With coronavirus outbreaks on the rise in the U.S., we turn our attention to COVID-19 for today’s episode. First, epidemiology researcher Robyn Gershon discusses American public health infrastructure, disaster preparedness, and the effects of the epidemic on healthcare and service-industry workers. Then, Oakland-based journalist Alexis Madrigal gives a breakdown of his round-the-clock research for The […]
Public History: WWI and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Today on the program, we look back one hundred years to the public health effects of World War I and the influenza pandemic of 1918 with Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, curator of the Staggering Losses exhibit at UW–Madison’s Ebling Library for the Health Sciences. Due to additional interest, the exhibit has been extended through Sunday, April 5, […]
