S2E2 / Do You Know Dutta?

Published: Aug. 1, 2023, 9 a.m.

Who gets credit for wiping smallpox from the planet? American men have been widely recognized while the contributions of South Asian public health workers have been less celebrated. Episode 2 of the \u201cEradicating Smallpox\u201d podcast tells the story of Mahendra Dutta, an Indian public health leader, whose political savvy helped usher in a transformative approach to finding and containing smallpox cases.