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heidi.tworek@ubc.ca
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Fellow during the summer term 2022
At the Munich Centre for Global History, Heidi Tworek is working on a project about the global history of health communications. By tracing how communications networks became crucial for combating pandemics in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Tworek explores the relationship between nations, empires, and international organizations.
Communication alone could not have stopped epidemics like Ebola in 2014. But better communication could have saved thousands of lives, including during the Covid-19 pandemic. The history of health communications provides another way to understand how and why communications came to play as vital a role in disease management as medical treatments themselves.