**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.**  

For much of human history, smallpox was a major cause of death and disability; among specific infections second only to tuberculosis, killing hundreds of millions of people even after the availability of a highly effective vaccine. But smallpox is gone; the only human disease to be eradicated! Join the Public Health Museum, located in Tewksbury, to review the history of smallpox from the early days of inoculation to the dawn of a vaccine, the introduction of effective disease control measures in Massachusetts, and the origins of the global efforts toward eradication and its successful completion. Similarities and connections with recent experiences of the coronavirus pandemic will be apparent.

This webinar will comprise of the following three brief presentations, followed by a Q&A period:

- Inoculation to Vaccination, Cotton Mather and Where He Got His Idea with David A. Paquette, MHSA, Retired, Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Arizona

- Smallpox, Vaccine and Public Health Innovations in Massachusetts with Alfred DeMaria, Jr., MD, President, Public Health Museum

- Global Eradication: How Did Smallpox Disappear? with Jason S. Weisfeld, M.D., M.P.H., Field Epidemiologist (Retired), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Smallpox Eradication Program

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Organized by the Public Health Museum. Held in collaboration with the Tewksbury Public Library.