PANDEMICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH CRISES IN UNITED STATES HISTORY 

June 5-15, 2025. Virtually June 5-6. In person June 9-15 at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Pandemics and Public Health Crises in the United States History is a combined virtual and in-person NEH Summer Institute for thirty college and university educators focused on the history of disease and public health in the United States. The program is led by Dr. Jim Harris and Dr. Marian Moser Jones, historians of public health and medicine at The Ohio State University, along with key faculty including Dr. Miranda Worthen, a social epidemiologist at San Jose State University.

angelic figure holding shield with the word "Cleanliness", caption is "At the gates. Our safety depends on official vigilance."

[Image from Harper’s Weekly, 1885. Source: National Library of Medicine.]

Pandemics and Public Health Crises in the United States History has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Democracy demands wisdom.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.