Bellingham City Club:Politicizing the Nation's Public Health

oin the Bellingham City Club on November 19th as Dr. Alan Lifson discusses how the current federal administration has systematically and severely damaged the nation’s public health infrastructure by ignoring science and promoting unproven, false, or misleading narratives; gutting the nation’s public health agencies; causing severe cutbacks in medical research on new developments to prevent or treat disease; and abandoning our support for global public health.

These changes have made those of us in Washington state and Whatcom County more vulnerable to a wide variety of health threats, and less able to respond to pandemics that we will likely face in the future. He will also discuss what we can do to protect our own health.

Dr. Alan Lifson is Professor Emeritus from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health’s Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, and School of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health.

Program: 12:00 p.m., November 19, at the Bellingham Yacht Club
2625 S Harbor Loop Dr.; Tickets for BCC members $25; non-member price is $30; youth under 25 is $10; program only tickets (no meal or table seating) are $10. Register HERE by 11/16 at 6:00 p.m.