and over and over again) — John: We also choose to accept a world where, on average, the poorest people die 30 years before the richest. — 00:03:24
2021-02-12 · Doing Better — Hank says access to food, water, health care, housing and education should be fair, and it is not. — 00:00:28

2022

2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John says the Kayima clinic's conditions dramatically increase the risks for mother and child, and it simply doesn't have to be this way. — 00:07:01
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — John: Child and maternal mortality are the lowest in human history and health systems are strengthening even in very poor communities, but profound health inequities persist. — 00:02:55
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — John: Paul was never satisfied with progress amid such injustice and we shouldn't be either: health-care access and justice cannot wait, and his partners will carry his legacy forward. — 00:02:55
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John says health disparities are driven not by personal choices or values but by inequity and injustice. — 00:02:26
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John says the question is not whether someone should have expected a pregnancy but whether someone should be able to expect to survive pregnancy. — 00:02:55
2022-06-21 · On Disease — John says there is nothing natural about people dying of cholera in Haiti but not in the United States. — 00:01:56
2022-06-21 · On Disease — John says poor people in the United States are almost twice as likely as rich people to develop heart disease. — 00:01:56
2022-06-21 · On Disease — John says examining how we imagine illness is productive because so much illness is caused not by bacteria or viruses but by poverty, lack of clean water and other human-built systems. — 00:03:24

2023

2023-01-03 · TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH — John: In 2023 John wants to keep advocating for global health equity and better funding of health care systems, but without yelling at strangers online. — 00:01:56
2023-03-14 · The Seduction of Despair — John says 1.6 million people will die of tuberculosis this year (2023), not for lack of understanding or cures, but because of inequitable access to health care, impoverishment and other injustice. — 00:00:55
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — John asks whether Robert David really died of TB or of poverty and systems that do not act as if all human lives are equally valuable. — 00:02:26
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — John says many TB drugs were synthesized between 1950 and 1961, but none was developed between 1961, around when TB stopped being a problem in rich countries, and 2012. — 00:03:24
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John says these deaths are simply not acceptable, and also that we don't have to accept them. — 00:01:27
2023-05-09 · on hope — John says it is equally true that there should have been a hospital here many decades ago. — 00:03:28
2023-06-27 · Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion — John says a big thing both learned about cancer is how unequal access to treatment is, in the US and rich countries and especially between rich and poorer countries. — 00:05:44
2023-07-11 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson — John says all human lives are equally valuable, and it is completely unacceptable that people will die this year (2023) of a curable disease. — 00:01:27
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says tuberculosis is ultimately caused by crowded living conditions, malnutrition and other symptoms of poverty, which he calls the world's leading cause of death. — 00:04:22
2023-08-15 · Henry — John says global health authorities deemed the bedaquiline protocol too expensive, so people like Henry could not get it. — 00:01:27
2023-08-15 · Henry — John says none of that should require extraordinary efforts: Henry should never have become so sick, cost his mother her savings, missed years of school, or been denied bedaquiline because of where he was born. — 00:06:16
2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — John says Danaher's prices should acknowledge that GeneXpert tests are publicly funded public goods, not means to enrich the world's richest at the expense of the poorest. — 00:05:04
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — John says the core disagreement with Danaher and Cepheid is that a tool the neediest can't use is not useful; citing Dr. Peter Mugyenyi on HIV drugs, he says medicine fails unless it both invents and distributes treatments. — 00:20:05
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says because TB is the deadliest infectious disease, hits poor communities, and kills millions a year while disabling more, the tests' cost must be as low as possible, especially for multidrug-resistant TB. — 00:04:22
2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John tells the UN that TB today is in the same situation: the cure is where the disease is not, and the disease is where the cure is not. — 00:03:33
2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: For John, writing about tuberculosis is a way to understand historical and contemporary inequities: the toll of a disease the rich world ignores resulted from historical forces and TB's own quirks. — 00:02:47
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says access to cancer care is inequitable everywhere, but most people who get cancer live in low and middle income countries, where appropriate care can be very hard to access. — 00:00:50
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says Hank made clear in that first call that the same cancer in two people in different circumstances is not really the same cancer: different standards of care mean different outcomes. — 00:04:00
2023-11-10 · My Final Chemo Secret — Hank says during treatment he was obsessed with being extremely lucky to live at a time and place where treatment for his disease was available, so he would probably be okay. — 00:02:05
2023-11-10 · My Final Chemo Secret — Hank says the treatments are old and not that expensive, but hard to get to different places. — 00:02:32
2023-11-10 · My Final Chemo Secret — Hank says it just shouldn't be that way, and people are working hard to change it. — 00:02:50
2023-12-08 · Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? — Hank says some people on Earth today live the reality of the US 80 years ago, and we don't have to live in a world like that. — 00:05:59
2023-12-19 · End of a Rough Year — John calls it unacceptable that 200,000 people will die of drug-resistant TB this year (2023), most never able to get one of the molecular tests because there aren't enough. — 00:03:40

2024

2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Supposing Nerdfighteria's share of that change were 20%, John reckons advocacy created a bigger financial win for global health equity than Good Store and the Project for Awesome combined. (speculative) — 00:04:42
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says we can't afford not to implement comprehensive STP strategies in high-burden communities: there is no excuse for over a million people a year dying of a curable disease. — 00:03:21
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says comprehensive care has long been seen as too expensive or complicated for poor countries, an insane situation where a TB cure exists but doesn't reach the places it is needed. — 00:00:58
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says there are many examples of failing to keep up or follow through with commitments in global health and equity, and he wants to be conscious of that. — 00:02:26
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John finds it infuriating that the world's deadliest infectious disease still kills over a million people a year though curable. — 00:05:21
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John doesn't want to undermine the Sierra Leone maternal work, but PIH calls comprehensive TB care the next big thing in global health equity. — 00:05:21
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says tuberculosis has been curable since the 1950s, yet over a million people die every year of a disease we know how to prevent and cure, which he calls insane. — 00:00:58
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says we in turn have shaped TB, because the disease follows the trails of injustice that we blazed for it. — 00:02:15
2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says people dying of undiagnosed cancer for lack of a test doesn't have to be this way. — 00:03:24
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John: Answering a viewer who asks them to punch tuberculosis in the face, John says that if there were a lot of tuberculosis in the US, it would be dealt with. — 00:09:35

2025

2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — In a comment, John says a better TB vaccine is needed and the main reason there is none is lack of investment in illnesses that mostly affect the poor. — creator comment
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says we know how to live in a world without tuberculosis, but we choose not to. — 00:05:43
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says the same holds for TB: this year (2025) thousands of doctors will be unable to save millions of patients because the cure is where the disease is not. — 00:06:20
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says he learned along the way that TB is both a form and an expression of injustice. — 00:06:20
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says because TB spreads well in crowded slums and factories it is seen as a disease of poverty, walking the trails of injustice we blazed for it. — 00:08:43
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John recalls that when Hank got Hodgkin lymphoma he said it has a 93% cure rate for those who can access treatment and a 20-70% cure rate in low- and middle-income countries. — 00:03:24
2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John says these diseases are cured not only by biomedical interventions but by reforming systems to include more people and reflect that all human lives have equal value. — 00:03:53
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says that because TB has been curable since the 1950s, its cause can no longer really be said to be Mycobacterium tuberculosis; on some level the cause is us. — 00:20:07
2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John says TB and other diseases of injustice do not strike randomly: they follow the paths of injustice and inequity that humans blaze. — 00:03:24
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says Guimaras is not a special hotspot: TB is rampant throughout much of the world even though we know how to cure it. — 00:03:24
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — Replying to Hank, John says his tuberculosis obsession is a path into a larger obsession he has had since being a hospital chaplain: why suffering is so unjustly distributed and what human-built systems can do about it. — 00:00:00
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John: Returning to the question he has asked since 22, John answers that suffering is unjustly distributed because we fail to build systems reflecting that all human lives have equal value. — 00:03:53
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says we instead build systems where his brother can receive cutting-edge curative cancer care while for others the same diagnosis is a death sentence. — 00:03:53
2025-11-04 · The Real Question — John says what keeps him up is not TB itself but that TB is one facet of a much larger injustice, which he argues actually should keep him up at night. — 00:04:23
2025-11-10 · My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge — Hank: The second component is how justly or unjustly those tools are distributed, from tuberculosis to cancer treatment to new ways to unblock blocked blood vessels. — 00:04:50
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — ask: John: Asked how best to support Partners In Health, John says by far the best way is a monthly or one-time donation at pih.org, or pih.org/hankandjohn for the MCOE specifically. — 00:02:35
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — ask: John says it is also valuable to talk to friends and family about Partners In Health or about global health inequity more broadly. — 00:02:35
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says over a million people die every year from tuberculosis, though almost all could be saved by a drug regimen costing less than $300, which he calls bonkers. — 00:02:35
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John says in the US he would be offered TPT without problem if a relative got TB, but not in many high-burden countries like Indonesia, which reveals problems we face as a world. — 00:10:49
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says TB persists partly because it is hard to cure but mostly because we've failed to build systems that treat all human beings as equal, as Isatu's absence reminded him. — 00:05:50

2026

2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John thinks people who want to live forever are confused about what it would mean: with health-care injustice already so bad, some living forever while others die at 80 would be far worse. — 00:55:27
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John calls this unconscionable and unacceptable, but says addressing the crisis is risky. — 00:03:24
2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says the story shows the strange incentives in creating vaccines for poor countries' diseases when they conflict with health problems of wealthy countries, whose governments can spend lots on vaccines. — 00:02:26
2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says tuberculosis has been curable since the 1950s but still kills over a million people a year because of failures of human-built systems. — 00:00:00
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John calls it a blessing to stand at a world-class facility in a place too long deemed unworthy of one, knowing the community fought to build it and will fight to maintain it. — 00:06:05
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John says he is incredibly fortunate to glimpse up close the effects of radical health care and education inequity because he gets to travel all over the world. — 00:02:36
2026-05-08 · My Deathday — Hank: Thinking about health equity, Hank checked his odds as the average person on Earth, expecting very bad news; the survival figure was much higher than he assumed. — 00:03:24
2026-05-08 · My Deathday — Hank notes that health care is not equally distributed: some places have much higher Hodgkin death rates, and in some diagnosis is unlikely. — 00:04:22
2026-09-08 · The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die — John says those benefits have been unjustly distributed. — 00:04:52