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Hiding In Plain Sight: Artistic and Design Interventions to Public Health Challenges
Taboo Health September 26, 2022
By Rio Sousa and Maria Cheung In our last PH Spot article, “Art as a Tool for Public Health Engagement: A Canadian Overview”, we touched
The only way round, is through: A mental health narrative of a graduate student
Sarah Martone April 6, 2022
My name is Sarah Martone, I am a public health professional, and I also have depression. Like most people, the COVID-19 pandemic was an incredibly
Helping Myself by Helping Others: Becoming a Public Health Inspector at Conestoga
W. Chase Morton March 18, 2022
Although deciding to return to school in my mid thirties was not easy, deciding to enroll in the Bachelorof Environmental Public Health (BEPH) at Conestoga
The PH SPOT Essential Guide:
A step-by-step manual for finding, applying to, and thriving in research and teaching assistant roles during graduate school
Meghan Haffey March 2, 2022
Are you a masters or doctoral student looking for guidance on how to secure that research or teaching assistant role? Looking for a convenient way
The COVID-19 Rollercoaster: An Epidemiologist’s Perspective on Working Through the Pandemic
Maria Qadri January 19, 2022
Waiting in line A fresh graduate from public health, I was beyond excited and enthusiastic to get started in my epidemiology career. But, as we
Top 5 PH SPOT Blog Posts
PH SPOT December 29, 2021
In celebration of our final blog post of 2021, we’re excited to share with you the top 5 most frequently read PH SPOT articles from the past year. The PH SPOT team wishes you a very happy new year! Stay tuned for more exciting blog posts in 2022.
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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.”
