HarvardX: Confronting COVID-19 - Class 13: Masks: Science, Policy, Politics

Clip from the Lessons from Ebola and Zika: How to Prevent the Next Pandemic Event. Public Health "shouldn't be a partisan issue". COVID-19 pandemic. This class will closely examine the mask as a medical technology, as a
material object, and as a political symbol in the context of the pandemic.
GUEST FACULTY :
● Atul Gawande - Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard
T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Brigham
and Women’s Hospital
● Hannah Marcus - Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Department of the History
of Science
● Julia Marcus - Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Institute