Speaker: Malia Jones, associate scientist at the Applied Population Lab
Description: Explore the origins in March 2020 of Dear Pandemic, a group of scientists and health care workers to provide curated, comprehensive, and timely information about COVID-19 on social media. Track how the composition, collaborations and communications of Dear Pandemic have evolved over the past 14 months as the covid pandemic has spread, as control measures have evolved, as the disease has become politicized, and as vaccines have come to the fore. Get insights into the coming phase of “Pandexit” as covid dwindles and many angles of life return to near-normal.
Bio: Malia Jones is an associate scientist at the Applied Population Lab at UW-Madison and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of “Dear Pandemic.” She is a social epidemiologist with expertise in GIS methods. Her research focuses on the social and spatial determinants of health at the population level. She is especially
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In a novel effort to combat COVID-19 misinformation, a group of women researchers, including nurse scientists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), launched the Dear Pandemic social media campaign in March 2020. It delivers curated, comprehensive, and timely information about the COVID-19 pandemic in a question-and-answer format. Complex topics such as COVID-19 aerosol transmission, risk reduction strategies to avoid infection, and excess mortality are explained in common language and shared widely.
Now with more than 100,000 followers and accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, the campaign has an international and multilingual impact offering important public health insight via social media. An article in the journal
Black History of Wisconsin, Part 4: Still Rising
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This is the last of a four-part series exploring the history and struggles Black Wisconsinites have endured. Read
MILWAUKEE Growing up in Milwaukee, community organizer Angela Lang experienced “a tale of two cities.”
Lang, the executive director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC), loved living in the predominantly Black Merrill Park neighborhood. “It’s where I feel at home,” she said.
But she also saw how other people vilified her community, and felt the deep racial divides that existed between different parts of Milwaukee which remains one of the most segregated cities in the U.S.
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Dear Pandemic: Local researchers commit to COVID-19 facts
Local women putting pandemic facts in your fingertips
MILWAUKEE - Thrown into the deep end of the COVID-19 pandemic, at one time or another, many of us have found ourselves drowning in complicated information. One group of female experts has set out to change that transforming the way we seek and share facts. The World Health Organization has deemed parallel to the pandemic, something happening called an info-demic, said Dr. Amanda Simanek, UWM Associate Professor of Epidemiology.
Dr. Amanda Simanek
In the uncharted world of COVID-19, we ve sought out heroes in hospitals, in classrooms, even at grocery stores. But