Session 6 | Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health

From Department of History Department May 18th, 2020

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Session 6 | After Epidemics: The Challenge of Reinventing Public Health

Saturday, May 9, 2020 | 1:30 - 3 pm

From cholera to polio and AIDS, epidemic crises often spur societies to reinvent public health. How have societies in the past retooled public health practices and administration after epidemics? What implications might we draw for the remaking of national and global public health in the wake of the 2020 coronavirus?

Presenters:

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, University of Toronto | The Pasts and Possible Futures of Global Public Health
Akwasi Kwarteng Amoaka-Gyampah, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana | Past and Future of Sanitary Inspection
Dora Vargha, University of Exeter | Polio and Global Health Politics
Nancy Tomes, Stony Brook University | Informing and Misinforming the Public
Moderator: Keith Wailoo, Princeton University

Date: May 9th, 2020
Speaker: Anne-Emanuelle Birn, University of Toronto; Akwasi Kwarteng Amoaka-Gyampah, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana; Dora Vargha, University of Exeter; Nancy Tomes, Stony Brook University; Keith Wailoo, Princeton University
Department: Department of History and the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM)
Location: ZOOM
Appears In: History

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