Media in the Age of Contagions
September 26, 2018 | 10:00am – 1:00pm
10:00am – 10:10am – Welcoming remarks
- Nicco Mele, Director, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy; Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Ashish K. Jha, Dean for Global Strategy & K.T. Li Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Harvard Global Health Institute
- Provost Alan M. Garber, Chief Academic Officer, Harvard University; Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Economics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
10:10am – 10:30am – Keynote address
- Michael T. Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) all at the University of Minnesota; Regents Professor; McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health; Professor, Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Medicine
10:30am – 11:45am – Panel I – “The Risk of Rumors & Disinformation”
- Cameron Hickey, Technology Manager, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Journalist, cinematographer and software developer
- Aashka Dave, Research Reporter, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
- Peter Canellos, Editor-at-Large, POLITICO
Moderator: Heidi Legg, Director of Special Projects, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy
11:45am – 12pm – Break
12:00pm – 1:00pm – Panel II – “Challenges and Opportunities in Covering Infectious Disease Outbreaks”
- Karen Weintraub, Independent Health/Science journalist
- Lena Sun, National Reporter focusing on health, The Washington Post
- Michaeleen Doucleff, Reporter, NPR Science Desk and Goats and Soda, NPR’s Global Health and development blog (via Skype)
- Helen Branswell, Senior Writer for Infectious Diseases and Public Health, STAT
Moderator: Stefanie Friedhoff, Senior Editor; Nieman Fellow ’01; Assistant Director of Communications, Harvard Global Health Institute
1:00pm – 1:10pm – Closing remarks
- Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
- Setti Warren, Executive Director, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy; Former Mayor of Newton