Where the pale rider takes medicine: the way pandemics catalyse change
Professor Nussbaum will explore how pandemics such as H1N1, HIV, and Covid-19 catalysed change in medicine, research, and public health — reshaping global health policies and revealing unintended consequences.
Drawing upon the historical record and contemporary data, this presentation will explore how H1N1 and HIV galvanized community involvement in research and accelerated medical training to research universities. The changes catalyzed by Covid-19 are ongoing, but presently include drastic cuts to US NIH research, the unravelling of USAID, reduced vaccine and infectious disease research. In early 2020, few would have predicted that a global pandemic would lead the United States to reduce commitments to health equity, academic research, and infectious diseases infrastructure. The global health reckoning underway can be traced to Covid-19 policies, programs, and unintended consequences. Historical data from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic and the HIV epidemic demonstrate how infectious disease pandemics have complex social, political, and public health implications. There is a direct through line from the Covid-19 pandemic to major global health calamities evolving now. As a leader at an American hospital system and practising clinician, Prof Nussbaum will trace the long arc of pandemics to their logical and illogical conclusions.
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Professor Abraham Nussbaum
Professor Abraham Nussbaum is Interim Chief Academic Officer at Denver Health and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado. He has written two books about medical education and several psychiatrist textbooks which have been translated into fifteen languages. He is a thought leader at the intersection of medicine and the humanities.
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