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What are we learning from COVID-19 and how can we prepare for a future pandemic?

As global coronavirus cases rise and we experience a second wave, there is an increasing need to address biopreparednes…

In our last panel from Nextopic: Future of Pandemics, we will be learning about the various efforts it takes to eradicate a disease. Why are vaccines important and when can we realistically expect on…

These days we are all anxious about contracting COVID-19 from any surface we touch. Some of us even use hand sanitizer after every single thing we touch, so in this chaos how will we reach some sembl…

It’s been almost a year since we’ve been introduced to COVID-19 and since that day we’ve all been asking ourselves the same thing: When and how does this pandemic end? One possible solution is the di…

Is it possible to create a universal vaccine?⁠ If yes, this will change the lives of thousands if not millions of people. Find out the answer from immune engineer extraordinaire Sarah Ives, the Direc…

Join us on this sub-session from Nextopic: Future of Pandemics, where digital epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Radin, fake news researcher Dr. Khudejah Ali, and emergency medicine doctor Dr. Adnan Hussain…

Have you ever wondered how frontline healthcare workers are navigating the COVID-19 outbreak? ⁠
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“So the first case of COVID-19 was identified on January 21st in the US. I work in the Amita system whi…

During the pandemic, we’ve all seen false stories on social media about how drinking alcohol can protect you against COVID-19 or how 5G mobile networks cause the spread of the virus. While these fake…

Have you ever wondered how COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases are tracked in our communities? In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Radin, an epidemiologist at the Scripps Research Translational Institu…

In the pièce de résistance of our first sub-session from Nextopic: Future of Pandemics, 'Analyzing an Epidemic', sociologist and political economist Dr. Mauro Guillén, historian of early modern medic…

Sociologist and political economist, Dr. Mauro Guillén joins us for a talk on the sociological and business impacts of the pandemic. Will people want to live in cities in the future?How does globaliz…

Historian of early modern medicine, Dr. Nükhet Varlık takes us on a trip through past pandemics, shedding light on the Black Death of 1346, the Spanish Flu of 1918, and the dynamic relationship betwe…

Clinical psychologist and author of ‘The Psychology of Pandemics’, Dr. Steven Taylor explores the psychological impact of the COVID-19 outbreak through modern and historical lenses. Does the hoarding…

It’s no secret that COVID-19 has severely stressed the healthcare system both in the US and abroad. America has been enacting new policies and applying short-term solutions during this time in order …