COVIDCalls

Today I welcome Rebecca Adelman, creator of the Coronavirus Lost and Found Archive. Rebecca A. Adelman is professor and chair of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  She is the author of Beyond the Checkpoint: Visual Practices in America's Global War on Terror (2014) and Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War (2019), as well as co-edi...

Today is a discussion of Long COVID.  I welcome Ondine Sherwood a health advocate with the organization Long COVID SOS and Vicky van der Togt of the Zero COVID Alliance. Ondine Sherwood is an IT professional with an interest in health.  She caught what she assumes was Covid-19 at the end of March 2020 (never tested at the time) and although the symptoms were relatively mild she developed Long Covi...

Today I welcome public health researcher Steph Tan, and epidemiologist Anne Wyllie to COVIDCalls to discuss COVID-19 saliva tests. Orchid Allicock is a postdoctoral research associate at Yale School of Public Health with Drs. Nathan Grubaugh and Daniel Weinberger. Previously she received postdoctoral training at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, where she gained an interest...

Today I welcome journalists Michele Weldon and Marion Renault to discuss vaccination culture in the United States. Marion Renault is a health and science journalist born in France, bred in the Midwest, and now based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Popular Science and more. Michele Weldon is emerita faculty in journalism at Northwestern Univ...

Today I welcome David Nunez, director of technology at the MIT Museum. David Nuñez is the Director of Technology and Digital Strategy at the MIT Museum. He leads the Museum's digital transformation as it prepares to reboot in a new location in the Spring of 2022. David sits on the Board of Directors of the Museum Computer Network, an organization that seeks to digitally empower museums and museum...

Today I welcome Mallery Quetawki, Artist-in-Residence with the Community Environmental Health Program at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy. Mallery Quetawki is from the rural Pueblo of Zuni in western New Mexico.  She is the mother of two and shares residence in both Albuquerque and Zuni Pueblo. She received her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Art studio in the summer of 2009 from U...

Today I welcome Shereef Elnahal, President and CEO of University Hospital in Newark, NJ the principal academic hospital of Rutgers NJ Medical School. Shereef Elnahal is an American physician who has served in various health care leadership capacities in both the public and private sectors. He was the 21st Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health in the State of New Jersey, as a Cabinet...

Today I welcome David Wallace-Wells, journalist and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming to COVIDCalls. David Wallace-Wells is editor at large of New York magazine and the author of the international best-seller The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, which the New York Times called both "brilliant" and "the scariest book I've ever read," the Guardian called "an epoch-definin...

Today I welcome Tope Fadiran for a discussion of the history and myths related to vaccine hesitancy among Black Americans. Tope Fadiran is a commentator on the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality with religion and popular culture. She has a research background in the history of medicine and has contributed writing on race and gender in American evangelical Christianity and portrayals of B...

Today I welcome Pat and Bob Carroll to talk about Primary Immunodeficiency Disease and COVID-19. Pat Carroll is a registered respiratory therapist and a registered nurse. She has clinical experience in critical care, emergency/trauma nursing and home health care, and she has taught a variety of health professionals in clinical and classroom settings. Ten years ago, she was diagnosed with primary i...

Today I welcome disaster researcher and novelist Malka Older back to COVIDCalls to continue our discussions about disasters and time, language, governance, and disaster justice. Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and academic. Named Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for 2015, she has more a decade of experience in humanitarian aid a...

Today is a discussion of the life and work of legendary disaster researcher Dennis Mileti, who passed away due to COVID-19 in January.  I will be joined by Lori Peek and Amanda Ripley. Lori Peek – who has been a guest three previous times on COVID Calls! – is a professor in the Department of Sociology and director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies mar...

Today is a discussion of obituaries and writing about a year of loss with Dan Wakin of the NYTimes. Dan Wakin has been a journalist at The New York Times since 2000.  He currently is an editor on the Obituary News desk, where he has been editing the series "Those We've Lost" on Covid dead. Previously, he was deputy editorial director of NYT Global, a strategic team focused on international audienc...

Today is a discussion of obituaries and writing about a year of loss with Paige Cornwell of the Seattle Times. Paige Cornwell is a reporter at The Seattle Times. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is originally from Kansas City, Kan.

Today is a discussion of obituaries and writing about a year of loss and conflict with journalist Chris Megerian of the LA Times. Chris Megerian covers the White House from the Los Angeles Times’ D.C. bureau. He previously wrote about the Russia investigation, the 2016 presidential campaign and the 2015 United Nations summit on global warming in Paris. While based in Sacramento, he reported on Gov...

Today is a discussion of the Asian Diaspora in the COVID Crisis with Woojae Kim and Jinri Kim! Jinri Kim holds a Masters in Public Policy, specialised in Social Policy and Social Innovation, and is a Foreign research correspondent at Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), writing articles on France's social policy issues in the journal "Global Social Security Review" Jinri wrote a...

Today I welcome David Hassler to discuss the Global Vaccine Poem Project. David Hassler directs the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. He is the author or editor of nine books of poetry and nonfiction, including Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community; Speak a Powerful Magic: Ten Years of the Traveling Stanzas Poetry Project; and Red Kimono, Yellow Barn, for which he was awarded...

Today I welcome . . . DISABILITY JUSTICE AND COVID-19 Lakshmi Fjord, Elaine Gerber, Lenore Manderson. LAKSHMI FJORD, Ph. D. is an environmental justice anthropologist whose community participatory action research methods and evidence led to two historic legal precedents for environmental justice at the federal and Virginia state level. For the first time, a federal appeals court overturned the air...

Today I am glad to talk with sociologist Deborah Carr about older adults and the stress of COVID-19. Deborah Carr is professor and chair of the sociology department at Boston University. She has written more than 100 articles and book chapters on topics related to aging, health, and stress. Her recent books including Worried Sick: How Stress Hurts Us & How to Bounce Back, and Golden Years? Social...

Today I am glad to talk with Meera Choi and Hannah Tessler about their new research on the anxiety of being Asian American in the COVID-19 pandemic. Hannah Tessler is a PhD student at Yale University. She graduated from Hamilton College with a BA in sociology. Her research focuses on race/ethnicity, gender, education, and social interactions.  Meera Choi is a PhD student at Yale University. She re...

Today I am glad to vaccination expert Samantha Vanderslott from the Oxford Vaccine Group. Samantha Vanderslott is a University Research Lecturer at Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford. Her research is about people’s attitudes and behaviours towards vaccination. She draws on perspectives from sociology, history, anthropology, global health, and science and technology studies (STS). She is pa...

Today I am glad to bring writer Jon to #COVIDcalls for a discussion of his new book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of An American City, A Voice that Held it Together Jon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large with The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to numerous other radio shows and magazines, including This American Life, The Daily, 99% Invisible, California Sunday and Wired. He's frequen...

Today is a discussion of DEEP HISTORIES OF DISEASE IN THE COVID-19 ERA w/historian Rebecca Winer & physical therapy student Zoe Mendel.  This is a partnership call with the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University. Zoe Mendel is a senior at Villanova, participating in the health affiliations six-year Doctor of Physical Therapy program through Thomas Jefferson Univer...

Today is a discussion of face masks and public health in East Asia with my guests Hyungsub Choi and Jaehwan Hyun. Hyungsub Choi is associate professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Seoul National University of Science and Technology. He is interested in technological artifacts in modern Korean history. Together with Heewon Kim, Hyungsub worked on the masking behavior in Korea during the current...

Today my guest is historian of science and mathematics Michael Barany. Michael Barany is a historian of science and mathematics in the Science Technology and Innovation Studies subject group at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He completed his 2016 PhD in the history of science at Princeton University and was a member of the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows. His current research focuse...