Speakers
Session Host and Moderator: Allison Aiello, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill

“The 1918 Flu Pandemic: A Worldwide Historical Perspective”
Howard Markel, MD, PhD, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Michigan

“Narrative Frames and Contagion: How They Shape Our Collective Response to Pandemics”
Priscilla Wald, PhD, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English, Duke University

“The Historical Context of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in North Carolina and the South”
James L. Leloudis, PhD, MA, Professor, History; Peter T. Grauer Associate Dean for Honors Carolina; Director, James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, UNC-Chapel Hill

About the Symposium
This interdisciplinary symposium to mark the 100th anniversary of one of the deadliest pandemics in human history took place April 4-6, 2018, at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Symposium events offered perspectives from the vantage points of medicine, health, social sciences and the humanities. Speakers included leading experts in epidemiology, virology, medicine, communications, literature, history, ethics, policy and other fields.

Sponsors included UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Libraries, UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and RTI International.

https://sph.unc.edu/nciph/1918-flu-symposium/