Peter Buxtun, a Jewish man working for the Public Health Service, stumbled upon the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the 1960s and became determined to expose the ethical violations and end the study.

In September 1918, during the Spanish Influenza outbreak, the Jewish newspaper Forverts documented poignant stories of individuals impacted by the pandemic, such as the tragic tale of George Abbot who died before marrying his sweetheart due to the flu.