Dr. Joe and the Fight to Save America’s Children | Odd Salon RESILIENT 6/7
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 2020-06-10

Dr. S. Josephine Baker was a champion of preventative medicine and innovative public health solutions. She tackled outbreaks of typhoid and dysentery in slums, then took on the worst health crisis in New York: high infant mortality. She revealed to the nation that it was six times safer to be a soldier in the frontlines of France during WWI, than to be an American infant. Something had to change.

Odd Salon RESILIENT: Stories of triumph and perseverance, hope, support, and love from times of plague and pandemic.

Isolde Honore ~ Dr. Joe and the Fight to Save America’s Children 

Curated by Annetta Black and Tre Balchowsky

Live-streamed on May 26, 2020
Technical Producer: John Adams
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