STAT October 21, 2025
We’re teaching public health students about the Covid debate to help them shape the future
We teach graduate students in public health, one of us focusing on management, one on communications. Like many in public health, we are deeply disappointed by the toxicity surrounding the subject these days. We worry about the field, its leadership, and its leading institutions. Our students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health share these concerns.
Yet this fall, we are asking them to grapple with a subject that has perhaps attracted more heat and less light than any other public health controversy of the past five years: the origins of Covid. We’ll be using a case study we developed.
Unlike most of...
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