My name is Scott Gabriel Knowles, I am a historian of disasters and since March 16, 2020 the host of COVIDCalls, a daily discussion of the pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. Today I will be reading some memorials from victims of COVID.

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 to Christians” will be published by Fortress Press in Summer 2022.  Rabbi Harvey also hosts a podcast with an Episcopal Priest entitled “A Priest and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar.”  For more information on Rabbi Harvey, go to www.RabbiMichaelHarvey.com.

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 bacteria and nanoparticles in water, Walker is also a fellow in the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) and in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

She is a winner of the Fulbright Fellowship, for which she visited at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel; received an NSF Career Award in 2010; and held an ELATE fellowship from 2014-15. Walker has produced more than 250 conference papers and publications, and in 2018 won the AEESP inaugural Mary Ann Liebert Award for Publication Excellence in Environmental Engineering Science.

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 Invisible: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Material Politics of Plastic Waste in South Korea,” where she argues that plastic waste has not just increased in Korea during COVID-19 pandemic, a time when the government both allowed discard of disposable plastics and invisibilized the infrastructure to treat those wastes. She wants to expand her area of research into revealing unequal relationships around waste, and its impacts on different beings, humans and non-humans. 

Hyon Soo Jeong is a master's candidate at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy in KAIST. She is interested in data sharing during COVID-19, and her internship experience at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Seoul Policy Center inspired her to study public-private partnerships driven by Information and Communication Technology. Her Master's thesis is titled “A study of coproduction for information sharing during COVID-19: focusing on the case of citizen-developed map services in South Korea,” and her study focuses on how Korean civil society's action of information sharing driven by open government data influenced COVID-19 policy in South Korea.

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, United States. Her research interests are equity issues related to energy and climate change policies, energy transition, and non-state stakeholders’ responses to climate changes. Currently, she is working on several research projects related to sustainability issues in urban areas as well. 

June-Yi Lee is Associate Professor of Research Center for Climate Sciences, Pusan National University; and Associate Project Leader of Institute for Basic Science Center for Climate Physics. She holds a Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Earth system predictability including not only physical variables but also biogeochemical cycle on intraseasonal-interannual-to-interdecadal time scales. She is a Core Writing Team member, IPCC 6th Assessment Synthesis Report.

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 and University of Texas Academy of Distinguished Teachers, Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology, Professor of Educational Psychology and African and African Diaspora Studies, and past Director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis.   He holds the title of Distinguished Psychologist and received the Scholarship Award from the Association of Black Psychologists. He has written several Op-Eds in major media outlets on topics such as Blacks’ rational mistrust of police, the aftermath of Ferguson, police and race relations, racism and White supremacy, the use of school vouchers, and racial disparities in school discipline. His research has been recognized in media outlets including the New York Times, USA Today, and Inside Higher Education.

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 as dean of the Graduate School and director of the Miller Center. His scholarly work has focused on critical episodes in American and world history. 

He was a trial and appellate lawyer and then a career diplomat before taking academic positions at Harvard, then Virginia.  His government career includes federal service during five administrations positions in the White House, State Department, and the Pentagon. His last full-time government position was as the counselor of the Department of State, a deputy to Secretary Condoleezza Rice. 

He was the executive director of the 9/11 Commission. 

He is one of the few individuals ever to serve on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Boards for presidents of both parties, in the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. 

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, health and safety, and improving democracy."

Rob Verchick holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans. He is also a Senior Fellow at Tulane University's Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy, in the School of Social Work, and President of the Center for Progressive Reform, a national policy institute focused on public health, public welfare, and environmental protection.  Professor Verchick served in the Obama administration as Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 and 2010

His work has appeared in many venues, including the California Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, and the environmental law journals at Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley. He is the author of three books, including Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World (Harvard University Press 2010) which was selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association.

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's frequently talked about his reporting on radio and television shows (like Fresh Air, Radiolab, and The Colbert Report) and at the TED conference in Vancouver. Occasionally, he collaborates on live storytelling and music projects with members of the Decemberists.

Jon's most recent book, THIS IS CHANCE!, tells the story of the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and radio reporter Genie Chance. The Wall Street Journal called it "A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism." Amazon, Buzzfeed and Brainpickings selected THIS IS CHANCE! as one of the best books of 2020 and it’s in the process of being adapted into a film. His last book, Wild Ones was chosen as a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, NPR’s Science Friday, and Canada’s National Post, among others. He lives on Bainbridge Island, next to Seattle. During the pandemic, he's primarily been a father. Also, he built a fence.

This Is Chance!: The Shaking of An American City, A Voice that Held it Together

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. Prior to joining the Drexel faculty in 2010, Dr. Chernak worked at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health for over 25 years. She is a regular contributor to COVIDCalls.

Tom Hipper is the Associate Director of the Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication (CPHRC) at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, where he recently managed a CDC-funded grant project designed to address the disaster information needs of children with special health care needs. He is  Assistant Teaching Faculty at Drexel University, where he teaches courses in crisis and risk communication. Mr. Hipper is also a Fellow of the Center for Risk Communication.

My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a Historian of Epidemic Disease and Public Health at the College of Charleston. I’m so glad to be hosting a series of episodes for this special program. You can catch most of them with the regular host and founder of COVID-Calls, Scott Knowles.

Today I want to do a deep dive into COVID metaphors- COVID history, COVID research networks, and COVID emotions- a big topic with some amazing guests.

My guests today- make this episode particularly special, as they are both brilliant historians and also friends.

Dr. Agnes Arnold-Forster is a historian of medicine, healthcare, work, and emotions at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her first book, The Cancer Problem, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021, and is current sitting on my desk. Agnes is current a co-PI on the project Healthy Scepticism, a Wellcome Trust and King’s College funded multidisciplinary project about healthcare dissenters and anti-establishment voices. For several years before this she was part of the Surgery and Emotion project- a second monograph Cold, Hard Steel: The Surgical Stereotype Past & Present comes out this year with Manchester University Press.

Dr. Nathan Crowe is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is an expert on the history of twentieth century biology, biotechnology, biomedicine and Anglo-American scientific culture. His book- also on my desk, Forgotten Clones: the Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution, charts the emergence of cloning techniques in cancer research after WWII, and the complicated matrix of cloning science and cloning publics into the 1960s. Nathan is currently working a several projects related to understanding biotechnology.

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 agricultural practices that displace indigenous people from their lands and drive deforestation in places like the Amazon rainforest and beyond. Additionally, Kristin works closely with Liberation in a Generation, a group working to narrow the wealth gap between people of color and white families in the United States within a generation.

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 Long Covid “Long Hauler” Support Group), and strong media presence to raise awareness about the importance of Black voices in conversations on the prevention, treatment, and research of Long Covid in urban communities. In December 2020, she was a featured patient-led panelist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) workshop on Post-Acute Covid. Chimére is an independent member of The Long Covid Alliance and a recently-appointed board member of Body Politic. In April 2021, Smith was praised for her heart-wrenching and brazen testimony during a bipartisan Congressional hearing on Long Covid after becoming the first Black woman to detail her Long Covid experience.

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 past editorial board member of The Washington Post "Made By History" section; and a Presidential Counselor of the National WWII Museum.  In 2020, he founded the History Club on Clubhouse, which he hosts regularly. The club has more than 100,000 members and averages 2,500 participants per week.

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 than 30 new medical treatments and impacts care for more than 70 diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views. Dr. Li has been featured in USA Today, Time Magazine, The Atlantic and O Magazine. He is president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation and is leading research into COVID-19. 

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 environment and technology. 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). She is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Humanities and co-directs The Greenhouse environmental humanities program area at University of Stavanger.

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 was the first prize winner of the Yeats Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Rattle, Nurture, Slate, Best New Poets, The Threepenny Review, and numerous other journals.  She has been both a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Pearl Hogrefe Fellow at Iowa State. She taught creative writing, literature, and ESL at the high school and college level for nearly twenty years. She is working on another poetry collection, a memoir called "Shivah Bullies," and seeking a publisher for an anthology of stories from the WhoWeLost Project.

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 clients deal with daily.

Dr. Marjorie's dynamic and authentic coaching style creates trust, motivates, and moves people toward positive change with actionable results. She assists her clients in finding their deep inner happiness after pain, helping them define and achieve goals as they consistently live a more joyful life.

She attended Capella University and obtained a Doctorate Of Business Administration with a Specialization in Strategy and Innovation in 2014. Additionally, Dr. Marjorie gained her Life Coaching Certification in November of 2019.

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 after the New World Order argues that Black speculative fictions are a critical but overlooked archive for understanding America’s security ambitions since the Reagan Administration. Bringing works by Octavia E. Butler, Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead, and N.K. Jemisin (among others) into conversation with “white papers” Breaking The World argues that Black speculation rejects the false promises of securitization by figuring insecurity as a central mode for making political and social worlds. In his recent article “Black Insecurity at the End of the World,” published in Oct by MELUS, Dr. Mann examines the racialization of disease in Colson Whitehead’s zombie novel, Zone One, arguing that the novel offers different and distinct frames for understanding how disease maps onto logic of racial difference. Dr. Mann’s work has also appeared in the journals Feminist Theory, Surveillance & Society, Feminist Studies, and elsewhere.

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 and musical instrument sales, officiating in minor-league hockey, and producing television news in Louisiana and Tennessee. A native of New Orleans, he has degrees in music from the University of New Orleans and the University of Northern Colorado, and he and his meteorologist wife have two children. He is currently doing a research year with the University of Kansas Cancer Center's Melanoma Project.

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 organizes cross-disciplinary programming for public lectures and academic symposia, including a series of lectures and symposia related the 3/11 Tohoku disasters.  Since 2011, he has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Fukushima, interviewing nuclear refugees, prefectural mayors, military officials, anti-nuclear activists and nuclear industry experts. He is writing a book on the political dimensions of radiation assessment in the Fukushima nuclear crisis, examining how foreign governments in Japan responded to the crisis. He is co-editor (with Scott Knowles and Ryuma Shineha of the book “Legacies of Fukushima: 3/11 in Context,” published by University of Pennsylvania Press (forthcoming in May of 2021). 

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 University, where she is the faculty director of the Center on Health Policy and Law. Professor Parmet is the author of numerous law review and peer reviewed articles. Her books include The Health of Newcomers: Immigration, Health Policy and the Case for Global Solidarity, co-authored with Patricia Illingworth (2017, NYU Press), Populations, Public Health, and the Law (2009, Georgetown University Press) and the forthcoming Constitutional Contagion, How Constitutional Law is Killing Us. (2023, Cambridge Univ. Press). Professor Parmet is also Associate Editor for Law and Ethics for the American Journal of Public Health.

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 social practices. She has published 3 books (Cyberprotest; Anti-war Activism; Eco-Homes) and over 30 articles on themes around eco-housing, eco-communities, social justice and environmentalism. She is currently completing a book on Eco-communities: Living Together Differently.

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 Disability Section.

Hana Meshesha is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Counseling, University of Montana and the Mentoring co-chair for the APHA Disability Section Mentorship program.

Meg Ann Traci is a senior scientist and research associate professor at the University of Montana Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities with nearly thirty years of experience in the field of disability and health.

Dr. Clarke is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. She is also a Research Professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Her work examines the social determinants of disability, with a particular focus on the built environment for older adults aging in place.

Today I welcome Kim Tallbear, author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science.

Kim TallBear is a Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society. She is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota. Dr. TallBear is the author of the book Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Building on her research on the role of science in settler colonialism, TallBear also studies the roles of the overlapping ideas of “sexuality” and “nature” in colonization of Indigenous peoples. She is a regular commentator in US, Canadian, and UK media outlets on issues related to Indigenous peoples, science, technology, and Indigenous sexualities. She is a regular panelist on the weekly podcast, Media Indigena. She tweets on these topics and more at @KimTallBear. Her research websites include www.IndigenousSTS.com and www.re-lab.ca. You can also follow her occasional posts on her Substack newsletter, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs, cultural politics & (de)colonization, https://kimtallbear.substack.com. 

Today I welcome Brianne Benness host of the No End in Sight podcast.

Brianne Benness is the host of No End In Sight, a podcast about life with chronic illness, and the creator of #NEISVoid, an active community hashtag for questions and conversations about life with chronic illness across diagnosis and diagnostic status. Brianne is also a co-founder of Stories We Don’t Tell, a candid Toronto storytelling event, podcast and anthology. Brianne holds a post-graduate certificate in Media and Medicine from Harvard Medical School and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan. Some of her recent work includes her TEDx talk “Disease Begins Before Diagnosis” and a Spring 2021 short course at Grinnell College “Personal Storytelling for Social Impact.”

Today I welcome artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, creator of the In America: Remember COVID memorial in Washington DC.

Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg is a visual artist who has demonstrated the power of art to touch hundreds of thousands of lives. In the Fall of 2020, images of her In America: How could this happen…art installation graced over six hundred news articles on six continents, making visible the pandemic’s cost in American lives.  Her art created a national space for mourning.

Firstenberg believes art has incredible power to educate, inspire, and change the lens through which viewers understand social issues. Interviews, research, and reading ground her work on topics that include gun violence, Native Americans, homelessness, and political partisanship.  The underlying theme is upholding individual dignity, a value honed through her twenty-five years of hospice volunteering.

She travelled to twenty-four states and interviewed hundreds of people in preparation for her newly completed EMPTY FIX project, a seven-installation art series to decrease societal stigma surrounding drug addiction. She had represented the United States at the Harbin (China) International Ice/Snow Sculpting Competition (2016) and has work accessioned by the Smithsonian.

Today I welcome Tom Ewing and Katharine Randall, authors of "How did we get here: what are droplets and aerosols and how far do they go? A historical perspective on the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases.”

Tom Ewing is a professor of history and associate dean at Virginia Tech. His current research projects include studies of influenza pandemics, including the 1889-1892 Russian flu and the 1918-1919 Spanish flu, and a history of Virginia’s first tuberculosis sanatoria, Catawba and Piedmont, in collaboration with Katherine Randall and Kiana Wilkerson. In 2020, he worked with graduate students from Virginia Tech to understand the use of masks during the 1918 pandemic, which resulted in essays published in the Washington Post, Health Affairs blog, Items (SSRC), and Nursing Clio.

Katherine Randall is a visiting lecturer of technical communication at the University of Central Florida. Her most recent research projects include a rhetorical history of the scientific understanding around airborne transmission, a history of Piedmont and Catawba tuberculosis sanatoria, and an exploration of the role of health communication in refugee resettlement in the United States.

Today I welcome Salonee Bhaman, a scholar whose research explores the intersections of care work, welfare policy, and social provision in the United States.

Salonee Bhaman is a PhD candidate in the department of History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her research explores the intersections of care work, welfare policy, and social provision in the United States. Her dissertation project focuses on questions of political economy, migration, and intimate regulation during the first decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. 

Today I welcome Dr. Vipul Shah, Medical Director, R P Shah Memorial trust against Covid 19.

Vipul Shah is the Medical Director and Consultant for pediatric orthopedics, pediatric spine and scoliosis at R .P. Shah Memorial Trust for children with Disabilities in Lucknow, India.  He is Medical Director of the R P Shah Memorial trust against Covid 19.  A graduate of GSVM Medical College, Kanpur, India He is also Patient Care Coordinator for UNICEF.  He was the 1st Non American candidate to win the prestigious CART Fellowship of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.  He is a Mentor of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine since 2017.

Today I welcome Dr. Vipul Shah, Medical Director, R P Shah Memorial trust against Covid 19.

Vipul Shah is the Medical Director and Consultant for pediatric orthopedics, pediatric spine and scoliosis at R .P. Shah Memorial Trust for children with Disabilities in Lucknow, India.  He is Medical Director of the R P Shah Memorial trust against Covid 19.  A graduate of GSVM Medical College, Kanpur, India He is also Patient Care Coordinator for UNICEF.  He was the 1st Non American candidate to win the prestigious CART Fellowship of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.  He is a Mentor of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine since 2017.

Today I welcome Elizabeth Ellcessor author of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality, which is forthcoming in Spring 2022.

Elizabeth Ellcessor is an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, and a senior faculty fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. Her research focuses on media access as a variable and uneven phenomenon that advantages some and marginalizes others. She is the author of Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation and of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality, which is forthcoming in Spring 2022.

Teresa Tindle Akintonwa is an education specialist, patient advocacy blogger, and founder of the Black Covid-19 Survivors Support group, an online community aimed at helping African-Americans overcome the misinformation, exclusion, and trauma of having Covid. Teresa herself contracted Covid-19 early in the pandemic back in February 2020 and has been contending with the physical and cognitive impact ever since.

Lisa McCorkell is a co-founder and patient-researcher with Patient-Led Research Collaborative, a group of people with Long COVID who conducted the first and most comprehensive research on Long COVID. As a result of her research with PLRC, she has testified to Congress, presented to the White House COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, and been featured in The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. In her day job, she is a policy analyst at the California Department of Social Services. She received a Masters in Public Policy from University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles. 

Today I welcome Long COVID activists Teresa Tindle Akintonwa and Lisa McCorkell to #COVIDCalls

Today I welcome Jennifer Sullivan, founder of the For Those We Lost podcast.

Jennifer Sullivan lives outside of Portland, Oregon. She is a part-time community college instructor and also works in social media marketing. Her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's from a Traumatic Brain Injury in 2014 and Jennifer became her mother's family caregiver and advocate. Her mother was in a memory care home when the COVID pandemic lockdowns began in March of 2020. Jennifer made it her mission to TRY and find a way to safely visit her mother, to provide the physical contact, hugs and kisses that her mom needed. Instead her mother got COVID in an outbreak in her memory care and passed away in August 2020. To help herself heal, Jennifer started a podcast where she interviews people who have lost loved ones to COVID.

Today is a special COVIDCalls recorded in conjunction with the 2021 Toronto International Festival of Authors.  My guests are anthropologist Katherine E. Browne & resilience expert/engineer Laurian Farrell.

Let’s turn to the discussion I had with Katherine Browne and Laurian Farrell as part of the Toronto Intl. Festival of Authors.

Today I welcome writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola to COVIDCalls, she is the author of Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move.

Nanjala Nyabola is a writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on the intersection between technology, media, and society. In addition to academic writing, she writes analysis and commentary for numerous publications around the world and  is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed Books, 2018) and Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move (Hurst Books, 2020). 

Today I welcome social psychologist Orla Muldoon exploring the value of social solidarity for public adherence to health messaging during COVID19.

Orla Muldoon is a professor of social psychology at the University of Limerick.  She studies ways that social contexts and in particular social systems and structures can shape behaviour, attitudes and health. She regularly contribute to the new media and in particular offer opinion editorials in the Irish Times.  She is a current member of the Irish Research Council and serve on the Behaviour and communications committee advising the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).  She is currently managing an ERC Advanced grant that explores whether adversity, trauma and its psychological consequences are driven by social identity change; and a HRB-IRC funded project that is exploring the value of social solidarity to public adherence to health messaging during COVID19.

Today I welcome Science, Technology, and Society scholar Hyomin Kim to discuss COVID, science, and culture in South Korea.

Hyomin Kim is an Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts, of the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology. Her research interests include the co-production of knowledge, values, identities and authority around technoscience. She has performed research projects in the field of public engagement with science and technology (PEST).  She is the co-author of “Public Deliberation on South Korean Nuclear Power Plants: How Can Lay Knowledge Resist against Expertise?” (East Asian Science and Technology), and “Women and Men in Computer Science: Geeky Proclivities, College Rank, and Gender in Korea”

Today I welcome medical anthropologist Emma Kowal, author of Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia.

Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist who previously worked as a medical doctor and public health researcher in Indigenous health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of STS and Indigenous studies and have recently focused on the many iterations and resonances of ‘Indigenous DNA’. She has authored over 100 publications including the monograph Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia and the collection Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World. Her current book project is entitled Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia.

Today I welcome Adam Searle and Jonathon Turnbull to COVIDCalls to talk about their work on “More than human perspectives” on the pandemic.

Jonathon Turnbull is a cultural and environmental geographer from the University of Cambridge. His PhD research, funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council, concerns the return of nature to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, where he has been working for the last two years with scientists studying different aspects of the Zone's ecology, especially dogs and wolves.

Adam Searle is a cultural and environmental geographer from the University of Liège in Belgium. His PhD research at Cambridge examined de/extinction—or bringing extinct animals back to life—building upon ethnographic work in the Spanish and French Pyrenees, and his postdoctoral research, funded by the European Research Council, concerns the use of biotechnologies in agriculture.

Today I welcome medical students Mayank Jayaram & Minna Wybrecht to the program.

Minna Wybrecht is a 3rd year medical student at the University of Michigan, pursuing a specialty in family medicine. She grew up in Taiwan and Michigan. Her passions include translating between English and Mandarin, providing trauma-informed care, as well as addressing health care disparities. Outside of medicine, Minna is a dancer and a published poet. You can find her work in places such as the Journal of Medical Humanities.

Mayank Jayaram is a 3rd year medical student at the University of Michigan with a B.S. in physiology from Michigan State University. Mayank is interested in general surgery and plans to pursue a career in academic medicine where he can mentor the next generation of learners while also striving to improve healthcare inequities. In his free time, Mayank enjoys archery, chess, and research. He has published articles in JAMA and Nature affiliated journals.

Today I welcome pioneering HIV/AIDS & global health researcher/activist Gregg Gonsalves.

My guest today! Gregg Gonsalves is an expert in policy modeling on infectious disease and substance use, as well as the intersection of public policy and health equity. His research focuses on the use of quantitative models for improving the response to epidemic diseases. For more than 30 years, he worked on HIV/AIDS and other global health issues with several organizations, including the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, the Treatment Action Group, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa. He was also a fellow at the Open Society Foundations and in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2011-2012. He is a 2011 graduate of Yale College and received his PhD from Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/School of Public Health in 2017. He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.