Host David Wrobel speaks with Nancy Tomes, distinguished professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of History and one of America’s most influential historians of medicine, about the forces reshaping public health since 9/11 and today. Tomes breaks down how profit‑driven health care, political polarization, and eroding trust in science shape the world we’re living in featured in her new book, "Viral Fears", a powerful exploration of misinformation and pandemic anxiety.

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The Difference You Make: The Ideas That Matter is a production of the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University.

Host: Dean David Wrobel
Editor: Rachel Rodriguez