IU experts are ready to talk about COVID-19
IU researchers, scientists and clinicians are available to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on a wide range of topics, including our physical and mental health, the economy, politics, and globalization.
- Arts
- Alain Barker: Music entrepreneurship, music careers and arts organization development.
- Monika Herzig: Music industry and arts administration.
- Jon Kay: Self-employed workers in the arts, craft and culture sector.
- Ursula Kuhar: Arts funding, community arts engagement.
- Doug Noonan: Policy and economic issues related to cultural affairs and the arts labor force.
- Michael Rushton: Arts funding and management, nonprofit organizations and local development.
- Business and the economy
- Kyle Anderson: Economic impact.
- Amrou Awaysheh: Supply chains.
- R. Andrew Butters: Economic impact.
- Sanya Carley: Energy insecurity.
- Helen Colby: Changes in consumer behavior, how marketers can effectively communicate to customers.
- Jodee Ellett: local food supply chains, farmers markets and farm-to-consumer sales
- Barbara Flynn: Supply chains.
- Evan Jordan: Tourism and travel.
- Wendy Leutert: Chinese economy and U.S.-China economic relations.
- Elizabeth Malatestinic: Workplace issues, remote work.
- Phil Powell: Economic impact, recession.
- Carol Rogers: Census, population, demographics and the Indiana economy.
- Kim Saxton: Business and marketing strategies.
- Timothy Slaper: Industries and workforces, economic development, trade and foreign investment.
- Shellye Suttles: Food systems, food access, food policy and agricultural transportation.
- Mohan Tatikonda: Supply chains.
- Clinical care
- Cole Beeler: COVID-19 spread, prevention.
- Graham Carlos: Clinical care.
- Aaron Carroll: Personal risk, masking, vaccines, U.S. response, hospital preparedness and the health care system.
- Communication and misinformation
- Minjeong Kang: Corporate crisis communications, employee communication and relations.
- Elaine Monaghan: Credible information and news literacy.
- Esi Thompson: Health risk and crisis communication.
- Kurt Zemlicka: Public understanding of science, public skepticism toward scientific research.
- Education
- Michael Courtney: Online education.
- Chris Foley: Online education and remote learning.
- Ali Jafari: E-learning and pedagogical methods.
- Robert Kunzman: Homeschooling.
- Anastasia Morrone: Information technology in classroom learning and collaborative workspaces.
- Barbara Pierce: School safety and wellness.
- Sarah Smith-Robbins: Remote instruction.
- Equity
- Jessica Calarco: Child care, education.
- Darryl Heller: Civil rights and social justice.
- Elaine Hernandez: Inequities in health care.
- D. Eric Schansberg: Economic inequalities and health care policy.
- Joshua Wells: Digital divides.
- Historical context
- Colin Elliott: Plagues in the ancient world.
- Rebecca Spang: Influence of plagues and pandemics on politics and revolutions.
- Mental health and relationships
- Justin Garcia: Dating, sex, relationships and technology.
- Amanda Gesselman: Dating and technology.
- Edward Hirt: Mental health issues, including social psychology, decision-making, consumer judgment, political ideology and self-esteem.
- Jacek Kolacz: Effects of trauma, risk, resilience on health over time.
- Gregory Lewis: Emotional and psychological well-being, stress, trauma and panic.
- Zoe Peterson: Sexual assault, consent.
- Beth Trammell: How to have hard conversations with kids, grief/loss in kids, and how to help parents/teachers communicate.
- Philanthropy
- Brad Fulton: Revenues of religions congregations and community-based nonprofits.
- Beth Gazley: Nonprofits.
- David King: Religious organizations and charitable giving.
- Jamie Levine Daniel: Nonprofit donations.
- Una Osili: International trends in giving and African American philanthropy.
- Laurie Paarlberg: Changing nature of community philanthropy.
- Patrick Rooney: Giving in recessions, motivations for giving and trends in charitable giving.
- Bill Stanczykiewicz: Fundraising and philanthropic leadership.
- Politics and policy
- Kenneth Dau-Schmidt: Unions, collective bargaining, employment law, employment contracts, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, workers compensation, unemployment compensation and pensions.
- David Konisky: State politics, environmental politics and policy, public opinion on energy.
- Sharon Kandris: Use of data and research to measure the needs and improve the health of a community.
- Kosali Simon: Economic analysis of health insurance and health care policy.
- Nicolas Terry: Medicine, law and information technology.
- Public Health
- Shandy Dearth: Infectious disease surveillance, emergency preparedness planning and public health informatics
- Thomas Duszynksi: Infectious disease epidemiology, field epidemiology and public health surveillance
- Graham McKeen: Disease surveillance and control.
IU's Chief Health Officer
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