The Barnes County Historic Society Lecture Collection Season 21 Presents: Dr. Stephen McDonough “Historical past of Public Well being in North Dakota- Classes Realized” 7:30 PM Thursday June sixteenth on the Barnes County Museum. This presentation follows the Society’s annual assembly at 7 PM.
North Dakota has a wealthy historical past of public well being spanning the smallpox epidemics of Native People to the COVID catastrophe of 2020-2022. People made a distinction. The presentation will talk about the efforts of pioneering physicians and nurses in getting important information and clear consuming water, the Spanish influenza pandemic, polio, and newer efforts with tobacco use, HIV/AIDS, immunizations, and now COVID.
Stephen McDonough MD labored as a pediatrician in North Dakota for 40 years together with 15 years on the North Dakota Division of Well being (NDDoH). He authored “The Golden Ounces- A Century of Public Well being in North Dakota” in 1989. Throughout his tenure on the NDDoH, he led efforts to battle the tobacco business and HIV/AIDS and eradicate the commonest reason behind childhood meningitis. In 2010, he turned the primary pediatrician appointed to the President’s Council on Health, Sports activities and Diet and he was the primary doctor to obtain the Bismarck Sanford “Doctor of the Yr Award” in 2013. He has additionally acquired a star quilt for helping most cancers management for the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation.
This presentation is the ultimate one for Season 21, 2019-2022. We sincerely thank all the presenters who’ve participated on this prolonged season and look ahead to Season 22 beginning in Fall 2022.
The general public is cordially invited
All Lectures are on the Barnes County Historic Society Museum and held at the side of Valley Metropolis State College. They’re free and open to the general public.
For extra info contact Wes Anderson at 701-845-0966.
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