Dr. Carrie Foote, and students from her School of Liberal Arts Sociology HIV and Society Class, welcomed Dr. William Cooke (Family Foundations Medicine) to IU Indianapolis on November 11 ’21 where he shared his and the towns’ experiences, chronicled in his recently published book, Canary in the Coal Mine: A Forgotten Rural Town, a Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the People, when there was a community outbreak of over 200 cases of HIV among people who inject drugs in 2015.
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Carrie E. Foote is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, IU School of Liberal Arts at IU Indianapolis