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Peter Millican on pandemics

8 December 2020

Returning for its third series, the University of Oxford’s Futuremakers podcast follows Hertford’s Professor Peter Millican as he discovers some of the devastating pandemics from 1,600 years of human history.

Peter and his colleagues look at ten major outbreaks: from the 5th-century Plague of Athens to the West African Ebola outbreak, via the Black Death, Cholera, Smallpox and HIV/AIDS, and ask how these outbreaks have shaped society, what we may be able to learn from them today, and where we might be heading?

Find out more about each episode on the University’s research website. Download the podcast – and catch up with the previous two series – on your platform of choice:

This article has been adapted from the University of Oxford. Image: ‘The Triumph of Death’ by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1562-1563), oil on panel, Museo del Prado.