Professor Opal writes op-ed with physician-father on history of epidemics in the United States

Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal and his father, Prof. Steven M. Opal (Alpert Medical School at Brown) have co-written op-ed for the LA Times on how American Presidents have dealt with epidemics or even triggered them in the past. The op-ed locates the current office holder in a larger historical context of leadership in times of crisis. The historical record is mixed, the two authors conclude, as some Presidents embraced all people as equally human while others chose ideology over the common good.