Faculty & Staff: Howard Markel: In the News

As a cogent and frequent contibutor to many of today's major media, Dr. Markel is able to draw on medical and socio-historical facts to provide insights into topics as diverse as childhood immunizations, medical education, and how likely it will be that a group will be scapegoated in the next national or global epidemic.

Here is a snapshot of Dr. Markel's recent media placements.

• August 2007: U-M study supports value of quarantines to lessen effects of flu pandemics

• July 2007: Howard Markel in New York Times

• June 2007: Dr. Markel online at Washington Post

• May 2007: Markel now a JAMA Contributing Writer

• June 2004: Atlantic On Line: "The Heart of the Matter: Is Dick Cheney physically a good risk as Vice President? Seven cardiologists weigh in." By Howard Markel.

• May 2004: Dr. Markel was interviewed in numerous media around the country on his latest book, When Germs Travel - Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America Since 1900 and the Fears They Have Unleashed (Pantheon Books, 2004).

• May 13, 2004: New England Journal of Medicine. "I Swear by Apollo— On Taking the Hippocratic Oath." By Howard Markel.

• April 20, 2004: New York Times: Book Review: "The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat." By Howard Markel.

• March 28, 2004: New York Times: Book Review: "Pandora's Baby: Life in a Bottle." By Howard Markel.

• March 16, 2004: New York Times: Essay: "When Big Brother Invades the Examining Room." By Howard Markel.

• February 8, 2004: Washington Post: Book Review: "Lethal Contact, A chronicle of the 20th century's greatest microbe war." By Howard Markel.

• February 2, 2004: Voice of America: "Chechen Doctor Is Nearly Killed for Upholding Hippocratic Oath." By Howard Markel.

• December 28, 2003: Interview with Donald G. McNeil Jr. New York Times News Service: "Next generation of diseases in hiding, somewhere."

• November 25, 2003: New York Times: "H.I.V. Secrecy Is Proving Deadly." By Howard Markel