Historical Background of Past Pandemics and the evolution of Health Policies – A New Historiographic Approach Subham Kharel, Doctoral Student, Department of Planning and Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Snowden (2019) depicted how pandemic outbreaks have changed politics, destroyed uprisings, and entrenched racial and economic inequalities. Similarly, pandemics have influenced the path of religion, science, and health policy over several decades. The goal of this study is to use a unique Historiographic framework to chronicle the history of pandemics. While analyzing historical contexts, historiography has rarely used mixed-method and quantitative techniques. The study aims to establish a new way for performing Historiographic Review utilizing mixed method and quantitative research approaches. The study's findings provide insight into the confluence of religion, politics, socioeconomic dynamics, science, and policymaking throughout previous pandemics. The research outcomes can inform future policy choices about pandemics and epidemics. Subham Kharel, Doctoral Student, Department of Planning and Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Mr. Subham Kharel is a 2nd-year doctoral scholar at the University of Texas at Arlington. Over the years, he has actively been involved in urban and regional planning research using Remote Sensing and GIS applications, qualitative research, and quantitative research techniques. Before joining the Ph.D. program, he worked with several Indian scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization, Bengaluru. During his tenure at the institute, he has contributed to the understanding of traffic flow, transportation systems, sanitation studies, object-oriented image analysis, property-tax management systems, archaeological mapping, and urban/regional planning. Currently, he is involved in research related to social divide, slum dwellers, rich-poor divide theories, learning management systems, policymaking theories, and pandemics, and aims to lessen this gap through his research. In this presentation, he will help outline the history of pandemics using mixed methods techniques of analyzing literature reviews. Presentation Information Long COVID—A View from the Trenches Jose Torradas, MD, FACEP, Director, Unidos Contra COVID Presentation about the complex journey ahead with regards to Long COVID from the perspective of a physician on the front lines in Philadelphia who has been working exclusively in underserved communities. Jose Torradas, MD, FACEP, Director, Unidos Contra COVID Dr Jose Torradas is a board certified ER doctor and the medical director of Medicos Unidos, an organization serving Southeastern Pennsylvania. Their first initiative, Unidos Contra COVID, is a grassroots effort of bilingual health professionals and other volunteers that were inspired by the Black Doctor's COVID19 Consortium. The group has held dozens of small community events and has vaccinated over 2,000 mostly undocumented and uninsured individuals throughout the Delaware Valley. He is a national spokesperson for the National Hispanic Medical Association and American College of Emergency Physicians and is a regular contributor for Telemundo62/NBC10 and Univision65 in Philadelphia.
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