Welcome to Session 6: Social & Economic Impacts

COVID-19 has impacted our social lives in a number of ways with school cancellations, cancelations of mass gatherings including conferences, sporting events, and other entertainment events. We have also seen many detrimental economic effects from COVID-19 which has affected many businesses, individuals, and families, especially those who are the most vulnerable. In this lecture we will discuss how COVID-19 impacts our civil liberties, economy, school and work. We will explore ways to mitigate these potentially profound negative effects.

Learning Objectives

After completing this session, you will be able to:

Explain the major social and economic impacts COVID-19 has had both within the United States and around the world.

Guest Lecturers

Kevin Bardosh, PhD
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

Dr. Bardosh is an applied medical anthropologist and implementation scientist focused on using social science and community engagement to improve public health delivery and policy. Most of his work, across more than 20 countries, has focused on the epidemiology and control of human, animal and vector-borne infectious disease. Current applied public health projects (as of early-2020) include the control of: lymphatic filariasis (Nepal, India), malaria (Haiti), cholera and Ebola (Democratic Republic of Congo), sleeping sickness (Uganda), chronic kidney disease (Ecuador) and onchocerciasis (Benin). Kevin has a strong commitment to capacity building, interdisciplinary science, operational research, and health system strengthening. He has (co) authored >30 peer-reviewed publications, edited two books and held positions in departments of anthropology, global health, development studies, veterinary and environmental sciences, and epidemiology. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and numerous workshops and trainings. Current and past research has been funded by: Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, DFID, EU, NIH, UNICEF, USAID, TDR, CIHR, NERC, ACIAR, RTI and Carter Center. His recently edited book, Locating Zika: Social Change and Governance in an Age of Mosquito Pandemics (Routledge, 2019) explores the control of Aedes-borne diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Jake Vigdor PhD
Daniel J. Evans Professor of Public Policy & Governance
University of Washington

Jacob L. Vigdor joined the Evans School as a professor of public policy and governance in 2014. Professor Vigdor serves as director of the Seattle Minimum Wage Study and the Northwest Applied Public Policy Lab. He holds affiliations as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and an external fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London. At the Evans School, he specializes in teaching quantitative methods, with an emphasis on techniques for inferring the causal impact of policy interventions.

Professor Vigdor has published more than 60 scholarly articles and reviews on a range of topics in social policy, including education policy, immigration policy, housing policy, and racial and economic inequality. He is currently at work on a project evaluating the impact of the civil rights movement on racial inequality along multiple dimensions, correcting for economic dislocations brought about by the unrelated forces of trade and technological change over the past half-century.

Recorded Session (50 minutes)

If you missed the live session, watch the recording here.

Dr. Bardosh slides

Dr. Vigdor slides

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Optional Readings

These readings reinforce the lecture and may clarify any concepts from the lecture you might not understand. None