The COVID-19 pandemic won't be our last&md ash\;because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also makes us human. Th at is the uncomfortable but all-too-timely message of \;The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics\, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs\, w hich travels through history and around the globe to examine how and why p andemics are an inescapable threat of our own making. Drawing on dozens of disciplines&mdash\;from medicine\, epidemiology\, and microbiology to ant hropology\, sociology\, ecology\, and neuroscience&mdash\;as well as a uni que expertise in public education about emerging infectious diseases\, bio logical anthropologist Sabrina Sholts identifies the human traits and tend encies that double as pandemic liabilities\, from the anatomy that defines us to the misperceptions that divide us.
\nWeaving together a wealt h of personal experiences\, scientific findings\, and historical stories\, Sholts brings dramatic and much-needed clarity to one of the most profoun d challenges we face as a species. Though the COVID-19 pandemic looms larg e in Sholts's account\, it is\, in fact\, just one of the many infectious disease events explored in \;The Human Disease. With its expa nsive\, evolutionary perspective\, the book explains how humanity will con tinue to face new pandemics because \;humans cause them\, by the ways that we are and the things that we do. By recognizing our risks\, Sholts suggests\, we can take actions to reduce them. When the next pande mic happens\, and how bad it becomes\, are largely within our highly capab le human hands&mdash\;and will be determined by what we do with our extrao rdinary human brains. A presentation you don&rsquo\;t want to miss\, regis ter now!
\nAbout the Author: \;Sabrina Sholts i s a biological anthropologist and Curator of Biological Anthropology at th e Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Her research ex plores intersections of human\, animal\, and environmental health in the p ast and present. She received her PhD in Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley in Integrative Biology an d at Stockholm University in Biophysics and Biochemistry. Sholts has publi shed widely in academic journals including \;American Journal of B iological Anthropology\, \;Environmental Health Perspectives< /em>\, \;JAMA\, PNAS\, \;Scientific Reports< /em>\, \;Proceedings of the Royal Society B\, and \;N ature Ecology &\; Evolution\, and written for popular audiences in \;Scientific American \;and \;Smithsonian Magazi ne. She was named as a World Economic Forum Young Scientist in 2019. In addition\, she was Lead Curator of the exhibition \;Outbreak: E pidemics in a Connected World \;at the NMNH \;(2018-2022) and a scientific advisor for the related exhibition \;É\;pid&ea cute\;mies: \;Prendre soin du vivant \;at the musé\;e d es Confluences in Lyon\, France \;(2024-2025).
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