COVIDCalls

EP #113 - 8.26.2020 The COVID-19 schoolyear and Special Education

Today we will talk about special education and COVID-19 with Dr. Simon Tan and journalist Joy Diaz.

Texas Standard reporter Joy Diaz has amassed a lengthy and highly recognized body of work in public media reporting. Prior to joining Texas Standard, Joy was a reporter with Austin NPR station KUT on and off since 2005. There, she covered city news and politics, education, healthcare and immigration.
Originally from Mexico, Joy moved to the U.S. in 1998 when her husband Luis was transferred from his job in Mexico City to Virginia. While there, Joy worked for Roanoke NPR station WVTF.

Joy speaks English and Spanish (which is a plus in a state like Texas). She graduated from Universidad de Cuautitlán Izcalli in Mexico City with a degree in Journalism. In 2008 she took a break to devote herself to her two young children, before returning to the KUT studios. She loves reading, painting and spending time engaging with the community.

Simon Tan is a clinical neuropsychologist and Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, CA specializing in the evaluation and diagnosis of geriatric populations with dementia associated disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and stroke and movement disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and ALS.  He sees patients with psychiatric disturbances such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and somatization disorders.  Outside of Stanford, he does teaching and supervision at a number of local graduate schools with programs in Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology.  In his private practice, he sees adolescents and adults with neurodevelopmental disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disorder, and autism spectrum disorder.  

EP #112 - 8.25.2020 Fires and Hurricanes in Pandemic Times

Today we discuss how Fires and Hurricanes intersect with the pandemic.

EP #111 - 8.24.2020 - The COVID-19 Schoolyear - Student Perspectives

Today we start a series of COVIDCalls on various aspects of education at this time—today a discussion of the upcoming school year from the perspective of high school and college students with Madeline Ladd, Afrah Howlader, and Shivani Patel.

Madeline Ladd is a rising high school senior at Villa Maria Academy in Malvern, PA. She has been a competitive swimmer for most of her life and is supposed to be a captain this year for Villa’s swim team. Madeline is also the editor for the school newspaper, the Vice President of the National Honor Society, and a member of the Spanish Honor Society. She is currently in the process of applying to colleges.

Afrah Howlader is a senior at Drexel University studying public health with intersecting interests in international development, disaster management, and labor migration. She is currently a co-op intern at Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS) and will be interning with the Director of Refugee Programming and Planning at HIAS Pennsylvania in the fall.

Shivani Patel is a second-year student at Drexel University studying Finance and Economics. She is also a production assistant here at COVID Calls, helping with auditing transcripts and connecting with guests. She is also a representative on Drexel’s Student Government, working to voice the concerns of the student body to administration. 

EP #110 - 8.21.2020 The Democratic Convention and the Pandemic

Today, a discussion of the Democratic national Convention and COVID-19 with Adderson Francois and Samantha Montano.

Professor Aderson Francois is the director of the Civil Rights Voting Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Professor Francois directed the Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law, where he also taught Constitutional Law, Federal Civil Rights, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence. Professor Francois received his J.D. from New York University School and clerked for the late Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 2008, the Transition Team of President Barack Obama appointed Professor Francois Lead Agency Reviewer for the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Samantha Montano has a doctorate in emergency management from North Dakota State University. She is currently an assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. She writes a free monthly disaster newsletter that you can sign up for on her website: http://disaster-ology.com. Her forthcoming book about disasters and climate change will be published by Park Row Books next summer.

EP #109 - "The Great Influenza and COVID-19" with John Barry

Today, a discussion with historian John Barry!

John M. Barry is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose books have won multiple awards. The National Academies of Sciences named his 2004 book The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history, a study of the 1918 pandemic, the year's outstanding book on science or medicine. His earlier book Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians for the year's best book of American history and in 2005 the New York Public Library named it one of the 50 best books in the preceding 50 years, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In 2006 he became the only non-scientist ever to give the National Academies Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture, a lecture which honors contributions to water-related science, and he was the only non-scientist on a federal government Infectious Disease Board of Experts. His latest book is Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the New England Society Book Award. 

EP #108 - Family in the Time of COVID-19

Today, a discussion of stresses on the family in COVID-19 with Dana Greene, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, and Christine Gibb.

Gonzalo Bacigalupe is a Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and leads the Citizen Education and Governance Team at the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN), in Santiago, Chile.  He is also an artist, and his work has been showcased at the 2018 exhibition: Liminal Territory and the Cartographies of Bodies and Territories January of 2019 at the PUC Innovation Center, the UC Campus San Joaquín Library, and the Casa Central Hall. 

CHRISTINE GIBB is an Assistant professor in School of International Development and Global Studies and Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa

Gibb works on environmental migration, especially the experiences and mobilities of survivors following natural hazards like typhoons, and the formal and informal governance of people's mobility. Regional focus is Southeast Asia.

For my COVID-19 work, I'm working with a team of researchers studying the pandemic experiences and mobilities of children and seniors (older adults) in parts of Canada and the USA.

Dana M. Greene, Ph.D. is currently an Independent Researcher on vulnerable populations to disaster, with ties to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill following 20+ years of teaching courses on disasters, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, social theory, genocide studies, and Judaic studies.

She is leading the CONVERGE Redefining Family during COVID-19 Working Group with Dr. Jessica Pardee at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

I usually work on the social vulnerability to disasters, including race, social class, gender and sexual orientation in both natural and technological disasters. In addition to my work on several projects that are unrelated to the pandemic, I am currently working on multiple projects on COVID-19 projects including one with Marcilyn Cianfarani that focuses on the lived realities of individuals living with chronic illnesses and disabilities in North America during COVID-19 pandemic.

 

 

EP #107 - Public Health Update+COVID-19 in Italy Update

Today, a public health update with Esther Chernak, and a discussion of COVID-19 in Italy with Giuseppe Forino.

Dr. Esther Chernak.  Esther is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, and has a position in the Drexel University College of Medicine. She is the director of the Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication at Drexel.

Prior to joining the Drexel faculty in 2010, Dr. Chernak worked at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health for over 25 years.

 

Dr Giuseppe Forino is Senior Research Associate at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK. 

Giuseppe is Italian and is a human geographer by background, working at the intersection of society and disaster risk management, including disaster risk and response, climate change adaptation, socioeconomic impact assessment, community action, policy and governance dimensions. His areas of expertise are Italy, and Australia, with a recent interest for Ecuador and Vietnam. Giuseppe edited the book "Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters: Trends in Theory and Practice" (Routledge, 2018) with Lina Calandra and Sara Bonati.

 

EP #106 - Field Science in the Pandemic w/Ken Lacovara & Isabel Behncke Izquierdo

EP #105 - Asian-Americans and COVID-19

Today, a discussion of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and COVID-19 with Vivian Shaw and Susanna Park.

Vivian Shaw (Lead Researcher, Co-Principal Investigator) is a researcher, and educator, from New York. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a College Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She teaches on Asian American culture and society, environmental inequality, social movements, and qualitative methods. She is completing a book about how the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster laid the political groundwork for the emergence of anti-discrimination social movement networks.

Susanna Park is a PhD candidate in global health at Oregon State University. She is a mixed-methods researcher interested in areas of global health policy, ethics, disparities, and community-based research. Outside of academia, she is co-founder/host of a global health science communication podcast, Global Caveat, and has written about traveling while Asian. You can find out more about her involvements on her website.

EP #104 - Epidemiology, Ethics, and the Pandemic

Today, a discussion of ethics, epidemiology, and COVID-19 with Daniel Goldberg and Ashley Holub.

Daniel S. Goldberg is trained as an attorney, a historian of medicine, and a public health ethicist.  His current research agenda in law, policy, and bioethics focuses on: the social determinants of health, public health policy and chronic illness, health inequities, and stigma. In addition, he maintains an active research program in the history of medicine, and focuses primarily on two topics in 19th century America: the history of medical imaging (especially X-rays) and the history of pain without lesion.

Dr. Ashley Holub recently graduated with a PhD in epidemiology and has worked in emergency medicine, pediatrics and mental health. She currently a fellow in medical devices and real world analytics and has an interest in scientific communication.