To participate in the event, please register via Zoom. 

To suggest additional topics or speakers, please email Taylor Ricketts.

This Earth Week panel discussion will showcase perspectives on COVID-19 from Gund Fellows and Affiliates, including reports on preliminary research, and provide a forum for sharing promising ideas and opportunities for collaborative work. Topics include food insecurity, disease ecology, mental health, Sustainable Development Goals, rebuilding our economy and more.

Confirmed panelists include:

--Meredith Niles (Fellow, CALS), who is co-leading a national survey on food insecurity related to the pandemic.

--Chris Danforth (Fellow, Complex Systems) who has tracked coronavirus trends on social media, and the pandemic’s dramatic reduction of global happiness.

--Stephanie Seguino (Fellow, CAS), who is interested in equity issues regarding patterns of infection, as well as impacts of economic stimulus.

--Brendan Fisher (Fellow, RSENR), who is analyzing the pandemic’s effect on global progress toward the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

--Luz de Wit (Postdoctoral Fellow, RSENR), who studies the ecology of novel infectious diseases, including how they jump from other species to people.

--Jon Erickson (Fellow, RSENR), who is working on economic inequality, rebuilding a sustainable economy, and the pandemic’s climate impacts.

 The COVID-19 panel on April 21 is one of several Gund-sponsored events occurring in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

Learn more and apply now to the Gund COVID-19 Rapid Research Fund.