Covering concepts from spillover to virus mutation, this collection of free-to-access readings provides scientific context around the COVID-19 pandemic.

After the Civil War, support for public health measures was high. Now, some people blast them as part of the "nanny state."

Some writers see contagion as a metaphor for community—proof that we exist within an interdependent network and not as autonomous disconnected islands.

If history is any guide, probably not.

How to get people to stay healthy during a quarantine? Some countries have taken to a new communications strategy, and it's super cute.

A pamphlet published in 1840 advocates a four-pronged approach to public healthcare that sounds remarkably like our own.

On the eve of its 6th polio-free anniversary, India immunizes over 170 million children, despite a lack of roads, reinfection threats, and a periodic mistrust of vaccines.

Public healthcare experts have been anticipating and planning for a pandemic like COVID-19 for years. These research reports and scholarly articles explain how.

He made us feel better.

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