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Applications for Pandemics Course Spring 2025 Now Open

SMU epidemiologist Dr. Eric G. Bing offers an undergraduate course focused on international diseases and strategies to combat them. Pandemics! The Science of Disease Spread, Prevention, and Control (APSM/ANTH/MNO 4344), in Spring 2025, will equip SMU students with the essential tools to understand the various factors influencing disease spread and the ways local and global communities can address these challenges effectively.

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2023 Battle to Save Lives, a Global and Public Health Case Competition

The eighth annual Battle to Save Lives case competition was presented by students in Dr. Eric G. Bing’s Pandemics! The Science of Disease Spread, Prevention, and Control course.

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Students Prepare for the Eighth Battle to Save Lives Case Competition

For the eighth Battle to Save Lives case competition, students in Dr. Eric G. Bing’s Pandemics course are presenting strategies to enhance user safety on the Katy Trail.

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SMU Students Debate Solutions to Reduce Firearm Suicides

Undergraduate students in a public health course at SMU honed their persuasive speaking abilities in a formal debate on reducing firearm suicide. 

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Applications for Pandemics Course in Spring 2023 Now Open

In light of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, SMU epidemiologist Dr. Eric G. Bing teaches an undergraduate course focused solely on international diseases and how we can combat them. Pandemics! The Science of Disease Spread, Prevention, and Control (APSM/ANTH/MNO 4344), in Spring 2023, will give SMU students the basic tools they need to understand the many factors that drive disease spread and how local and global communities can combat it.   

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SMU Students Debate Policy Solutions to Firearm Suicide

Undergraduate students in a new public health course at SMU are honing their persuasive speaking abilities in a series of formal debates about ongoing public health issues. 

Judges and two teams from the first debate in the Pandemics class
Judges and two of the teams participating in a debate on policies to reduce firearm suicide.
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Undergraduate Education

Applications for Pandemics Course at SMU Now Open

In light of the era-defining COVID-19 pandemic, SMU epidemiologist Dr. Eric G. Bing has created a new undergraduate course focused solely on international diseases and how we can combat them. Pandemics! The Science of Disease Spread, Prevention, and Control (APSM/ANTH/MNO 4344), which kicks off in Spring 2021, will give SMU students the basic tools they need to understand the many factors that drive disease spread and how local and global communities can combat it.