Disease, Pandemics, and Public Health in the United States
FAIN: EH-288087-22
Ohio State University (Columbus, OH 43210-1349)
Marian Moser Jones (Project Director: February 2022 to present)
A three-week combined-format institute for 30 higher education faculty to study disease, public health, and U.S. history from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries.
This three-week combined institute will immerse educators in gripping historical case studies of disease outbreaks and health crises that shaped American history and led to the development of organized public health. The participants will study in-depth how institutional, political, economic, cultural, and ideological factors have influenced efforts to protect the public’s health and prevent disease in America over the past 250 years. They will produce syllabi, lectures, and interactive pedagogy focused on these case studies and will integrate them into their teaching.