title:
Ellen Leahy
creator:
Ellen Leahy; Leif Fredrickson
description:
Ellen Leahy discusses her role as the health officer and director of the Missoula City-County Health Department during the first part of the COVID pandemic. She discusses her long career in public health and how past experiences and training shaped her response to the COVID pandemic. She also discusses her work on the history of public health and pandemic diseases and how her research on these topics has shaped her approach to public health. She relates her perspective on how the pandemic emerged and changed over time. Leahy explains the role of a health officer and health department director and the way the department interacts with other government entities, and she details how policies and programs related to testing, tracing, lockdowns, masking and vaccines developed and changed over time in Missoula County.
publisher:
Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
contributor:
Leif Fredrickson
identifier:
2023_068
language:
English
rights:
February 8, 2023We grant and assign to Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana (Archives) as Project repository, non-exclusive rights of every kind pertaining to this interview, including, but not limited to, reproduction, distribution, preparation of derivative works, public performance, and display, whether or not such rights are now known, recognized or contemplated. This gift does not preclude any use that we ourselves may wish to make of the information in the recording and/or subsequent transcripts of such. Future uses may include, but are not limited to, the following: printed memoirs, written publications, radio and film and podcast productions, educational tools, and public performances. Many of these futures uses may be accessible through print, visual, electronic, or other available media, and the Internet, including Project and Archives online platforms.
created:
2022-02-02
date Submitted:
2023-02-08
type:
Sound; Text
