CONN 490 | Bring Out Your Dead: How Past Outbreaks Informed Modern Public Health & Medicine

In modern times, it is hard to go more than a few days without reading or hearing about a pandemic or epidemic. The opioid epidemic is constantly in the news, along with the continued reporting of the long term impacts of COVID-19, and emerging threats like MonkeyPox (MPox). But, how do pandemics and epidemics differ? Is there a way to measure the impact of disease outbreaks? What can be learned from these devastating events? How have past outbreaks shaped culture throughout history? This course explores the significant influence pandemics and epidemics continue to have on the growth of modern public health, medicine, and society.