# My wish: Help me stop pandemics

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2006
- Speaker: Larry Brilliant
- Year: 2006
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_my_wish_help_me_stop_pandemics)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet, and calls for a new global system that can identify and contain pandemics before they spread.

## Lectures

1. [My wish: Help me stop pandemics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/larry_brilliant_my_wish_help_me_stop_pandemics/ca214796dad0), 26 min (TED's player)