COVIDCalls

Today is a discussion COVID-19 and mental health in Turkey with Dr. Cengiz Kılıç. Dr. Cengiz Kılıç graduated from Istanbul University Medical School in 1984, and did his residency training at Hacettepe University. He is currently professor of psychiatry, working full-time at the psychiatry department of Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara. As a member of the academic staff, he takes part...

Today is a discussion in partnership w/the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest of Villanova University, Documenting the Pandemic with Erica Hayes and Beaudry Allen Beaudry Rae Allen is the Digital and Preservation Archivist at Villanova University. Allen holds a Masters in Archives and Records Management from San Jose State University and a Masters in European History from Villanova U...

Today is a discussion in partnership w/the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest of Villanova University, with William Horne, KEERA Céire Kealty, and Fen Kennedy of the Bearing Witness: COVID-19 Oral History and the Public Good project. William Horne, Co-Founder and Editor of The Activist History Review, is an Arthur J. Ennis Postdoctoral Fellow at Villanova University who writes about...

Today is a discussion of partnership w/the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest of Villanova University, Merle Eisenberg of the The Infectious Historians Podcast. Merle Eisenberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland and received a PhD in history from Princeton University. He has published articles in the Pr...

Today is a discussion of partnership w/the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest of Villanova University, "The History of Plague - New Perspectives" with Monica Green and Tunahan Dumaz. Monica H. Green is an independent scholar specializing on the history of medicine in the Middle Ages. Although trained as a Europeanist, she has long recognized the intimate ties between Europe and the I...

Libraries and Librarians in the Pandemic with Melanie Meyers, Jaime Taylor, Emily Drabinsky and John Pollack. Emily Drabinski is interim chief librarian at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She took on this role effective March 15th. The library building closed on March 13th. Prior to joining the Graduate Center, Drabinski spent ten years at Long Island University, Brooklyn as a te...

Today is a discussion of partnership w/the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest of Villanova University, featuring Chrissy Lau and Preeti Sharma in a discussion of the Auntie Sewing Squad. Chrissy Yee Lau is an Assistant Professor of History at California State University Monterey Bay. She writes histories on race, gender, religion, and empire. She has published her research in the ant...

Today is a discussion of the opioid crisis and the pandemic with bioethicist Travis Rieder. Travis N. Rieder, PhD, is a bioethicist, philosopher and author, currently serving as Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program and a Research Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He also has secondary appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Health Policy & Manageme...

Today is a discussion of COVID-19 in South Africa and the Lockdown Diaries Project with Fiona Anciano. Fiona Anciano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is a qualitative researcher with an interest in urban governance, democratisation and civil society. She conducts research in informal settlements on urban democ...

Today is a discussion of virus evolution with biologist Justin Meyer. Justin Meyer is associate professor of biology at UC San Diuego.  He received his Ph. D. from Michigan State University and was a Systems Biology Departmental Fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he was awarded the James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellowship for Studying Complex Systems. He joined the faculty of Ecology Behavior...

Today is a discussion of Disinformation in the Pandemicwith returning COVIDCalls guest Kate Starbird. Kate Starbird is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington (UW). Kate’s research is situated within human-computer interaction and the emerging field of crisis informatics—the study of the how social media and other infor...

Today is a discussion of  Behavioral, Addiction and the Pandemic with Amanda Latimore. Amanda Latimore is a social epidemiologist that focuses on overdose and addiction policies, practices, and programs. Dr. Latimore is the Director of the Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (CARES) at American Institutes for Research and adjunct faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of P...

Today is a discussion of maternity care in the pandemic with Zaneta Marie Thayer. Dr. Zaneta Marie Thayer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She earned her PhD at Northwestern University and is the 2020 recipient of the Michael A. Little Early Career Award from the Human Biology Association. Her research addresses how early life environments, including those experience...

Today is the third of three COVIDCalls special episodes in partnership with two great research libraries: the American Philosophical Society and the Linda Hall Library.  These episodes will explore challenges and new approaches for research libraries and the patrons that use them in the time of COVID.  Today I welcome Nicole Schroeder and Andrew Seaton. Nicole Schroeder is a Ph. D. candidate at th...

Today is the second of three COVIDCalls special episodes in partnership with two great research libraries: the American Philosophical Society and the Linda Hall Library.  These episodes will explore challenges and new approaches for research libraries and the patrons that use them in the time of COVID.  Today I welcome Joanna Radin and Robin Wolfe Scheffler to the discussion. Joanna Radin is a his...

Today is the first of three COVIDCalls special episodes in partnership with two great research libraries: the American Philosophical Society and the Linda Hall Library.  These episodes will explore challenges and changes for research libraries and the scholars that use them in the time of COVID.  We will be especially interested to think about the ways that library and archival materials in the hi...

Today is a COVIDCalls discussion of COVID-19 vaccines, law, nationalism, and politics with Ana Santos Rutschman. Ana Santos Rutschman has been assistant professor at Saint Louis University School of Law since 2018. She focuses on topics related to health law, innovation in the life sciences, intellectual property, and law and technology. At SLU, she teaches FDA Law and Policy, the seminar Emerging...

Today is a COVIDCalls Congressional discussion w/Representative Brendan Boyle of the PA-2.  Following my discussion with Brendan Boyle I will talk with pandemic media expert Dr. Katie Foss. Dr. Katie Foss is a Media Studies professor in the School of Journalism & Strategic Media at Middle Tennessee University, where she teaches courses in media literacy, health communication, and gender studies. S...

Today is a COVIDCalls Public Health Discussion with COVIDCalls alumni guests James Dodd and Esther Chernak. Dr. Esther Chernak.  Esther  is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health, Drexel University 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...

On today's COVIDCall, a story and some news items on this International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Today is a COVIDCalls historians’ roundtable with Sandra Eder, Cindy Ermus, and Tiago Saraiva. Sandra Eder is an assistant professor in the history department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches U.S. gender history and the history of medicine. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, and race in medicine and science, clinical practices and patient records, and the scienc...

Today is a COVIDCalls history of public health and medicine session with Deborah Levine and Jacob Steere-Williams. Deborah Levine is a scholar in the areas of the history of medicine, health, patient experience, health insurance, and disease at Providence College. She regularly presents at national and international conferences. In addition, her work often appears in scholarly journals, and her ex...

Today I discuss Trump, Biden, and the Path Ahead w/Virginia Heffernan. Virginia Heffernan is an accomplished journalist and cultural critic—she is a regular contributor to The New York Times, as well as The Wall Street Journal , Mother Jones , and Politico .  She writes a regular column for Wired Magazine and the LA Times—and she is co-host of the Trumpcast on Slate.  She is also the author of Mag...

Today is a special Inauguration Day Memorial Episode. TODAY AT NOON Joseph R. Biden became the 46th President of the United States.  COVID-19 is certainly a global pandemic, with a story to be told of every nation, and across/beyond nations--but in the United States the suffering and loss of life is bound up with the failures of the Trump Administration, failures of Donald Trump himself, personall...

Today we discuss Y2K, COVID-19, and the CRISIS OF EXPERTISE with historian Zachary Loeb. Zachary Loeb is a PhD candidate in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He works at the intersection of the history of technology and the history of disasters. Zachary's research explores the belief that humanity's romance with techno-science will lead to the end of the world...