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Health Checks on History

About the Substack

History’s outbreaks, policies and turning points that built public health - and the lessons they keep teaching us.

About Ming Yang

I’m an editor at Nature Medicine, working in epidemiology, public and global health. I write here to explore how history shapes the way we think about health today. Views are my own.

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