Vital Perspectives: Randall M. Packard: FEVERED CITIES (with Jeremy Greene)

The Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series engages with some of the most pressing public health issues of our time, in a regular public forum catalyzed by a book.

For the first event of the fall semester, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Randall M. Packard to share his book Fevered Cities: A History of Dengue Epidemics, published on August 12, 2025! In this book, Packard explores the complex and evolving history of dengue fever, the world's most widespread mosquito-borne viral disease, as it comes up against variables caused by climate change, urbanization, and social inequities. Fevered Cities is an essential history for public health experts, historians, and anyone concerned with the intersection of disease, society, and the built environment.

This event is open to the public, and we encourage you to come even if it's your first time joining for this event series!

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Randall M. Packard is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa; The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria; A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples; and coeditor of Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda.

Dr. Jeremy Greene is broadly interested in the history of disease, and his research explores the ways in which medical technologies come to influence our understandings of what it means to be sick or healthy, normal or abnormal. His broader research interests focus on the history of disease, medical technology, the history of global health, and the relationship between medicine and the marketplace. Dr. Greene received an MD and PhD in the history of science from Harvard in 2005, completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in 2008, and is board-certified in Internal Medicine and a member of the American College of Physicians. In addition to his appointment at the Institute for the History of Medicine, he practices internal medicine at the East Baltimore Medical Center, a community health center affiliated with Johns Hopkins.

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