COVIDCalls

Today we will talk about COVID-19, HIV+AIDS with Dave Wessner. A Professor of Biology at Davidson College, David Wessner teaches introductory biology and courses on microbiology and HIV/AIDS. He co-authored Microbiology, a textbook for undergraduate biology majors, and The Cartoon Guide to Biology. He also is a contributor to Forbes.com, writing articles on COVID-19. Prior to joining the faculty a...

Today we will talk about data visualization and the pandemic with Emily Bowe, Shannon Mattern, and Erin Simmons. Emily Bowe is a graduate student in the Design and Urban Ecologies program at Parsons School of Design at The New School. She is a cartographer with an academic background in environmental science and is interested in counter-mapping and critical data studies. Her work focuses on urban...

Today we will talk about journalism on campus in the pandemic with Jacob deCastro and Elizabeth Lawrence. Jacob deCastro is a senior journalism student at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student, an independent student newspaper covering IU and Bloomington. Prior to this role, he served as a managing editor of digital, design editor and reporter. Eliz...

Today we will talk about agriculture, farmworkers, and COVID-19 with Jayson Lusk and Alexis Guild. Alexis Guild has been with Farmworker Justice since 2011. In her role as Director of Health Policy and Programs, she coordinates FJ’s health promotion projects and health policy advocacy. She works with advocacy organizations, community/migrant health centers, farmworker community-based organizations...

Today we will talk about siblings during the pandemic, with my special guests to mark this 150th episode: my brothers and sisters!

Today we will talk about the Coronavirus Task Force with Olivia Troye. Olivia Troye is a risk management and national security executive with twenty years of government service and private sector experience, most recently serving as the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor to Vice President Pence at the White House, where she focused on tracking imminent and evolving domestic and interna...

Today we will discuss the history of pediatric AIDS, and talk about lessons from that history that help us see the COVID-19 pandemic more clearly. Jason M Chernesky EARNED HIS PhD in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies the histories of health care, children's health, public health, and environmental history in the twentieth-century United States.  His...

Today we will discuss the challenges of small businesses during the pandemic with Gregg Bishop, Jabari Jones, Zachary Cox. Gregg Bishop is currently the Interim Executive Director of Coro New York. He is tasked with leading a civic leadership organization that believes meaningful change comes from collaboration: people in business and communities, schools and unions, government and nonprofits, wor...

Today we will discuss lives cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the Week of Mourning.  This was inspired by my COVIDCalls discussion with Kristin Urquiza and her Marked by COVID, with Christine Keeves.

Today we will discuss fire and the pandemic with historian Stephen Pyne. Steve Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. He has been at ASU since 1985.  In 1986 he joined the charter faculty at ASU West, where he remained for 10 years. He transferred to the School of Life Sciences in 1999. He has published 35 books, most of them dealing with fire, but others on Antarctica, the Gra...

Today we will discuss writing cultural history in the pandemic with Rebecca Onion, staff writer at Slate. Rebecca Onion writes about culture, history, and childhood for magazines, newspapers, and the Internet. She is currently a staff writer for Slate.com . She has also written for Aeon Magazine, the Boston Globe’s Ideas section, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlantic‘s website, Topic Magazin...

Today we will discuss Comedy in the age of COVID-19 with Kurt Braunohler. Kurt Braunohler is a comedian, actor, and writer who once crowdfunded a skywriter to write "How Do I Land" in the sky above LA.He's been seen in movies The Big Sick and Long Shot, as well as Fox's Bob's Burgers, Showtime's Black Monday, and Netflix's Lady Dynamite. He hosts a strange news podcast, BANANAS, as well as the lon...

Today we will discuss COVID-19 in the Anthropocene with Christoph Rosol and Bernd Scherer. Christoph Rosol is group leader of the umbrella project “Knowledge in and of the Anthropocene” and a researcher and curator at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (HKW). He studied the history of science and media studies in Berlin and Toronto. In 2012, he became a Predoctoral Fellow at the MPIWG and, later t...

Today we will discuss what it would mean to have a “just recovery” from COVID-19, with a close up look at Philadelphia.  Saleem Chapman serves as Philadelphia's first Chief Resilience Officer and the Deputy Director for the Philadelphia Office of Sustainability. In these roles, Saleem oversees the creation and implementation of climate preparedness and resilience strategies. He is also responsible...

Today I speak about Latinos in the United States in the midst of the pandemic with Washington Post reporter Arelis Hernandez. Arelis R. Hernandez is the Texas correspondent for the Washington Post covering the southern border region. She has spent the last half year, writing about the ways the coronavirus has impacted the intimate lives of Americans in ways both obvious and unseen. Prior to coming...

Today I speak about COVID-19 IN BANGLADESH AND FOOD INSECURITY with Hanna Ruscczyk, Durham University and Maheen Khan. Maheen Khan is a writer and co-editor for the Voices from the Frontline initiative by INTL CENTER FOR CLOMATE CHABGE AND DEVELOPMENT ICCCAD and CDKN. She is a communications specialist and has ten years of professional experience across multiple sectors: education, data/tech, and...

Today I speak with medical anthropologist Danya Glabeau and ID social scientist Emily Rogers. 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. She has also been Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social R...

Today I speak with disaster research polymath Ilan Kelman about COVID-19 and disaster diplomacy. Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health resear...

Today I speak with epidemiologist Sharrelle Barber. Dr. Sharrelle Barber is assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health.  She is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on the intersection of "place, race, and health." Dr. Barber leverages state-of-the-art epidemiologic cohort studies to examine how neighborhood-level struc...

Today I speak with the founder of Marked by COVID, Kristin Urquiza. Kristin Urquiza, is the Co-founder, Chief Activist of Marked by COVID Kristin is a graduate of Yale University and UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy where she has a Master of Public Affairs. She is an environmental advocate at Mighty Earth, where she works to hold corporations like Cargill accountable to their industri...

Today it is the second of my teaching COVID-19 sessions, today with Sarah Raskin and Nicole Welk-Joerger. Nicole Welk-Joerger is an interdisciplinary historian, trained in the history of science, technology, and medicine as well as anthropology. Her research focuses on human-animal relationships, particularly those that influence health and welfare as they are broadly construed and constantly rede...

Today I discuss COVID-19 medical education with Charles Cairnes, dean of the Drexel University School of Medicine. Charles B. Cairns, M.D. is the Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Dean of the College of Medicine and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs at Drexel University where he serves as Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine. Dr. Cairns has served as Director of the NIH United States...

Today I discuss COVID-19 and the difficulties with counting and memorializing the dead in a pandemic with Jacqueline Wernimont.   Jacqueline Wernimont is Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement & Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College She is an anti-racist, feminist scholar working toward greater justice in digital cultures and a...

Today I discuss recent COVID-19 battles in the courts with Kathy Bergin and Lindsay Wiley. Kathy Bergin is a recognized expert in Disaster Law, she presently teaches at Cornell University Law School—her research extends to humanitarian aid programs and the catastrophic impact of climate change. She has been crucial in promoting Disaster Law as an academic discipline. She is also a successful advoc...