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PUBH 411 Historical and Contemporary Challenges in Public Health

Spring 2022

Final Assignment

Please write a response to each of the following four questions. Each response should be no more than 350 words, and each is worth 5 points. Your responses will be judged on logic, insight, accuracy, cogency, and finally grammar and composition. Please submit your responses by Noon on Monday, May 2, 2022.

Works of fiction can be considered to be “cultural artifacts.”  Studying fiction deepens our insights into historical public health events and informs our actions in the face of public health challenges. Give at least one example of a public health lesson from the novel (Blindness) that applies to the current COVID19 pandemic. Compare or contrast the response in Blindness to the response in the U.S. to COVID19.

If you were in charge of a national program to address negative representations of COVID-19, what lessons or insights could you draw from the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS pandemic? What approach would you consider to combat stigma and other social inequalities associated with the coronavirus? Please focus on one at-risk population, explain the reason why you chose this population, and describe one possible approach to address representations that perpetuate stigma and social inequality.

Discuss and compare the underlying political, economic, or social cause(s) of diaspora for TWO EXAMPLES discussed in any course you have taken.

Considering the topics that we covered in Module 1 (National Response Framework components, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, hurricanes, wildfires, climate change, and the International Health Regulations), list three practical and actionable national or international policy strategies that may help to prevent and/or respond to the global threat of climate change (extreme weather, increased risk of exposure to novel pathogens, health disparities, etc.).