#1010 Immigration and Public Health 

Tuesday, January 25, 10am

#1010 Immigration and Public Health 

Instructor: Dr. Michael LeMay

This presentation discusses pandemic diseases of the past during periods of mass migration.  It covers the gradual understanding of the concept of disease, what causes disease, and the pandemic spread of some epidemics.  It focuses on the development of germ theory and how that development influenced America to control the entrance of immigrants to the United States.  And how public health gradually evolved from the U. S. Marine Hospital Service to the U.S. Public Health Service, with its use of disinfection, vaccination, and vector control to battle pandemic outbreaks.

Michael LeMay, Professor Emeritus – California State University at San Bernardino, PhD in Political Science and History from the University of Minnesota, a BS and MA in Political Science and History from the University of Wisconsin.  He is a retired professor who taught for 35 years at the University of Wisconsin, Frostberg State, and California State University at San Bernardino.  He has written 36 books.

Location: Zoom and Video

$30 Nonmember/$20 Member