Health Management and Policy,Faculty

Illustration of people coming into contact with one another.

Contact Tracing: Use Volunteers or Paid Public Health Corps?

Q&A with Angela Beck

The House of Representative plans to introduce a bipartisan bill that would create a National Public Health Corps similar to AmeriCorps that would hire hundreds of workers to help conduct contact tracing as the US moves to reopen its economy. Angela Beck discusses the idea of such a workforce.

Building mural of men wearing face masks

The Idea to 'Flatten the Curve'

Decades of studying pandemics and how to curb them led University of Michigan physician-historian Howard Markel to coin a term the rest of us now use in daily conversation.