2020 Policy Salon: Rapid Research Talks on COVID-19
This session is part of the 2020 Policy Salon on the theme, "The Importance of Good Governance in the COVID-19 Era, from the Local to the Global."
*This Zoom meeting is intended for UBC students, faculty, staff, and alumni only. The Zoom meeting link will be provided upon registration.
Join this session to learn from UBC faculty, students, and alumni as they share rapid research talks on the upstream determinants of effective COVID-19 response, democratic health communications, governing labour migration during COVID-19 in Nepal, and a comparison of COVID-19 responses of BC, Quebec, Oregon, and Florida. Each team has 12 minutes to present and 8 minutes to answer questions from attendees.
Moderator: Professor George Hoberg, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) Graduate Program Director, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Speakers and Research Talks:
“Upstream determinants of effective COVID-19 response: concepts, definitions, analysis, evaluation” with Director Peter Berman and Professor Chris Lovato, School of Population and Public Health; Professor Max Cameron (Political Science), former Acting Director, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
“Democratic health communications during Covid-19” with Professor Heidi Tworek (School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; History), Eseohe Ojo (MPPGA alumni), Sean Wu (MPPGA alumni), and Victoria Ker (MPPGA student)
- This presentation will look at how nine democracies around the world have communicated during Covid-19. We explore how communications have worked as a non-pharmaceutical intervention and suggest principles to improve pandemic communications in democratic ways.
“Governing labour migration during COVID-19: Views from Nepal” with Professor Sara Shneiderman (School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Anthropology) and Jeevan Baniya, Assistant Director of Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility at Social Science Baha, Nepal
- This presentation will explore labour migration during COVID-19 in Nepal while touching on broader themes of labour migration and ‘good governance’ in times of political transition.
“A comparison of COVID-19 responses of BC, Quebec, Oregon, and Florida” with Clinton Mix and Jessika Woroniak, MPPGA students
- This presentation will describe a comparative analysis of policy instruments employed in response to COVID-19 with the aim of reducing the spread of transmission. We discuss the similarities and differences in the approaches of 4 jurisdictions: British Columbia, Quebec, Oregon, and Florida. Specifically, we explore 3 key policy areas: school closures, restaurant / bar closures, and gathering size restrictions.
Moderator's Bio:
George Hoberg is Professor at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Graduate Program Director of the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program. He specializes in environmental and natural resource policy and governance. His research interests include environmental policy, energy policy, forest policy, and more generally the design of policies and institutions to promote sustainability. His current research focuses on the clean energy transformation. He has published on the role of science in policy-making and international constraints on domestic policy autonomy. He has also written books on BC and Canadian forest policy, environmental policy in the US, toxic substances regulation, and edited two books on comparative Canada-US policies and the US influence on Canada.
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Co-hosted by: The School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), University of British Columbia
