Dutta's views
This targeted vaccination strategy involves finding active cases, isolating them, and vaccinating only immediate contacts.
What is Search and Containment?
This country was the site of the world’s last naturally occurring case of variola major smallpox.
What is Bangladesh?
Bill Foege used this two-word phrase to describe the "moral imagination" needed to believe eradication was possible
What is Unwarranted Optimism?
In Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, colonial officials used an outbreak of this disease to justify racial segregation and "clean up" the city.
What is Yellow Fever?
Before switching to a targeted approach, India spent a decade trying this "standard" method of vaccinating all 600 million people.
What is Mass Vaccination?
Bill Foege first "accidentally" discovered the search and containment strategy while working in this West African nation.
What is Nigeria?
These are the social factors (like housing and food) that Dr. Gounder says public health must address alongside medicine.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
This type of analysis, a core goal of the course, insists that health and illness must be understood through both biological processes and social/political contexts.
What is Biosocial Analysis?
This term describes the movement to put local leaders like Dutta in charge of global health rather than Western experts.
What is Decolonizing Public Health?
This Indian state was considered the "biggest smallpox hotspot in the world" in the early 1970s.
What is Bihar?
This famous smallpox survivor is often used as a "symbol of victory" in textbooks.
Who is Rahima Banu?
In the 1900s, David Barnes argues that the "etiology" (cause) of this specific disease shifted from "filth and environment" to "germs and behavior."
What is Tuberculosis?