Epidemics, Pandemics, and Plagues

Lisa A. Mix is the Director of University Archives & Special Collections at California State University, Fullerton. She has worked in archives and historical collections at several academic medical centers, including Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, the University of California San Francisco, and New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. At UCSF she led efforts to document the history of the AIDS epidemic. She has published and presented widely on archives and on history of the health sciences. She was the 2020 recipient of the Lisabeth M. Holloway Award from Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences, and is Vice President of the Society of California Archivists.

Judy C. Stribling is a professional researcher, published author, and editor. She formed and ran a company that provided library services to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from1989- 1998. She then worked as the assistant director of Clinical Services at the Samuel J. Wood Library & C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the editor of The Clinical Medical Librarian’s Handbook.