Mosquitoes: Tiny Architects of Human History
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Throughout history, we’ve viewed significant events with a focus on human influences. But there’s another notable architect of our history that has been overlooked: the mosquito. Come learn how this tiny insect impacted the rise and fall of empires and the building of nations.
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Paul Etkind
Paul Etkind is a retired applied public health epidemiologist who concentrated primarily on infectious diseases. He worked at the local, state and national levels, and remains active in professional organizations.
Besides continuing work in epidemiology, he is active with teaching in Osher at Dartmouth and AIL, governance within Eastman in Grantham and the Upper Valley Jewish Community in Hanover, the Sherlock Holmes Club of the Upper Valley, and writing letters to the editor of the Valley News and other publications.
His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in biology (1974) from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a master’s (1976) and doctoral degree (1998) from the School of Public Health at Yale University.