COVIDCalls

EP #154 - 10.22.2020 - HIV/AIDS and COVID-19

Today we will talk about COVID-19, HIV+AIDS with Dave Wessner.

A Professor of Biology at Davidson College, David Wessner teaches introductory biology and courses on microbiology and HIV/AIDS. He co-authored Microbiology, a textbook for undergraduate biology majors, and The Cartoon Guide to Biology. He also is a contributor to Forbes.com, writing articles on COVID-19. Prior to joining the faculty at Davidson, David conducted research on coronaviruses at the Navy Medical Center in Washington, DC. He earned his PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Harvard University and his BA in Biology from Franklin and Marshall College.

EP #153 - 10.21.2020 - Data and the Pandemic

Today we will talk about data visualization and the pandemic with Emily Bowe, Shannon Mattern, and Erin Simmons.

Emily Bowe is a graduate student in the Design and Urban Ecologies program at Parsons School of Design at The New School. She is a cartographer with an academic background in environmental science and is interested in counter-mapping and critical data studies. Her work focuses on urban systems, governance, planning & design, and digital media.

Shannon Mattern is Professor at The New School for Social Research. Her writing and teaching focus on media architectures and infrastructures and spatial epistemologies. She has written books about libraries, maps, and the history of urban intelligence, and she contributes a column about urban data and mediated spaces to Places Journal. You can find her at wordsinspace.net. 

Erin Simmons is a PhD Student in anthropology at The New School for Social Research. Her work touches on international development, poverty indices, data visualization, and monumentality. Outside of academia, Erin has worked in the development sector, cultural heritage management, and as a live performance producer in London and New York City.

EP#152 - 10.20.2020 - Student Journalists covering the Pandemic

Today we will talk about journalism on campus in the pandemic with Jacob deCastro and Elizabeth Lawrence.

Jacob deCastro is a senior journalism student at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student, an independent student newspaper covering IU and Bloomington. Prior to this role, he served as a managing editor of digital, design editor and reporter.

Elizabeth Lawrence is a senior at the University of Michigan and editor in chief of The Michigan Daily, an independent student newspaper covering the University and Ann Arbor. She started her role in January of 2020 and will finish in December. She oversees the paper's coverage of COVID-19 and manages its remote operations." 

 

EP #151 - 10.19.2020 - COVID-19, Food, and Agriculture

Today we will talk about agriculture, farmworkers, and COVID-19 with Jayson Lusk and Alexis Guild.

Alexis Guild has been with Farmworker Justice since 2011. In her role as Director of Health Policy and Programs, she coordinates FJ’s health promotion projects and health policy advocacy. She works with advocacy organizations, community/migrant health centers, farmworker community-based organizations, and legal services organizations to ensure health care access for farmworkers and their families across the United States. Alexis co-authored “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Implementation and Impact of the Affordable Care Act in U.S. Farmworker Communities” published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2016); and “The Neighbors who Feed Us: Farmworkers and Government Policy – Challenges and Solutions” published in the Harvard Law and Policy Review (2018).

Jayson Lusk is a food and agricultural economist who studies what we eat and why we eat it. Since 2000, I’ve published more than 240 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on a wide assortment of topics ranging from the economics of animal welfare to consumer preferences for genetically modified food to the impacts of new technologies and policies on livestock and meat markets to analyzing the merits of new survey and experimental approaches eliciting consumer preferences. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor and Head of the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University.  He received a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University in 2000. 

EP #150 - 10.16.2020 - Brothers and Sisters in the Pandemic

Today we will talk about siblings during the pandemic, with my special guests to mark this 150^th episode: my brothers and sisters!

EP #149 - 10.15.2020 - Inside the Corona Virus Task Force with Olivia Troye

Today we will talk about the Coronavirus Task Force with Olivia Troye.

Olivia Troye is a risk management and national security executive with twenty years of government service and private sector experience, most recently serving as the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor to Vice President Pence at the White House, where she focused on tracking imminent and evolving domestic and international security threats, natural disaster events, and managing complex policy decisions and responses to large scale crisis events facing the American people. Prior to this role, she served in the Office Of Intelligence & Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security as Chief of Strategy, Policy & Plans. Olivia has also served on the leadership staffs in the Department of Defense, the National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Energy, as well as in the private sector for organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and General Dynamics Information Technology. Fluent in Spanish and hailing from El Paso, Texas, she is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs, and the Naval Postgraduate School.

EP #148 - 10.14.2020 - Children, Aids, and COVID-19

Today we will discuss the history of pediatric AIDS, and talk about lessons from that history that help us see the COVID-19 pandemic more clearly.

Jason M Chernesky EARNED HIS PhD in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies the histories of health care, children's health, public health, and environmental history in the twentieth-century United States.  His dissertation, “The Littlest Victims”: Pediatric AIDS and the Urban Ecology of Health in the Late Twentieth-Century United States, explores what happens when a disease associated with the taboo behavior of adults begins affecting infants and children.  Pediatric AIDS was a disease of poverty, which became closely associated with the multiple problems of the inner city – an urban geography that, for many Americans, was situated "elsewhere." Jason’s other scholarly interests include urban history, public history, and cultural history.  

Dr. Stephen Pemberton is faculty in History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Rutgers University – Newark.  He is a historian of medicine, disease and health with expertise in United States history and the history and sociology of science. His research and teaching is also informed by his training in philosophy and his engagements with medical humanities scholarship and health policy debates over the past twenty-five years. His book: The Bleeding Disease: Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress (JHU 2011).

Janet golden, PhD is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University. She specializes in the history of medicine, history, childhood, women's history, and American social history. She's the author, editor of numerous books and articles, including babies made us modern how infants brought Americans into the 20th century out with Cambridge press Message in a Bottle making a fetal alcohol syndrome with Harvard press. She co edits the critical issues in health and medicine series at Rutgers University Press and is the recipient of many grants and fellowships, including those awarded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Commonwealth Fund and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

 

EP #147 - 10.13.2020 - How do we assess the social impact of COVID-19?

EP #146 - 10.12.2020 - Small Business and COVID-19

Today we will discuss the challenges of small businesses during the pandemic with Gregg Bishop, Jabari Jones, Zachary Cox.

Gregg Bishop is currently the Interim Executive Director of Coro New York. He is tasked with leading a civic leadership organization that believes meaningful change comes from collaboration: people in business and communities, schools and unions, government and nonprofits, working together to find creative solutions and strengthen our democracy.

Prior to this role, Bishop served as the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) where he was charged with running a dynamic City agency focused on equity of opportunity, that leads to economic self-sufficiency and mobility for New York City's diverse communities.

Zachary Cox is a Ph.D. student in the Disaster Science and Management program at the University of Delaware where he also works as a Research Assistant. He holds a Master of Arts in Disaster and Emergency Management from Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada. 

An experienced disaster practitioner, Zac has worked as a Recovery Management Consultant with IBM and volunteered with the Red Cross’ Personal Disaster Assistance Response Team. He is currently conducting dissertation fieldwork to understand how small businesses are engaging in technical continuity, internal reflection, and external adaptation to navigate COVID-19. 

Jabari K. Jones was recognized to lead the West Philadelphia Corridor Collaborative in 2015.  Upon assuming leadership, Jones laid out a broad vision for connecting the fragmented, hyperlocal business corridors in West Philly into one business community, one ecosystem of support for entrepreneurs.

Under Jones, the Collaborative has become the largest business association in West Philadelphia providing hundreds of hours of free business training, developing private-public partnerships with major companies like Amtrak, Automatic, and Exelon, and building international trade and business relationships with representatives and companies in the African Union, Scotland, and People’s Republic of China.

EP #145 - 10.9.2020 - Week of Mourning Memorial Episode

Today we will discuss lives cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the Week of Mourning.  This was inspired by my COVIDCalls discussion with Kristin Urquiza and her Marked by COVID, with Christine Keeves.