COVIDCalls

What are the psychological factors behind how individuals and organizations make evacuation/sheltering decisions during disasters? How are pets a source of comfort and resilience? Dr. Sarah DeYoung , an expert on applied social and community psychology and core faculty member at the Disaster Research Center at University of Delaware , discusses the connections between evacuations/shelter in place...

How can we understand disaster amidst the unknowns in the beginning of a crisis? How do journalists and academics approach information, disorganization, and uncertainty to further understanding during disaster events. Robinson Meyer , a staff writer for the Atlantic covering technology and climate change, and Dr. Kim Fortun , an anthropologist at University of California - Irvine and expert on env...

How should public health systems in the U.S. respond to COVID-19, and what lessons can we draw from the past and for the future?  Dr. Gigi Kwik Gronvall , a Senior Scholar at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security, joins to discuss the early national response to COVID-19 in the U.S. An expert on synthetic biology and biosecurity, Dr. Gronvall draws on her experience advising the Department of...

Host Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles introduces the COVIDCalls podcast.