Jason Kliot
Director
The Invisible Shield (2024)
Season 1
This four-part documentary series, reveals a little-known truth: that public health saved your life today and you probably don’t even know it. But while public health makes modern life possible, the work itself is often underfunded, undervalued, and misunderstood.
Released March 26, 2024
Episode 54 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.public-health, imdb.american-history, imdb.global-health, imdb.covid-19, mdblist.has-trailer
Watch Providers: KQED
Production Companies: RadicalMedia
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Old Playbook
History repeats itself. It’s not the first time the world has had to deal with a pandemic, and the push highlights how the public health sector had to go back to work.
March 26, 2024, midnight
S1E2 - Follow the Data
Data has been an essential public health tool since at least the seventeenth century. Helping the world understand and mitigate the spread of disease, data has helped us make sense of the threats to our collective health.
April 9, 2024, midnight
S1E3 - Inoculation & Inequity
Public health officials face disinformation, skepticism of science, and distrust in government as they begin vaccinating the public against COVID. Historical injustices and inequities lead to apprehension, forcing public health to refine its approach.
April 18, 2024, midnight
S1E4 - The New Playbook
With all the challenges the public health sector faces, and life expectancy declining, how will a committed next generation of public health workers going overcome these obstacles?
April 25, 2024, midnight
Network: PBS
Episode Runtime: 54 min.
Season Runtime: 216 min.
Released: March 26, 2024
Last Air Date: April 25, 2024, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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