C2. Roundtable Make America Healthy Again: Audience Discussion of the Role of Historians in Public Health Today Chairs: Lara Freidenfelds (co-chair) and Elena Conis (co-chair), University of California, Berkeley Lauren MacIvor Thompson, Kennesaw State University
Richard Mizelle, University of Houston
Jacqueline Wolf, Ohio University
Merlin Chowkwanyun, Columbia University
Historians of medicine have a variety of potential roles in this moment: providers of testimony about the past; supporters of public health professionals and policy-makers; scholar-activists; nuanced critics. Join us to discuss the variety of ways in which we, as historians, plan to respond to MAHA, to recognize challenges and pitfalls, and to share inspiration and insight.
