Spring 2021 Helen and Jeff Herbert Family University Lecture Series - April 21

Public Health versus Personal Responsibility: Reflections on a Pandemic Year

Harold W. (Bill) Kohl III, Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology and Health Education
April 21, 8-9 p.m.

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we live and killed more than 550,000 Americans to date. To learn from this experience and to prepare for the next pandemic, serious questions about public health and personal responsibility must be addressed. To prevent death and disease, how can a collective response (and responsibility) be balanced with an overwhelming focus on personal responsibility and independence? When does the greater good impinge upon personal “freedom?”

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