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