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Mark Pendergrast
Mark Pendergrast wraps up the Inside the Outbreaks Book Club
Posted by Mark Pendergrast on July 21, 2010 Mark Pendergrast writes: It’s time to wrap up this ScienceBlog Book Club on my book, Inside the Outbreaks. I want to thank Liz Borkowski, Steve Schoenbaum, and Karen Starko for their excellent, insightful commentaries, and thanks too to those who commented here. I assume that you can continue to do so, and you can also…
Is Bioterrorism the Most Terrifying Public Health Problem?
Posted by Mark Pendergrast on July 8, 2010 Mark Pendergrast writes: Instead of responding to last week’s commentaries on this book club blog about my book, Inside the Outbreaks, I want to throw out a controversial idea that runs counter to what many public health commentators apparently believe. So I expect some disagreement here. (I will post responses to the commentaries as “comments”…
Number-Crunching at the EIS and Why Public Health is Politics
Posted by Mark Pendergrast on June 28, 2010 Mark Pendergrast writes: Thanks to commentators Liz Borkowski, Karen Starko, Steve Schoenbaum, and Mark Rosenberg for their thoughtful posts, though it appears that Mark Rosenberg’s post got cut off after his first-paragraph query asking why anyone would go into the field of public health. I will wait to respond to his post once I see…
Inside the Outbreaks
Posted by Mark Pendergrast on June 21, 2010 Mark Pendergrast writes: To kick off this book club discussion of Inside the Outbreaks, I thought I would explain briefly how I came to write the book and then suggest some possible topics for discussion. The origin of the book goes back to an email I got in 2004 from my old high school and…