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Additional Resources
Books
Barry, J. (2005). The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. Penguin
Books.

Fidler, D., & Gostin, L. (2007). Biosecurity in the Global Age: Biological Weapons, Public
Health, and the Rule of Law. Stanford Law and Politics.

Garrett, L. (1995). The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance.
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T).

Gaynes, R. (2011). Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases. ASM Press.

Gladwell, M. (2002). The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Back
Bay Books.

Henderson, D. A., & Preston, R. (2009). Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of
Eradicating a Worldwide Killer. Prometheus Books.

Kluger, J. (2006). Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio. Berkley Books.

Miller, J., Broad, W., & Engelberg, S. (2002). Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret
War. Simon & Schuster.

Oshinsky, D. (2006). Polio: An American Story. Oxford University Press

Preston, R. (1995). The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus.
Anchor.

Preston, R. (2003). The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story. Fawcett.

Quammen, D. (2012). Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. W. W.
Norton & Company

Tayman, J. (2007). The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai. Scribner.

Games
Epidemic! Game, http://www.epidemicgame.org/index.html

Pandemic board game, http://zmangames.com/product-details.php?id=1246

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Pandemic 5 (online game), http://www.pandemic4.org/pandemic-5/ (also listed in Week

One materials)

Plague, http://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/22-plague-inc (also listed in Week One

materials)

Vax!, http://vax.herokuapp.com/ (also listed in Week One materials)

Movies
28 Days Later... (2002)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
And the Band Played On (1993)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Contagion (2011)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
How to Survive a Plague (2012)
The Normal Heart (2014)
Outbreak (1995)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Online Materials (Articles, Blogs, Podcasts, Videos & Websites)

Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases

Adalja, A. (2015). Tracking Zebra. Retrieved from http://www.trackingzebra.com/

Our Work. (2015). Retrieved from UPMC Center for Health Security:
http://www.upmchealthsecurity.org/our-work/index.html

Defining Epidemics and Pandemics

Martin, P., & Martin-Granel, E. (June 2006). 2500-year Evolution of the Term Epidemic.
Retrieved Emerging Infectious Diseases from
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/6/pdfs/05-1263.pdf

Mitchell, G. & McTigue, K. (Oct.-Nov. 2007). The US Obesity Epidemic: Metaphor, Method or
Madness. Retrieved Social Epistemology from
http://www.pitt.edu/~gordonm/JPubs/MitchellMcTigue2007b.pdf
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Morens, D. (Oct. 1, 2009). What is a Pandemic?. Retrieved Journal of Infectious Diseases

from http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/200/7/1018.full

Ebola Outbreak 2014-15

Burci, G., & Quirin, J. (Nov. 2014). Ebola. WHO and the United Nations: Convergence of Global
Public Health and International Peace and Security. Retrieved ASIL Insights from
http://www.asil.org/insights/volume/18/issue/25/ebola-who-and-united-nations-
convergence-global-public-health-and.

Lamontagne, F. (Sep. 2014). Doing Today’s Work Superbly Well -- Treating Ebola With
Current Tools. Retrieved New England Journal of Medicine from
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1411310.

Hodge, J. (Mar.-Apr. 2015). Law, Medicine and Public Health Preparedness: The Case of Ebola.
Retrieved Public Health Reports 1- 4 from
http://www.publichealthreports.org/userfiles/PHR130_2_TheCaseOfEbola.pdf

Price, P. Ebola and the Law in the United States: A Short Guide to Public Health Authority and
Practical Limits. Retrieved The Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection
from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2538187

Rutkow, L., & Vernick, J. (2011). The U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause, the Supreme Court,
and Public Health. Public Health Reports, 126(5), 750-753.

Environmental and Social factors

Brockmann, D., & Helbing, D. (Dec. 13, 2013). The Hidden Geometry of Complex. Retrieved
Network-Driven Contagion Phenomena from
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6164/1337.full

Quammen, D. (Oct 15, 2012). Where will the next pandemic come from? And how can we stop
it?. Retrieved Popular Science from http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-08/out-
wild

Robbins, J. (July 14, 2012). The Ecology of Disease. Retrieved New York Times from
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/sunday-review/the-ecology-of-disease.html

Influenza and SARS

Garrett, L. (Oct. 22, 2014). How to Shut Down A Country and Kill a Disease. Retrieved Foreign
Policy from
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/22/how_to_shut_down_a_country_and_ki
ll_a_disease_sars_china_ebola.
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Howard, J. (Feb. 27, 2015). Big-Data Project on 1918 Spanish Flu Reflects Key Role of
Humanists. Retrieved Chronicle of Higher Education from http://chronicle.com/article/Big-
Data-Project-on-1918-Flu/190457/

CDC Updated Preparedness and Response Framework for Influenza Pandemic. (Sep. 26, 2014).
Retrieved Morbidity and Mortality Report from
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr6306.pdf

WHO Pandemic Phase Descriptions and Main Actions by Phase. Retrieved World Health
Organization from
http://www2.paho.org/hq/dmdocuments/2009/aide_memoire_WHO_PandemicPhase_and
MainActions.pdf

Global Initiatives

Global Health Security Agenda. (2014). Retrieved GlobalHealth.gov from

http://www.globalhealth.gov/global-health-topics/global-health-security/ghsagenda.html

Global Polio Eradication Initiative. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.polioeradication.org

Typhoid Mary

The Most Dangerous Woman in America. (2015). Retrieved NOVA from

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/

The Most Horrible Seaside Vacation. (2015). Retrieved RadiLab from

http://www.radiolab.org/story/169882-typhoid-mary/

Cole, S. (November, 2011). How to Get to North Brother Island. Retrieved RadioLab from
http://www.radiolab.org/story/170476-how-get-north-brother-island/

Dark Matters. (2015). Retrieved Sci from http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/dark-

matters-twisted-but-true/

U.S. Law
U.S. Federal Law

United States Constitution

 Commerce Clause (Art. I, § 8, cl. 3)
 Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. I, § 8, cl. 18)
 General Welfare Clause (Art. I, § 8, cl. 1)

Public Health Service Act (Title 42, United States Code)

 Federal isolation and quarantine authority (42 USC §§ 264- 265, 42 CFR Parts 70
and 71)
 Role of U.S. Consular, Customs and Boarder Patrol, and Coast Guard (42 USC § 97)
 Special powers during wartime (42 USC § 266)
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Limitation of movement from foreign countries (8 USC § 1101 et seq., 42 CFR Part 34)

Executive Orders 13295, 13375 and 13674

Selected Federal Legal Authorities Pertinent to Public Health Emergencies, Prepared by the
Public Health Law Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Updated August
2014), http://www.cdc.gov/phlp/docs/ph-emergencies.pdf

U.S. State Law

Counterterrorism Planning, Preparedness, and Response Act (35 P.S. § 2140.101 et seq.)

U.S. Case Law

City of Newark v. J.S., 652 A.2d 265 (N.J. Super. Ct. Law Div. 1993)
Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824)
Greene v. Edwards, 263 S.E.2d 661 (W. Va. 1980)
Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)
Jew Ho v. Williamson, 103 F. 10 (C.C.N.D. Cal. 1900)
United States v. Comstock, 560 U.S. 126 (2010)

Vaccinations

Vaccines and Immunizations, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/

Vaccinations, Immunizations, and Biologicals, World Health Organization,

http://www.who.int/immunization/en/