With the second anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic, as well as the first reported case in Ottawa, Carleton experts are available to discuss and reflect on what has happened over the last two years.
Mehdi Ammi
Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University
Email: Mehdi.Ammi@Carleton.ca
Ammi is available to discuss the impact of COVID on the healthcare system and on the organization and financing of public health.
Jacquie Ballantine
PhD Candidate, School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University
Email: jacquieballantine@cmail.carleton.ca
Ballantine has been researching the COVID-19 pandemic experiences of autistic university students in terms of academic and social interactions on campus and online.
Ballantine is a retired speech-language clinician. Her research involves autistic individuals and other neurodiverse people, particularly regarding how they communicate and how this intersects with non-autistic ways of communicating
Amedeo D’Angiulli
Professor, Department of Neuroscience at Carleton University
Email: Amedeo.Dangiulli@carleton.ca
D’Angiulli is available to speak about the impact of economic hardship on families and children in terms of cognitive and brain processes. D’Angiulli is the director of The D’Angiulli Lab, which does interdisciplinary work covering cognitive neuropsychology, developmental science, sociology of education, educational psychologies and new fields within cognitive neuroscience.
Jim Davies
Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Computer Science at Carleton University
Email: Jim.Davies@carleton.ca
Davies is available to discuss how Buddhism and mindfulness can help people deal with measures to protect against COVID-19, including not touching one’s face. He is also available to discuss anxiety, depression, fear, prejudice and feelings of isolation, and the passing of time during the pandemic. He can discuss selfishness and how the pandemic brought people together in some interesting ways.
As director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, Davies explores computational modelling and artificial intelligence applied to human visual imagination. He is a frequent contributor to Nautilus magazine and is author of Riveted: The Science of How Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe. He is co-host of the award-winning Minding the Brain podcast.
Linda Duxbury
Professor of Management, Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
Email: linda.duxbury@carleton.ca
Duxbury is available to discuss issues relating to work-life balance, including keeping regular hours and how technology blurs the lines between the office and home.
Joshua Greenberg
Director and Professor, School of Journalism & Communication at Carleton University
Email: Joshua.Greenberg@carleton.ca
Greenberg is available to discuss crisis and risk communication strategies of public health officials, as well as media coverage of COVID-19.
His research examines media coverage of outbreaks and infectious disease risks; politicization of the pandemic; public risk perceptions of vaccination; the risk communication activities and strategies of key public health agencies and organizations; and the impact of technology change on public health communication.
Dawn Moore
Professor, Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University
Email: dawn.moore@carleton.ca
Moore is available to discuss COVID-19 in prisons and also how it has disrupted women’s careers.
Rodney Nelson
Instructor, Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
Email: Rodney.Nelson@carleton.ca
Nelson is available to discuss the impacts of pandemics on businesses and overall pandemic preparedness.
Nelson was the chair of the Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Working Group, and a member of the Minister of Health’s Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Team. He represented Canada to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on pandemics and has given several talks on pandemic preparedness in Canada and internationally.
Liam O’Brien
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University
Email: liam.obrien@carleton.ca
O’Brien is available to discuss the environmental and energy impacts of working from home.
Erling Rud
Professor, Department of Health Science at Carleton University
Email: underlingrud@cunet.carleton.ca
Rud is available to discuss the approaches used and challenges with developing a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. He is also available to discuss the changing role the advice of science experts has played during the pandemic and the concerns around reducing prevention measures.
Rud is a research scientist with over 30 years of experience in the academic, biotech, pharmaceutical and government sectors as a virologist. He has worked in many aspects of virology on emerging infectious diseases. His activities range from basic and molecular virology to antiviral and vaccine R&D.
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Friday, March 11, 2022 in Experts Available
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