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<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%">Mason County District Library and
Abondia Center turn to epidemiology in the public lecture series Shifting
Landscapes on Monday November 15, with Epidemiology: Why Does the Course of
Disease Matter? at 7-8:30 pm <a href="http://mcdl.pub/sl-zoom">Zoom (mcdl</a><a href="http://.pub/sl-zoom)">.pub/sl-zoom)</a>,
featuring Kenneth Dudley, M.D.,<span>
</span>assistant professor of medicine at Michigan State University College of
Human Medicine, and Jordan Powell, MPH, epidemiologist, District Health Dept
#10. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><span> </span>This
2021-2022 series is exploring six areas of our lives that have been reshaped
during the Covid-19 epidemic and the many events that have occurred in the past
20 months. Science is the second topic in the Shifting Landscapes series.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><span> </span>Kenneth
Dudley, formerly a Family Physician, now teaches epidemiology to first-year
medical students. He will address the questions, What is epidemiology? and Why
is it important? Because it is important to get human science correct, more
money has been put into epidemiology than any other field of science. He will
discuss how the result-surprising insights into how we know can be applied to
every other branch of knowledge. <span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><span> </span>Jordan
Powell will explore why there’s an epidemiologist at District Health Dept#10.
She’ll outline what is helpful for the public to know as they obtain
information from both news sources and social media as well as on DHD#10’s
website. Especially important is an understanding of the paths and patterns of
diseases, including infectious diseases like Covid-19 and chronic diseases like
diabetes and cancer. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><span> </span>In
asking questions about the nature of science, vaccines, and the epidemiological
course of the pandemic, Shifting Landscapes’ series seeks to address questions
on people’s minds. It also hopes the information helps them get more from
news sources as well as their health professionals and others about science
that matters to them.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><span> </span>There
will be no sessions in December but the Shifting Landscapes series will start
again January 10 focusing on education, including the 1619 Project (Jan10),
Critical Race Theory (Jan 17), and Teaching Difficult Truths to Children and
Youth (Jan 24). Additional topics include Race/Racism (Feb 7, 14, 21), Truth in
Politics (Mar 7, 14, 21), and Economics (Apr 4, 11, 18).</span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><font color="#ff0000"> If you are interested in hosting a live viewing of some of these future events at your library, let me know. Your attendees will be able to interact with the speaker and the rest of the viewers. We will provide press releases and brochures. This would be free quality programming for your library. </font><br></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><span> </span>Events
are free, live or by <a href="http://mcdl.pub/sl-zoom">Zoom at mcdl</a><a href="http://.pub/sl-zoom">.pub/sl-zoom</a>. Tickets are not necessary but registration is
helpful. To register: mcdl.pub/sl-register. For information check the Mason
County District Library website: <span class="gmail-Hyperlink0" style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://mcdlibrary.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black">mcdlibrary.org</span></a></span></span><span class="gmail-None"> or contact Thomas Trahey, Mason County District Library at </span><span class="gmail-Hyperlink0" style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><a href="mailto:ttrahey@mcdlibrary.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black">ttrahey@mcdlibrary.org</span></a></span></span><span class="gmail-None"> or Brooke Portmann, director of Abondia Center, at </span><span class="gmail-Hyperlink0" style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><a href="mailto:baportmann312@gmail.com" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black">baportmann312@gmail.com</span></a></span></span><span class="gmail-None"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span class="gmail-None"><span> </span>This project has been funded by grants
from Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and Michigan Humanities, an
affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.</span><span></span></p>
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