Please join us to celebrate the launch of influenzaarchive.org, the first comprehensive digital resource to explore the history of one of the modern world’s most devastating public health crises. The digital encyclopedia contains more than 50,000 digitized pages–correspondence, minutes of organization and group meetings, reports from agencies and charities, newspaper accounts, military records, diaries, photographs, and more–along with interpretive materials contributed by scholars of history and public health.

Howard Markel, MD and PhD, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Center for the History of Medicine will give a keynote discussing the significance of the epidemic and potential uses for the digital encyclopedia. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.