Wednesday September 2, 2020
Session 7: Global health
Chair: Peter Berman, UBC SPP
Speakers:
• Travel restrictions and other crossborder measures during pandemics: The role of global governance [Kelley Lee, SFU]
• Democratic Health Communications during COVID-19 [Heidi Tworek, UBC]
• Pandemic Economies: Bonds, Hedge Funds and Making Money with a Pandemic [Susan Erikson, SFU]
• Utilizing Health Systems Data to Respond to COVID-19 in Seven Resource Poor Countries [Michael Law, UBC]
• Containing COVID-19: How has governance, the public health system and politics shaped country responses [Peter Berman, UBC]
• Protecting South African healthcare workers from COVID-19: A comparative contextualized global occupational health analysis [Annalee Yassi & Jerry Spiegel, UBC]
• Gender disparities within the response to COVID-19 [Julia Smith, SFU]
• Impact of COVID-19 on mental health [Lara Aknin, SFU]
