Berkeley Conversations May 11-18

May 11, 2020

 Communications & Public Affairs

Dear campus community,

Following is the schedule for upcoming "Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19,” a series of live, online events featuring faculty experts from across the UC Berkeley campus who are sharing what they know, and what they are learning about the pandemic. New events are being added regularly. If you miss the live presentations, everything is being recorded and made available for viewing at any time on the Berkeley Conversations website

Live webcast: Monday, May 11, 2–3 p.m. (Pacific)

Nordics and COVID-19: Public health, economic and public policy responses

Nordic countries are regularly cited as exemplars of healthy and resilient societies. Join us for a virtual conversation comparing and contrasting the Nordic public health, economic, and public policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the responses by Denmark and Sweden, and consider learnings that may be drawn by the U.S. Hosted by Dr. Laura Tyson, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, the event will feature Dr. Robert Strand, Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business and leading expert on Nordic sustainable business and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and Dr. Ann Keller, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management and leading expert on pandemic responses.

This event is sponsored by the UC Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business, the UC Berkeley Department of Scandinavian, the Institute of European Studies, the Peder Sather Center, and Nordic Talks at Berkeley.

Live webcast: Wednesday, May 13, 10–11 a.m. (Pacific)

COVID 19 - Tracking, data privacy, and getting the numbers right

As plans for re-opening businesses, communities, and schools emerge, mechanisms to track the pervasiveness of the SARS-COV-2 virus become increasingly critical to consider. In this conversation led by Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and Professor of Physics, Berkeley faculty will present their recent research findings about the virus and COVID-19 infections and death rates. They will discuss the ways that they are using data to better understand how many people are infected and actually dying from COVID-19, whether infections and deaths are going up or down, and how much we can afford to increase mobility.  They also will address broader questions about what data we need, how to protect it using encryption, and how to improve the ways we track and limit the pandemic.

Featured speakers:

Shafi Goldwasser, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Uros Seljak, Professor of Physics, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) Senior Fellow.

Jacob Steinhardt, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

This conversation is sponsored by the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science

Live webcast: Monday, May 18 11 a.m.–12 p.m. (Pacific)

COVID-19: Digital and Telehealth Implications of COVID-19 and Social Distancing

Join us for a discussion of the role of digital technology and telehealth amidst the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of public health, medicine, and mental health. Panelists will discuss how we can leverage technology to reach people in need during social distancing as well as the challenges of reaching low-resourced communities with lower digital literacy.

Adrian Aguilera, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Francisco.

Courtney Lyles, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Berkeley Public Health.

Elaine Khoong, MD, is a general internist and assistant professor of medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Heather Ladov, LCSW, is a Mental Health Supervisor at La Clinica de la Raza, Casa del Sol in Oakland.

David Lindeman, (moderator) PhD, is Director Health, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), UC Berkeley, and Director, Center for Technology and Aging (CTA).

Finally, the Institute for South Asia Studies has launched its own series, “COVID-19: Reflections from South Asia,” featuring UC Berkeley faculty in conversation with scholars, public intellectuals, health care providers, business leaders, journalists, and others in South Asia. Their next event, COVID at Home: Gender, Class and the Domestic Economy, is scheduled for May 19th, and will feature the Dean of Social Sciences, Prof. Raka Ray in conversation with Sociologist Prof. Amita Baviskar on the deepening of social inequalities in India. Be sure to check the Institute’s webs ite for information on the remaining events.

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