Dr. Foxman's article in The Pursuit, June 17, 2019

June 18, 2019

Dr. Foxman's article in The Pursuit, June 17, 2019

Betsy Foxman, Hunein F. and Hilda Maassab Professor of Epidemiology, Co-Director of ITiMS and Director of the Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (MAC-EPID) discusses epidemiology's investigative tools in The Pursuit.

Tracking a Killer: Disease Behavior and Epidemiology’s Detective Tools

https://sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2019posts/tracking-a-killer.html

"You don’t have to know an organism to track it."

"We had an opportunity to save millions of lives, yet social stigma hindered the translation of scientific evidence to good public health policy."

"With infectious diseases, what seems like a personal choice has implications for everyone else."

 Full article found at sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2019posts/tracking-a-killer.html