COVIDCalls

EP #421 - 2.21.2022 - Danya Glabau Returns to COVIDCalls

Today I welcome medical anthropologist Danya Glabau, author of the forthcoming book Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care back to COVIDCalls.

Danya Glabau is an STS scholar and medical anthropologist, and Industry Assistant Professor and Director of the Science and Technology Studies program in the department of Technology, Culture, and Society at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Her research examines health activism, the political economy of biomedicine, and how human bodies become valuable data.

Her book Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care (University of Minnesota Press 2022), examines the reproductive politics of food allergy advocacy in the United States. Her second book project, Cyborg (MIT Press), is co-authored with Laura Forlano and will offer an introduction to feminist cyborg theory for scholarly, technical, and non-scholarly audiences.

EP #420 - 2.20.2022 - The Apocalyptic and the Pandemic Part II w/Chuck Strozier

Today I welcome historian and psychotherapist Chuck Strozier back to COVIDCalls.

Charles B. Strozier is Professor Emeritus of History, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York; and a practicing psychoanalyst.  He has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize (2001 and 2011) and was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize (2017).  He is the author of scores of articles on history and psychoanalysis and the author or editor of 13 books, including Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Until The Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses in 2011 (Columbia University Press).  

EP #419 - 02.18.2022 - Poetry in COVID Times with Kathleen Ossip

Today I welcome poet Kathleen Ossip, author of the recent book July, an NPR best book of 2021.

Kathleen Ossip’s most recent book of poems, July, was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2021. She is also the author of The Do-Over, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice; The Cold War, which was one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2011; The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and Cinephrastics, a chapbook of movie poems. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as The Washington Post, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, The Believer, Poetry, Paris Review, and many others. She has received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and she has been a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She teaches at the New School and at Princeton University. 

EP #418 - 2.18.2022 - COVID and Traffic Collisions

Today I welcome traffic collision experts Michal Grivna and Yasin Jemal Yasin to talk about new research on collisions and the pandemic.

Prof. Michal Grivna is a leading expert in injury control and safety promotion. Prof. Grivna´s research included topics related to childhood and adolescent injuries, school safety, traffic safety, baby walker injuries, child vehicle occupant protection, playground injuries, trauma registration and other public health issues. He is collaborating as a consultant with various public health and preventive medicine institutions in the United Arab Emirates and abroad, including Department of Health Abu Dhabi and Dubai Health Authority. He played a leading role in activities of the European Child Safety Alliance and implementation of WHO Safe Community Program. He is currently a mentor of young scientists in WHO Violence and Injury Prevention Mentorship Program.

Yasin Jemal Yasin holds BSc degree in Environmental Health from Haramaya University, Ethiopia, Masters Degree in Public Health (MPH) from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and MSc in Environmental Sciences from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, and a certificate in Clinical Research from Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA. He is also a faculty member in School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle Univeristy, Ethiopia. He is a 3^rd year Ph.D student in the Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), UAE. My Ph.D thesis title is "Risk factors affecting the patterns and severity of road traffic collisions: Global and UAE perspective."

EP #417 - 02.17.2022 - Crafting A COVID Visualization

Today is Feb. 17, 2022. I welcome Kristin Briney, author of Crafting a COVID Visualization: How I Processed Pandemic Anxiety and Grief with Yarn.

EP #416 - 02.17.2022 - American Violence and the Pandemic

It is Feb. 17, 2022. Today I welcome NYTimes staff editor Spencer Bokat-Lindell to discuss the surging murder rate in the United States amid the pandemic.

Spencer Bokat-Lindell is an editor and writer based in Brooklyn. He is currently a staff editor for The New York Times, where he writes Debatable, a newsletter that surveys the spectrum of opinion on some of the week's most pressing disagreements. Over the past two years, he has written about the ethics and politics of vaccine mandates, school reopenings, global vaccine inequities, the lab-leak hypothesis, and the responsibility of Big Tech companies in combating COVID misinformation, among other pandemic-related debates. Before joining The Times, Spencer served on the editorial staffs of Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, and Axios. He graduated from Yale in 2017.

EP #415 - 02.16.2022 - COVID Bereavement with Ashton Verdery: A Return Visit

Today I welcome Ashton Verdery back to COVIDCalls to talk about COVID bereavement and its long term impacts on children.

Ashton M. Verdery, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Computational and Data Science at the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on how changes in social and family networks influence health.

EP #414 - 02.15.2022 - Peter Chin-Hong

Today I welcome Dr. Peter Chin-Hong back to COVIDCalls.

Peter Chin-Hong is Associate Dean for Regional Campuses of the UCSF school of medicine. He is a medical educator who specializes in treating infectious diseases, particularly infections that develop in patients who have suppressed immune systems. He directs the immunocompromised host infectious diseases program at UCSF. His research focuses on donor derived infections in transplant recipients and molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases in patients with suppressed immune systems.

At UCSF he is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Yearlong Inquiry Program in the School of Medicine. He was the inaugural holder of the Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair for Innovation in Teaching.

EP #413 - 2.14.2022 -Disaster Recovery and Disaster Justice

Today I welcome Alessandra Jerolleman author of Disaster Recovery through the Lens of Justice.

Alessandra Jerolleman is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Doctoral Program in Emergency Management at Jacksonville State University’in Alabama.  She is a community resilience specialist and applied researcher at the Lowlander Center, as well as a co-founder of Hazard Resilience, a United States based consultancy providing leadership and expertise in disaster recovery, risk reduction, and hazard policy.   In 2019 she published a book titled: Disaster Recovery through the Lens of Justice, and recently released a follow up edited volume Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management.  Dr. Jerolleman is a subject matter expert in climate adaptation, hazard mitigation, disaster recovery, and resilience with a long history of working in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. 

EP #412 - 2.13.2022 - Public Health in Philadelphia w/Sharrelle Barber

Today I welcome social epidemiologist Sharrelle Barber back to COVIDCalls!

Dr. Sharrelle Barber is a social epidemiologist and scholar-activist in the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University.  Her research focuses on the intersection of "place, race, and health" and examines the role of structural racism in shaping health and racial/ethnic health inequities among Blacks in the United States and Brazil.

Dr. Barber currently serves as the Director of The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity, which launched November 11, 2021. 

Dr. Barber's empirical work and academic commentary has been published in leading academic journals including The Lancet Infectious Disease, the American Journal of Public Health, and Social Science and Medicine. Dr. Barber has also lectured and taught nationally and internationally about the impact of racism on health inequities and serves on the Group for Racial Equality (GRacE) International Advisory Board for The Lancet.