Week 2

11 September What is a Pandemic? 

Speakers:

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor, Mailman School of Public Health and History, Columbia University

Sylvia Hood Washington, environmental epidemiologist, historian, author, Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954 

Moderators: Kate Brown and Dwai Banerjee

Readings:

Earthbeat interview with Sylvia Hood Washington: https://www.ncronline.org/file/earthbeat-interview-dr-sylvia-hood-washington Links to an external site.

Kavita Sivaramakrishna, "The Return of Epidemics,"Sivaramakrishnan The Return of Epidemics.pdf Download Sivaramakrishnan The Return of Epidemics.pdf