Biology 340pa - Colloquium: Topics in Public Health-Pandemics

We are living through an extraordinary event: the COVID-19 pandemic. But public health is never about biology alone. We cannot make sense of this global emergency unless we incorporate insights and methods from the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. We have no context for this disease without history and narrative. We cannot decode the human costs of the pandemic without economics, politics and sociology. In this research-driven colloquium, multidisciplinary teams including students from all three divisions, will tackle the origins, consequences and aftermath of this pandemic, culminating in a multi-episode podcast enhanced by an accompanying study guide. Enrollment limited to 24. Instructor permission required. (E)