Do a little showandtell from my own research work, and the timing of this turned out that doing something Historical Perspective on pandemic preparedness might seem like a really interesting topic for us to is discuss. And i think i have mentioned to you all that i have been getting a lot of calls from journalists lately, and its kind of like, why in the middle of an ongoing pandemic are they calling up people like me . So i think this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course. Its about how you whoops, went too fast there. How you become a historian and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class we talked a little bit about the reaction sometimes you may get from family members when they hear youre a history major or minor or taking a history course. Why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all of this old stuff . I can tell you personally, i get those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history
Calling out people . Like me . So i think this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course. This is about how you become a historian and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class we talked about the reaction you sometimes make it from family members when they hear they when they hear you are a history major. Why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all this stuff . I can tell you personally i get those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history of health and medicine. Science is so much better today. Why should we bother looking at the history of diseases and how he responded to them . My goal today is to give you an example of why bother and why i am proud to be a historian. Come on in, justin. Why i am really psyched about what i do. That is objective number one. I want to make you proud of being a history major, so here proud. Ay of saying i am my second goal is to talk specifically about pande
Careening in this room for us and i know that the congresswoman couldnt be here today, i want to thank her for being a true champion for Public Health. Also want to thank the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner to us as we start this event. So, Big Cities Health Coalition was founded i was a former leaders for Health Departments to Exchange Strategies and address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of the residents. There we have of pediatrics will do a Measles Outbreak one oh one and why immunization is so important. The American Academy of pediatrics is a nonprofit professional organization with more than 67000 pediatricians we are dedicated to the health and safety and wellbeing of children and adolescents and young adults we publish recommended elimination schedules with the cdc American Academy physicians and gynecologist so lets go back to the history of measles in 1953 it was licensed in a 1968 the vaccine began to be over the country it
Good morning everybody thank you for coming. The executive director of the bigcity Health Coalition want to say a special thank you to Representative Office for securing the space for us and while i know the congresswoman could not be here today i want to thank her for being a true champion for Public Health also the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner as we planned this event. The Health Coalition started in 2002 is a forum for leaders of the largest metropolitan Health Department for strategies to jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of the residents we have those jurisdictions whose Health Department serves nearly 62 million or one out of five americans well have two jurisdictions here today. You have bios in front of you i will not take up time i want to introduce the panel that i will turn it over to them. The order in which they are presenting doctor kraft is the immediate precedent of aat the commissioner of health in new
So, good morning, everybody, thank you for coming. Im the executive director of the big Cities Health coalition. I want to start by saying a special thank you to representative roy allards office for securing this for us. While i know that the congresswoman couldnt be here today. I want to thank you her for being a true champion for Public Health and thank the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner to us as we started this event, planned this event. So, the big Cities Health coalition was founded in 2002 and is a forum for leaders of americas largest metropolitan Health Departments who have changed strategies and jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of their residents. We have nearly 30 we have 30 members whose Health Department serve 62 million or one in five americans and we luckily have two of our member jurisdictions here today. So you all have bios in front of you so im not going to take up too much time, but i want to introduc