Exploring Vaccine Resistance Past and Present

Deborah Brown, Ph.D. will discuss popular resistance to vaccines and other public health measures using past and present infectious disease pandemics as a backdrop. She will discuss some of the public health measures and mandates disseminated during tuberculosis, the 1918 Influenza pandemic, the polio epidemic, and our current SARS CoV-2 pandemic,  and the often present public pushback against these measures. Vaccine resistance is not a new phenomenon and approaches to increase public trust in science and enhance science literacy will be examined. 

This talk is co-hosted by North Country Live, Historic Saranac Lake and the Trudeau Institute and is one in a series of programs supported by Humanities New York.

To register for this online session, visit www.nccc.edu/live