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A Visit with the UCLA Art & Global Health Center

by Mary Brophy Marcus

A creative director and his team meld public health and art with communities around the globe

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COVID-19 street art in Navi Mumbai, India, on March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

The Art of a Pandemic

by Mary Brophy Marcus

COVID-19 street art from around the world

Attitudes toward leprosy are represented in this watercolor commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome around 1912 from Richard Cooper, a graphic artist known for his advertisements for the London Underground. Painting shows people scrambling to get away from a leper who strolls by, ringing a bell. In their haste, the crowd has left an infant on the roadside. CC-BY 4.0 from Wellcome Collection.

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“Less a Leper Than I Have Been”

by Christopher Lee Manes

Book of documentary poetry recalls Louisiana's Carville Hospital and early 20th century experience of leprosy in America