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PUBLIC HEALTH PEEPS
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
Were you paying attention to the speakers?
Public Health in the News
100
he's the father of medicine (we still use his oath)
Who is Hippocrates
100
the only infectious disease to have been eradicated as a result of vaccine campaigns
What is smallpox
100
This law sparked debate between policymakers and religious leaders due to the so-called “birth control mandate”
What is Obamacare/Affordable Care Act
100

This is the government run healthcare for low income individuals. Don't confuse it with the other that has a very similar name.

What is Medicaid

100

This man was appointed by Donald Trump to lead the department of Health and Human Services in 2025. He is known for his anti-vax views and notably eats roadkill and had a worm in his brain 

Who is Robert F Kennedy Jr.

200
He's known as the father of epidemiology because of his working mapping cholera outbreaks in london
Who is John Snow
200
when this disease first emerged in the early ‘80s, the major risk groups were known as the 4 H’s (heroin users, haitians, homosexuals and hemophiliacs)
What is HIV/AIDS
200

This epidemic receives EPIC AMOUNTS of media attention, perhaps because it relates to our not-so-healthy cultural obsession with a certain body tissue...

What is the obesity epidemic

200

This is the name of the virus that is transmitted via mosquito that Dr. Mike Caudle talked about. It can have negative consequences on the brain health of a fetus if the mother is infected while pregnant.

What is Zika

200

This outbreak has people worried right now. One way of preventing infection is to make sure to prevent contact with potentially infected fowl.

What is bird flu?

300
This American founded the american red cross (and has a school in Minneapolis named after her)
Who is Clara Barton
300
frighteningly, both drug resistant & extremely drug resistant strains of this infectious disease have been identified
What is tuberculous
300
These public health measures have received bad press in recent decades, due to a now-debunked study that linked them autism
What are VACCINES/IMMUNIZATIONS
300

This Supreme Court decision overturned the 50 year precedent set by Roe vs. Wade.

What is Dobbs?

300

This major public health institution, based in ATL, has seen massive budget cuts and the firing of thousands of employees.  

What is the CDC?

400
The founder of modern nursing, she got her start tending wounded soldiers during the Crimean war
Who is Florence Nightingale
400
what tiny creature is responsible for sleeping sickness - a disease endemic to sub-saharan africa
What is the tsetse fly
400
sales of this contraceptive device were halted in 1974 after it was found to cause pelvic infections & severe injury - in part due to the device’s jagged “fins” that often embedded in the uterus.
What is the IUD/DALKON SHIELD
400

Approximately this percent of overdose deaths are due to opioids. (anywhere in the range given)

What is 75-80%?

400

This political party has recently put forth a bill that would cut funding for Medicaid and SNAP.

Who are the Republicans?

500

In 1928, was the first to demonstrate the antibacterial properties was of this substance by Sir Alexander Flemming.

What is Penicillin?

500
in the early 1900s, the spread of this infectious disease was attributed to an irish cook, after several of her employers fell ill. the cook was perfectly healthy, but died in quarantine in 1838.
What is typhoid
500

several public health workers were recently killed in pakistan, effectively ending a campaign to prevent this disease - once a major issue in the U.S. but now only endemic in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Hint, this is what Paul B. suffered from when he was younger.

What is polio

500

This is the type of chemical that Naled is.

What is an organophosphate?

500

This is the slogan or saying that has become popular through the Trump administration regarding "bring back" the wellbeing of American citizens.

What is MAHA (make America healthy again)?