Extras
Steven Johnson describes the origins of cholera and how interventions stopped the spread.
How the 1854 cholera outbreak led to the birth of the modern public health system.
Historians and public health practitioners talk public health's impact on life expectancy.
Public health has doubled our life expectancy, but the system is in jeopardy.
Data has been an essential public health tool since at least the seventeenth century.
Disinformation and misunderstanding, skepticism of science, and distrust of government.
Life expectancy is declining. How do we rethink the system before it's too late?
Public health saved your life today and you don't even know it.