COVIDCalls

Today I talk with Deborah Streahle, an expert in the history of end-of-life and death care. Deborah Streahle is a historian of medicine, technology, and care in American life. I am pursuing a PhD in history at Yale University. Her current research investigates alternative end-of-life and death care since 1960.

Today I talk with anthropologist Adia Benton. Adia Benton is a cultural anthropologist at Northwestern University with interests in global health, biomedicine, development/humanitarianism and professional sports. She writes frequently on her blog, ethnography911.org, and on twitter (as ethnography911), connecting these issues with broader conversations about political economy, race and gender. Her...

Today I talk with journalist and friend of COVIDCalls Colleen Hagerty.  Joining her are emergency manager Sarah Miller and wildland firefighter Luke Mayfield. Colleen Hagerty is a freelance journalist telling narrative stories through video, print, and social mediums. Much of her work reflects how global communities are reckoning with our changing climate, social dynamics, technologies, and politi...

Today I talk with medical anthropologist Todd Meyers about COVID, vulnerability, and the ways we process the aftermath of a disaster. Todd Meyers is a medical anthropologist whose work moves between ethnography, visual culture, and the history of medicine. He joined McGill University's Department of Social Studies of Medicine as the Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine last year. ...

Today I talk about COVID in South Korea with June Jeon and Yeongjun Yeo of the National Assembly Futures Institute of Korea. Associate Research Fellow, National Assembly Futures Institute, Republic of Korea. June was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University’s Center for Civic ScienceJune is a sociologist of science and technology, studying how social power interacts with science and te...

Today I talk to Nisha Patel, Edmonton, Canada’s poet laureate. Nisha Patel is an award-winning queer and disabled artist. She was the City of Edmonton’s 8th Poet Laureate, and the 2019 Canadian Individual Slam Champion. She is a recipient of the Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund Award and the University of Alberta Alumni Award of Excellence. Her debut collection COCONUT is available now at Glass Booksh...

Today I get a COVID and public health update with longtime friend of COVIDCalls, 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 to joining...

Today I discuss the dangerous world of COVID conspiracies with my guest Anna Muldoon of the School for the Future of Innovation and Society at ASU. Anna Muldoon is a co-author of  COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories  and currently focuses on conspiracy, misinformation, and apocalypticism around infectious disease outbreaks. She is a former Science Policy Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary f...

I’m glad to return to the COVIDCalls microphone after a much-needed break.  It was one that, quite honestly, I really needed—but it’s nothing compared to the break that nurses and docs and teachers and other essential workers across the USA and around the world need.  The stories coming from full emergency departments and overcrowded, unvaccinated, classrooms in the United States are so distressin...

Welcome to the 320th episode of COVID-Calls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a historian of public health at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina. This week I will be the guest host of COVID-Calls while the program’s founder, Scott Knowles, takes a much-needed recharge. Dr. Lakshmi...

Welcome to the 319th episode of COVID-Calls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a historian of public health at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina. This week I will be the guest host of COVID-Calls while the program’s founder, Scott Knowles, takes a much-needed recharge. Dr Mandisa ...

Welcome to the 318th episode of COVID-Calls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a historian of public health at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina. This week I will be the guest host of COVID-Calls while the program’s founder and host, Scott Knowles, takes a much-needed recharge. Dr...

Welcome to the 317th episode of COVID-Calls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a historian of public health at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina. This week I will be the guest host of COVID-Calls while the program’s founder and host, Scott Knowles, takes a much-needed recharge. Dr...

Welcome to the 316h of the COVID Calls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Kim Fortun, standing in for COVID Calls host Scott Gabriel Knowles,  I am a cultural anthropologist who studies disaster and environmental health vulnerability.  My co-host is Katie Cox, an anthropologist whose research examines how environmental injustice i...

Today we’ll discuss a new research data resource --  the Pandemic Vulnerability Index -- built by researchers at the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, North Carolina State University and Texas A&M University.  Alison Motsinger-Reif  is Chief of and a principal investigator in the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch at the US National Institute of Environmental Heal...

Welcome to the 314th of the COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Kim Fortun, standing in for COVID Calls host Scott Gabriel Knowles,  I am a cultural anthropologist who studies disaster and environmental health vulnerability.  I’m calling in from the Department of Anthropology, University of California Irvine, on the nati...

Welcome to the 313th of the COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Kim Fortun, standing in for COVID Calls host Scott Gabriel Knowles,  I am a cultural anthropoligist who studies disaster and environmental health vulnerability.  My co-hose is James Adams, a cultural anthropologist specializing in the study of energy transit...

Welcome to the 312th of the COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Eleanor Mayes, my pronouns are she/her. you may remember me from previously co-hosting episode 301. I currently serve as a production assistant and transcription director for COVIDCalls.  As always, host Scott Gabriel Knowles is here, Shor Salkas (they/them)...

Today I discuss COVID-19 in Australia with epidemiologist and global health expert Marylouise McLaws. Marylouise McLaws is a Professor of Epidemiology, Hospital Infection and Infectious Diseases Control at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.   She is a member of the World Health Organization Infection Prevention and Control group for COVID-19.

Today I discuss COVID-19 and public health in Vietnam with anthropologist Martha Lincoln. Martha Lincoln is Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at San Francisco State University. A medical and cultural anthropologist, she has commented on the social and cultural dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic frequently over the past year, including in opinion essays in Nature and The Hill. 

Today is a researchers’ roundtable with Tanya Corbin, Summer Merion, and Filip Vostel. Tanya Corbin (Ph. D. Political Science), is a disaster policy scholar and Department Chair of Security and Emergency Services at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide. Before pursuing an academic career, she worked in policy, non-profit, and business, including as a small business owner. This experience...

Today I welcome Clark Miller for a discussion of science, technology, globalization, and COVID. Clark Miller is Professor and Director of the Center for Energy and Society in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University

Today I will discuss the economic impacts of COVID-19 with economist Micah Pollak. Dr. Micah Pollak is an associate professor of economics and the director of the Center for Economic Education and Research in the School of Business and Economics at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Indiana. His research interests cover a wide range of topics, including data analytics, applied microeconomics, h...

Today I am joined by Sharon Weinberger, national security writer and Washington Bureau Chief of Yahoo News. Sharon Weinberger is the Washington Bureau Chief of Yahoo News and the author of The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World, published by Knopf. She has held  fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, th...

Today I am joined by Hye-yeong Jang, disability justice advocate and member of the South Korean national assembly. Hye-yeong Jang serves currently as a national assembly member of the 21st Parliament in South Korea—she is a member of the Justice Party and serves as chairman of policy. She is active in parliamentary politics especially working as a chief author of several pieces of legislation such...