Public Health Timeline by Schreiber, Lindsey https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv Add some key events in public health history to help build our class timeline. en-us 2022-02-25 16:21:16 UTC 2026-03-02 01:12:34 UTC hello@padlet.com 1854: John Snow investigates the Broad Street cholera outbreak lberrym2 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2090667179 2022-03-11 15:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2090667179 1954: Trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin. lberrym2 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2090674733 2022-03-11 15:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2090674733 1840 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2362147113 The Public Health Act of 1848 was established in the UK.
Adrienne Tate]]> 2022-10-30 15:59:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2362147113 1970 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2362149176 The Environmental Protection Agency was founded
Adrienne Tate]]> 2022-10-30 16:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2362149176 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2811340218 1980 WHO declared the world free of smallpox virus

]]> 2023-12-02 15:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2811340218 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2811344729 1980

President Jimmy Carter signed a statute, gave EPA the authority to clean up uncontrolled hazardous waste sites and spills.

]]> 2023-12-02 15:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2811344729 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2811345042 1981

Dr. Michael Gottlieb and associates discovered a new syndrome of acquired immunodefi ciency, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.

]]> 2023-12-02 15:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2811345042 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2811345315 2002

The Institute of Medicine ecological model emphasizes the linkages and relationships among multiple determinants affecting health

]]> 2023-12-02 15:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2811345315 1918 Epidemic https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2885393153 Global pandemic killed ~21 million worldwide

]]> 2024-02-16 00:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2885393153 1971 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2885394350 Occupational Health and Safety Act is passed

]]> 2024-02-16 00:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2885394350 1970 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2910507392 Worldwide 34 million people live with HIV and new infections have decreased by 20% since 2001.

Izzy Roach

]]> 2024-03-08 00:03:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2910507392 2005 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2910550624 Hurricane Katrina had emergency services and public health surveillance along with disease treatment.

Izzy Roach

]]> 2024-03-08 00:33:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/2910550624 1894 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3182399418 The first epidemic of polio strikes the United States.

]]> 2024-10-22 22:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3182399418 1925 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3182400209 All states begin participating in national reporting of disease.


]]> 2024-10-22 22:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3182400209 500 BCE https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3571889081 Greeks and Romans implemented community sanitation practices.

]]> 2025-09-06 22:07:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3571889081 1988 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3571889765 Polio eradication initiative launched.

]]> 2025-09-06 22:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3571889765 1971: https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3790938824 All provinces in Canada are covered by universal healthcare.

-Ver Suarez

]]> 2026-02-16 03:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3790938824 1885: https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3790941091 The first vaccine for rabbies is developed by Louis Pasteur.

-Ver Suarez

]]> 2026-02-16 03:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3790941091 1872 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3791600193 The American Health Association (AHA) is established to serve as a lobbying group to promote Public Health in the U.S.


]]> 2026-02-16 18:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3791600193 1700 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3791601787 Bernadino Ramazzini publishes "Disease of Workers."

]]> 2026-02-16 18:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3791601787 1348–1350-Black Death https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3796499303 Black Death – origins in Asia, spread by armies of Genghis Khan, world pandemic kills 60 million in fourteenth century, one-third to one-half of the population of Europe.

Mindy Brown

]]> 2026-02-20 22:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3796499303 1858 https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3796501126
Louis Pasteur proves no spontaneous generation of life. Mindy Brown

]]> 2026-02-20 22:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3796501126 1747 James Lind's Scurvy Experiment https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3807173774 ran the first modern clinical trial on British sailors to see how different diets treated scurvy. - Esi Amoah

]]> 2026-03-01 21:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3807173774 1883 Health Insurance https://padlet.com/lschrei7/jduvfvwyue95gviv/wish/3807327348 Germany passed the first national health insurance law - Esi Amoah

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