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The COVID-19 pandemic took the world by surprise. While the first documented case was in December of 2019, it would take just three months before the World Health Organization (WHO) would declare that COVID-19 was a pandemic. As of March 2022, COVID-19 has been officially responsible for more than 6 million deaths.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, many are drawn to the parallels with the 1918 influenza pandemic. Both are respiratory diseases caused by a virus, could spread from casual close contact, and reached most parts of the globe within months. The case mortality rates for both pandemics are higher than a typical seasonal influenza, with the 1918 influenza pandemic killing tens of millions worldwide. In both pandemics, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) like social distancing and mask wearing were used to control the spread, though in 1918 the restrictions were far less stringent. These parallels have renewed interest in understanding the health and economic effects of the 1918 pandemic.
This talk will survey the literature on the 1918 influenza pandemic, with a particular focus on understanding its health and economic effects. It will begin by providing an overview of key contextual and epidemiological details. Karen Clay will then examine spatial variation in the effects of the pandemic, including spatial variation in mortality and in the associated economic effects. The factors underlying this variation, including the role of non-pharmaceutical interventions will be discussed. Throughout the talk she will highlight important areas for future work.
Prof. Dr. Karen Clay is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College. She holds courtesy appointments at the Tepper School of Business and in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, is a Senior Fellow at the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon, is an affiliated faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Law, and is a research associate at the NBER. Professor Clay’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Sloan Foundation, and the Heinz Foundation. Her work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, and American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, Karen Clay was an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and her B.A. in Economics and Math from the University of Virginia.
The keynote is one of two public lectures during the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space's IRS Spring Academy 2022. The IRS Spring Academy is a yearly format similar to a PhD summer school but, as the name suggests, taking place in spring. It is an international and interdisciplinary format that provides spots for 25 participants, typically doctoral students but also post-doctoral researchers in the early phase of their careers. The overarching aim of the IRS Spring Academy is to support qualification projects which seek to explore the spatial dimension of societally relevant topics. In particular we seek to stimulate debates at the intersections of disciplines and seek to promote academics who wish to conduct research with a spatial perspective. The IRS Spring Academy is dedicated to stimulate conceptual debates around a spatial perspective and to support new methodological knowledge that is required to conduct the related empirical investigations. Moreover, the IRS Spring Academy is a brokerage event that supports participants to build up personal networks and it provides feedback from acknowledged seniors for researchers at the early stage of their careers.
Each IRS Spring Academy will take four intensive days of collaboration, discussion and exchange. The program combines different elements and thereby offers plenty of opportunities to debate conceptual issues and methodological challenges as well as to engage in a critical, yet constructive and supportive dialogue.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) acts as a local cooperation partner in 2022.
Hinweise zur Teilnahme:
Participation is free of charge. Please note that the time is 4 PM UTC+1
Register here for the public lecture via Zoom
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jqWY0NS0R0qvu0R3ULXXrA
Termin:
31.05.2022 16:00 - 18:00
Anmeldeschluss:
30.05.2022
Veranstaltungsort:
Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space
Online
Erkner
Brandenburg
Deutschland
Zielgruppe:
Journalisten, Wissenschaftler
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Relevanz:
international
Sachgebiete:
Geschichte / Archäologie, Medizin, Wirtschaft
Arten:
Konferenz / Symposion / (Jahres-)Tagung, Seminar / Workshop / Diskussion, Vortrag / Kolloquium / Vorlesung
Eintrag:
24.05.2022
Absender:
Dr. Felix Müller
Abteilung:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Veranstaltung ist kostenlos:
ja
Textsprache:
Englisch
URL dieser Veranstaltung: http://idw-online.de/de/event71758
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