2020 Sinica Open House Activity

The pathologist Folke Henschen once said: “The history of humanity is the history of disease.” As we confront the ravages of this current pandemic, we have all the more reason to look back towards humanity’s experience of handling diseases in the past.

This event is a live online broadcast, where researchers share with the public how people have historically coped with illness, especially large-scale infectious epidemics, providing guidance on how people in modern day can face the new pandemic landscape.