Kevin J.A. Thomas, associate professor of sociology at Penn State University, joins us to talk about the panic and aftermath of the Ebola crisis — and how the disease affected one population disproportionately.
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The Epidemics That Changed The World
Frank M. Snowden, the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University, joins us to talk about how infectious outbreaks — both terrifying and romanticized — have shaped our world.
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Preventing (Instead Of Reacting To) Pandemics
Paul Farmer joins us to talk about what the global health community learned from Africa’s Ebola outbreak.
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How Global Health Went Viral
Dr. Mark Dybul, former executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, joins us to talk about the connection between global health and national security.
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Zika, Ebola And Beyond
This hour, we’ll talk about how keeping infectious diseases at bay requires a rethinking of our relationship to the animal kingdom. We’ll be joined by University of California-Davis epidemiology professor Jonna Mazet.
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Kent Brantly, After Ebola
We’ll talk to Dr. Kent Brantly and his wife, Amber, about defeating Ebola and the drive to serve others, which they write about in Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic
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Where’s Ebola Now?
We’ll talk about where viruses go when they’re in hiding with David Quammen, who writes about the topic in the July issue of National Geographic.
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Losing Thomas Eric Duncan To Ebola
Louise Troh met Thomas Eric Duncan in Ivory Coast and said goodbye to him in Dallas after he became the first person to die of Ebola in the U.S. We’ll talk to her about her new memoir, ‘My Spirit Took You In: The Romance that Sparked an Epidemic of Fear.’
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Ebola And The Law
This hour, we’ll talk about the intersection of health care and the law with Professor Nathan Cortez of SMU’s Dedman School of Law; Laura Reilly O’Hara of Strasburger & Price, LLP; and KERA health and science reporter Lauren Silverman.
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The Psychology of Fear
This hour, we’ll talk about how our brains process fear – and why it can override our intellects – with Dr. Alicia Meuret, Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center at SMU; and Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, Chair of UT-Southwestern’s Mental Health Department.
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Battling Ebola
The CDC is fighting the biggest outbreak of Ebola that Africa has ever seen. We’ll talk this hour about why the virus is so difficult to contain with a panel of local infectious disease experts.
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