Rebecca S.B. Fischer

Rebecca S.B. Fischer is an infectious disease epidemiologist with training and experience in epidemiologic response (including outbreak response and rapid assessments), tropical diseases, and field methods. She has experience conducting surveillance and investigations for endemic and infectious diseases and is particularly interested in global health, emerging diseases, and international disease spread.

Two men wearing and advocating the use of flu masks in Paris during the Spanish flu epidemic, 1919

Health

What’s the Difference between Pandemic, Epidemic, and Outbreak?

The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. What exactly does that mean?

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Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

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Education & Society

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”

Since the 1930s, the idea of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” has been used in American politics, but some Jews have always taken issue with the entire concept.

Arts & Culture

Verbatim: Fredric Jameson

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Politics & History

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For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Arts & Culture

Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics

In his new book, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages.

Rebecca S.B. Fischer

What’s the Difference between Pandemic, Epidemic, and Outbreak?

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