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Episode 7
What happens when capitalism, pandemics, and the enduring legacies of colonialism converge?
Public health was used as a tool of empire for centuries. Epidemiology, in part, was born of the massive data possibilities presented by captured populations. Public health helped to keep the people who were pillaging Africa healthy enough to extract resources and keep enslaved and colonized peoples healthy enough to work. Has the field shed its colonial lens? What is “global health”? And what do legacies of colonialism mean for addressing ongoing and future pandemics?
