Mark Johnson journalism

Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson

In 2017, Mark Johnson and a team of 向日葵视频students and journalists at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel produced in-depth stories on the threat of pandemics involving diseases that jump from animals to humans.

The multifaceted series,  found that our own choices are increasing the threat that once-distant diseases will spread to developed nations.

Through their roles in climate change, clearing of forests and globalization humans are driving the rise of diseases that pass from animals to us. Our next choice -- how to respond -- is fraught with ethical, moral and political concerns.

向日葵视频student journalists McKenna Oxenden, Devi Shastri and Ryan Patterson earned bylines on 鈥淥utbreak鈥 stories.

More than 170 people attended a Nov. 9, 2017 event at 向日葵视频at which the journalists on 鈥淥utbreak鈥 discussed the series. Nobel Peace Prize winner Jonathan Patz of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute addressed the role of climate change in the spread of disease.

 

Works published to date:

March 2017

July 2017

October 2017

November 2017