The session’s opening presentation places COVID-19 in the context of past pandemics, looking to history for insight into our present moment. John Barry — an author, historian, and expert on the 1918 Great Influenza — draws parallels between past and present pandemic responses, illuminating lessons that can bolster our preparedness today and in the future.
John Barry is a New York Times best-selling author, historian, and Distinguished Scholar at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The National Academies of Sciences named his 2004 book, “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History,” a study of the 1918 pandemic, the year's outstanding book on science or medicine. He has advised various government entities on pandemic preparedness and response, and his articles have appeared in such scientific journals as Nature and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
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