Presented By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)
Perspectives on the social dimensions of infectious crises (pandemics and epidemics), and the specific role of vaccines.
THIS LECTURE WILL BE LIVE STREAMED
Vaccines are the topic of the first Lecture Video Learning developed for OLLI members. Lecture Video Learning will include videos that give background perspective combined with live presentations that offer timely updates.
Online - Free! No registration needed.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92098972759.
Presenter Dr. Alexandra Stern is the Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine and associate director of the Center for the History of Medicine. She is a medical historian with a research focus on the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States. Her expertise supplies historical context in such areas as public health, children’s health, scapegoating, ethnic relations, political governance and social restrictions, and the complex interplay among these elements that define the human and community experience during an evolving public health emergency.
Online - Free! No registration needed.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92098972759.
Presenter Dr. Alexandra Stern is the Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine and associate director of the Center for the History of Medicine. She is a medical historian with a research focus on the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States. Her expertise supplies historical context in such areas as public health, children’s health, scapegoating, ethnic relations, political governance and social restrictions, and the complex interplay among these elements that define the human and community experience during an evolving public health emergency.
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