covidcalls

COVIDCalls

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A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts - hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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#3 COVIDCalls 3.18.2020 - Evacuation & Shelter Decision-Making & Coping w/ Pets 01.06.2020 58:30

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...

#2 COVIDCalls 3.17.2020 - Journalism & Social Science in the Pandemic w/ Robinson Meyer & Kim Fortun 01.06.2020 58:50

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...

#1 COVIDCalls 3.16.2020 - The First Episode: Public Health & COVID-19 in the USA 01.06.2020 59:21

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...

COVIDCALLS - An Introduction 01.06.2020 21:11

Host Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles introduces the COVIDCalls podcast.