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Book Review – Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers
Tasha McAbee July 30, 2021
In Waste, Catherine Coleman Flowers intricately weaves together narrative storytelling and an exposé of US history to tell a harrowing tale of environmental injustice in
Journeying into a new field
Deiriai Myers July 11, 2021
I have always been interested in pursuing a career in the health sciences. However, living through the COVID-19 pandemic and watching multiple health and societal
Book Review – Marching Towards Coverage by Rosemarie Day
Tasha McAbee June 28, 2021
Health policy expert, Rosemarie Day, played a leading role in Massachusetts’ health care reformin 2006, which later became the model for the Affordable Care Act.
Tips for Undergraduate Students Wanting to Pursue a Master’s Degree in a Public Health Field
James Jung June 16, 2021
During the summer before I was entering my final year of undergraduate study, I had to think hard about what I wanted to do after
Continuation of meaningful occupations amidst uncertainty
Gobika Sithamparanathan June 2, 2021
To start my story, I am going to take you folks back to the second week of March. I can still remember working with my
Book Review – A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
Tasha McAbee May 19, 2021
Harriet Washington knows how to frame an argument. She writes and organizes evidence in such a way that by the time you would have a
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THE GREAT INFLUENZA: THE STORY OF THE DEADLIEST PANDEMIC IN HISTORY by John M. Barry
“Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, “The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that…those in authority must retain the public’s trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart.” At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.”
