Communicating Disease: Assessing Benjamin Rush’s Public Health Legacies at America’s 250th – A Conversation with Paul Offit - Tuesday, June 23 at American Philosophical Society in Old City, PhiladelphiaOld City

Communicating Disease: Assessing Benjamin Rush’s Public Health Legacies at America’s 250th – A Conversation with Paul Offit

Tuesday, June 23·Old City·American Philosophical Society

Communicating Disease: Assessing Benjamin Rush’s Public Health Legacies at America’s 250th – A Conversation with Paul Offit

Posted to Old City on May 17, 2026

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