Vaccine mandates have become a central issue in the upcoming federal election. Carleton experts are available to discuss this divisive issue.
Sarah Everts
Associate Professor, CTV Chair in Digital Science Journalism
Email: Sarah.Everts@carleton.ca
Everts joined Carleton University in 2019 after more than a decade in Berlin, Germany, where she reported on science and technology for a variety of publications including Scientific American, New Scientist, Smithsonian, and Chemical & Engineering News. Her work has garnered several awards and accolades, such as inclusion in the 2017 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology.
Everts’ research interests lie at the intersection of scientific innovation, policy and cultural anthropology. In other words, why are some of society’s most pressing science, health and environmental issues mired in a challenging combination of controversy, pseudoscience and legitimate uncertainty?
Other areas of interest include the culture, history and science of sweat; how social media influences public health information dissemination; and the history of chemical weapons.
Josh Greenberg
Director, School of Journalism and Communication and Professor, Communication and Media Studies
Email: Joshua.Greenberg@carleton.ca
As an expert on crisis and health risk communication, Greenberg says mixed messages are confusing and reverberating within communities where they create second-order challenges for public health officials. Once an initial frame takes hold, risk communication research has found it really hard to shift people’s thinking.
Greenberg’s expertise is in the broad area of health risk communication, with a focus on media coverage of outbreaks and other infectious disease risks; public risk perceptions of vaccination; and the risk communication strategies and media activities of public health officials and organizations.
Ian Lee
Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business
Email: Ian.Lee@carleton.ca
Ha spoken to the media about how proof of vaccines could work in private spaces and why they could become mandatory.
Lee has appeared multiple times before the House of Commons and Senate, as well as on finance, banking, industry and trade committees. He has been in every Government of Canada budget lockup since 2008. He attended pre-budget consultations with the Minister of Finance in 2009 and 2011. His work has appeared in the annual publication How Ottawa Spends concerning Canada’s retirement system, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, deficits, corporate income reform and the Liberal downsizing of 1995-97 and the Conservative Government downsizing of 2010-15.
Vida Panitch
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Email: vida.panitch@carleton.ca
Panitch focuses on political philosophy, philosophy and economics, and bioethics.
Panitch has taught bioethics courses where she discusses the central debates in medical ethics. She explores the many ethical questions that have arisen in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. She covers the philosophical principles that inform bioethical reasoning and addresses public health and public health care, health resource allocation, the obligations of medical professionals, research on human subjects, vaccine enforcement, as well as social and global health justice.
Patrick Saunders-Hastings
Instructor, Health Sciences
Email: Patrick.SaundersHastings@Carleton.ca
Saunders-Hastings is an epidemiologist and risk scientist with expertise in global health, infectious disease epidemiology and emergency preparedness. His research has assessed the preparedness of the Canadian hospital system to accommodate surge in patient demand associated with future pandemics, and involved the development and application of a mathematical model to chart flu transmission in Canada.
His current projects include the implementation and use of digital health record systems and the assessment of drug safety and effectiveness. He is available to discuss epidemiology and the current state/projections, testing procedures, hospital capacity, contact tracing, social/physical distancing and return to work etc.
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Thursday, August 19, 2021 in Experts Available
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