As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, it is changing our conversations about public health, about equity, about social and economic structures and norms. But we cannot forget that globally, we have endured similar hardships before.
In this PATH Live Forum, we looked back in history to consider lessons from a century ago when the 1918 influenza pandemic devastated the United States. Professor Nancy K. Bristow, author of American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, shared her insights on questions like:
- How can history shape our future?
- What lessons can we learn about gender and equity as we consider the history of pandemics?
- Can pandemics catalyze substantial change to our social security?
- How can we prevent national forgetting? What mechanisms can be put in place to ensure that it doesn’t happen again?
Speakers:
- Nancy K. Bristow, Professor of History, University of Puget Sound
- Elaine Gibbons, Executive Vice President, Global Engagement and Communications, PATH
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