Bridging Perspectives in COVID's Wake

Description

As we move beyond the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to examine thoughtfully both the health outcomes and policy decisions that shaped our collective response to the crisis. Structured around the book In COVID's Wake, co-authored by Princeton University's Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee, this flagship event will feature a fireside chat with the authors and panel discussions examining how scientific evidence, policy implementation, and public communication intersected during the pandemic.

These conversations will aim to build mutual understanding among leading public health, science, and policy experts, and identify lessons that can strengthen our response to future public health challenges.

This event is one part of a broader series of collaborations between Johns Hopkins University faculty and American Enterprise Institute scholars that seeks to foster constructive conversations across diverse perspectives and to root research and teaching with implications for the nation's common life in a broad range of points of views.

A video livestream will be available for those unable to attend in person.

Participants and agenda

Opening remarks (2 p.m.)

• Tony Mills, Director, Center for Technology, Science, and Energy, American Enterprise Institute
• Judd Walson, Robert E. Black Chair in International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Ron Daniels, President, Johns Hopkins University
• Robert Doar, President, American Enterprise Institute

Panel I: Fireside chat with Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee (2:30 p.m.)

• Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
• Stephen Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
• Yuval Levin, Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, The American Enterprise Institute (moderator)

Panel II: The Science-Policy Interface (3:30 p.m.)

• John Hellerstedt, Former Commissioner, Texas Department of State Health Services
• Nancy E. Kass, Deputy Director for Public Health, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
• Roger Pielke Jr., Senior Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute
• Emily E Ricotta, Assistant Professor, Uniformed Services University
• Lisa Margonelli, Senior Editor, Issues in Science and Technology (moderator)

Panel III: Governance and Decision-Making Frameworks (4:30 p.m.)

• Mahmud Farooque, Associate Director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University
• Amita Gupta, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Steven Teles, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
• Philip Wallach, Senior Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute
• William Howell, Dean, School of Government and Policy, Johns Hopkins University (moderator)