COVIDCalls

Today I speak with school nursing practitioner and leader Robin Cogan—author of The Relentless School Nurse blog.  

Today I speak with Rabbi Mike Harvey, Resident Chaplain within the Indiana University Health system in Indianapolis. Rabbi Mike Harvey is a Resident Chaplain within the IU Health system in Indianapolis, Indiana.  He was ordained from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in 2015 and is a strong proponent of interfaith dialogue and communication.  His book “Let’s Talk: A Rabbi Speaks...

Today I speak with Drexel University dean of engineering, Professor Sharon Walker about engineering education in the time of a pandemic. Dr. Sharon L. Walker, PhD, is Dean of Drexel’s College of Engineering and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. A Yale University-trained water quality systems expert focusing on the fate and transport of...

Today is a researchers’ roundtable day on #COVIDCalls, and I welcome KAIST graduate students Hyon Soo Jeong and Hyunah Keum to talk about their new research on COVID. Hyunah Keum is a master's candidate at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. She recently finished her master’s thesis titled “Making Waste Acceptable and Invisib...

Today I welcome Hana Kim and June-Yi Lee to discuss their work on climate change adaptation and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in the COVID Era. Hana Kim is an assistant professor of School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea. She received a Ph. D. in Energy and Environmental Policy from University of Delaware, Unite...

Today I welcome educational psychology professor Kevin Cokley co-author of the new article The COVID‐19/racial injustice syndemic andmental health among Black Americans Kevin Cokley, Ph. D. holds the Oscar and Anne Mauzy Regents Professorship for Educational Research and Development in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the University of Texas System a...

Today I welcome Philip Zelikow, who served as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, and also served on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Boards in the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. We will discuss the work of the COVID Commission Planning Group. Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he has also served...

Today I welcome Robert Verchick, Environmental Law  professor at Loyola University New Orleans. "Rob Verchick is one of the nation’s leading scholars in disaster and climate change law and a former EPA official in the Obama administration. He teaches at Loyola University New Orleans and at Tulane University. He also hosts the podcast, “CPR’s Connect the Dots,” which focuses on climate justice, hea...

Today I am glad to bring writer Jon Mooallem, 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...

Today I welcome Tom Hipper and Esther Chernak for an update on the Omicron variant and public health in the USA. 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. P...

Today I welcome Kristin Urquiza, founder of Marked by COVID. Kristin Urquiza, is the Co-founder, and 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 industrial...

Today I welcome Cassie Alexander back to CCalls, author of Year of the Nurse: A 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic Memoir. Cassie Alexander is a registered nurse of fourteen years -- burn, critical care transport, and ICU -- and a paranormal romance author. Her most recent book is Year of the Nurse: A 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic Memoir about her experiences working in a covid ward in 2020. 

Today I speak with Chimere Smith, writer and activist on behalf of Black women in America with Long COVID. Chimére L. Smith is a writer and thought leader who has appeared on MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin, The Washington Post, Medium, and on PBS NewsHour. Since June 2020, she has used her social media platforms, engagement in grass-root Covid-19 support groups (notably Body Politic and BIPOC Women...

Today I welcome public historian Jason Steinhauer, author of History Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past. Jason Steinhauer served as Founding Director of the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest; is currently a Global Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center and a  Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute ; a contributor to TIME and CNN; a...

Today I welcome William W. Li, MD , author of the New York Times bestseller  “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.”  William W. Li, MD , is an internationally renowned physician, scientist and author of the New York Times bestseller  “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.”  His groundbreaking work has led to the development of more...

Today I welcome KAIST students SeungChan Choi, Junha Yoon, and JaeHoon Kim for a group discussion on COVID-19 in Korea.

Today I welcome Dolly Jørgensen--Professor of History, University of Stav-anger, Norway. Her current research agenda focuses on cultural histories of animal extinction, and she recently published Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging (MIT Press, 2019). Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History, University of Stav-anger, Norway specializing in histories of envi...

Today I welcome Martha Greenwald is the Founding Director, creator, and curator of the The WhoWeLost Project. Martha Greenwald is the Founding Director, creator, and curator of the The WhoWeLost Project, which includes the websites WhoWeLost.org and WhoWeLostKY.org.  She is the author of the poetry collection Other Prohibited Items, which won the Mississippi Review Prize for Poetry. In 2020, she w...

Today I welcome Dr. Marjorie Roberts, COVID-19 survivor, Long Covid activist, and life coach. Dr. Marjorie Roberts is a Certified Life Coach and Speaker who coaches her clients how to create the life of their dreams even after this life-altering virus, COVID-19. Living through this life-altering illness and learning to navigate life differently, she has  a real-time experience with what her client...

Today I welcome Justin Mann author of “Black Insecurity at the End of the World.” Justin L. Mann is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He has research and teaching interests in African American literature, Black feminist theory, Black speculative fiction, and security policy. His current book project, Breaking the World: Black Insecurity afte...

Today I welcome MD/MBA Thomas Irwin to discuss medical education in the time of COVID. A graduate of the MD/MBA program at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, Tom Irwin worked as an opera singer and bass player for nearly two decades before medical school. Since making a living as a musician requires other work as well, his other employment has included professional sound a...

Today I welcome sociologist Kyle Cleveland from Temple University Japan, co-editor of Legacies of Fukushima: 3.11 in Context. Kyle Cleveland is Associate Professor of Sociology at Temple University’s Japan Campus (TUJ), where he is Faculty Director of Study Abroad and Honors Programming.   He is the founding director of the university's Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS), which organiz...

Today I welcome Wendy E. ParMET Parmet, the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University—co-editor of Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19. Wendy E. Parmet is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern...

Today I welcome Jenny Pickerill, Professor of Environmental Geography and Head of the Department of Geography at Sheffield University. Jenny Pickerill is a Professor of Environmental Geography and Head of Department of Geography at Sheffield University, England. Her research focuses on inspiring grassroots solutions to environmental problems and in hopeful and positive ways in which we can change...

Today I welcome Meg Traci, Mackenzie Jones and Hana Meshesha to discuss their research on people with disabilities copied during the COVID era. Philippa Clarke, is hoping to join us tonight too. Mackenzie Jones is the Health Education Specialist for the Montana Disability and Health Program at the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and the Accessibility liaison for the APHA Dis...