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麻豆社 has compiled a list of experts who are able to speak on the many impacts of COVID-19. We will continue to add to this list in the coming days and weeks.

Employer and employee change - shorter workweeks, productivity, basic income and the Canadian Employee Resource Benefit聽
麻豆社 Expert: Dr. Karen Foster, Associate Professor; Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Research Specialties: Economy, work and development, knowledge, science and expertise, political economy, research methods, rural communities, social policy, social statistics and Atlantic Canada
Contact:听karen.foster@dal.ca

Impacts of COVID-19 on businesses, pandemic marketing strategies and business recovery
麻豆社 Expert:听Dan Shaw, Senior Instructor, Director of MBA Programs, Rowe School of Business.
Research Specialties:聽Global marketing, impact of labour disputes on consumer spending and consumer habits.聽
Contact:听Dan.Shaw@dal.ca聽and 902-494-6146.聽

Legal impacts and questions related to COVID-19
麻豆社 Expert: Wayne MacKay, Professor Emeritus of Law, Yogis and Keddy Chair in Human Rights Law.
Research Specialties: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, cyberbullying, education law, human rights, humanitarian law, public policy analysis, public law and public interest.
Contact:听Wayne.Mackay@dal.ca聽and 902-483-7810.

Impacts of COVID-19 measures on聽criminalized individuals
麻豆社 Expert:听Dr. Adelina Iftene, Assistant Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law, Health Law Institute.聽
Research Specialties:听Prison law and prisoners鈥� rights, criminal law and criminal justice, sentencing, evidence, charter rights.聽
Contact:听aiftene@dal.ca聽and 902-494-1296

Political impacts of COVID-19 (Canadian and American)
麻豆社 Expert: Lori Turnbull, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science.
Research Specialties: Canadian parliamentary governance, political ethics, elections, electoral systems, and public engagement.
Contact:听lturnbul@dal.ca聽and 902-494-6605.

Effects on travel industry
麻豆社 Expert: Lorne Sheehan, Professor, Rowe School of Business,聽School for Resource and Environmental Studies聽
Research Specialties: Tourism and travel, Destination management, Stakeholder management, and Sustainable development.
Contact:听Lorn@dal.ca聽or 902-402-8067

Food sovereignty,聽security,聽and sustainability
麻豆社 Expert: Dr. Kathleen Kevany, Associate Professor, Business and Social Sciences Faculty of Agriculture.
Research Specialties: Food sovereignty and sustainability, Sustainable diets and individual and community well-being
Contact:听聽kkevany@dal.ca聽and 902-986-8477

Food security, food supply chains and food trade
麻豆社 Expert: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Professor, Food Distribution and Policy, Faculties of Management and Agriculture.
Research Specialties: Food distribution, food policy, food safety, food security, traceability.
Contact:听sylvain.charlebois@dal.ca聽and 902-222-4142.

Rural well-being
麻豆社 Expert: Dr. Kathleen Kevany, Associate Professor, Business and Social Sciences Faculty of Agriculture.
Research Specialties: Community building, appreciative problem solving and fostering mental, emotional and physical well-being
Contact:听聽kkevany@dal.ca聽and 902-986-8477

Economic Impacts
麻豆社 Expert: Dr. Lars Osberg, Professor, Department of Economics.
Research Specialties: Labour economics, income and wealth distribution.
Contact:听lars.osberg@dal.ca聽and 902-494-6988

Mental wellness (youth and adult) 鈥� Psychology and Psychiatry
麻豆社 Expert: Dr. Simon Sherry, Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry.
Research Specialties: Clinical psychology, depression, anxiety, personality, perfectionism, psychopathology, suicide, eating disorders, alcohol problems.
Contact:听Simon.Sherry@dal.ca and 902-494-7719/ 902-789-9419.

麻豆社 Expert: Dr. Michael Ungar, Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience; Professor, School of Social Work.
Research Specialties: Child and adolescent mental health, family therapy, ecological social work, program evaluation, cross-cultural diversity research, delinquency, child development, social constructionism.
Contact:听michael.ungar@dal.ca聽and 902-229-0434.

麻豆社 Expert: Dr. E. Adriana Wilson, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Research Specialties: Positive psychiatry, mindfulness, emotions, attachment, psychotherapy
Contact:听adriana.wilson@dal.ca聽or 902-407-6600

Social and Cultural Implications and Activism
麻豆社 Expert: Tari Ajadi, doctoral student, MacEachen Institute Junior Fellow
Student Research Scholar, Healthy Populations Institute, Department of Political Science
Research Specialties: Canadian politics, social justice and inequality, marginalized communities, health policy and social movements.
Contact:听tariajadi@dal.ca聽or (778) 230-0020

Implications of COVID-19 on vulnerable and marginalized communities and populations
麻豆社 Expert: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor, Department of International Development Studies.
Research Specialties: Global health, North Korea, Cuban development, activism and social justice.
Contact:听huish@dal.ca聽and 902-494-2979.

Expert:聽Dr. Ingrid Waldron, Associate Professor,聽School of Nursing, Chair, 麻豆社 Black Faculty & Staff Caucus
Research Specialties:聽Medical sociology, sociology of health and illness, mental illness in black Canadian, Immigrant and Indigenous communities and environmental health inequities
Contact:听iwaldron@Dal.ca聽and 902-494-4267

麻豆社 Expert: Dr. OmiSoore Dryden, Associate Professor, James R. Johnston (JRJ) Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology
Research Specialties: Black Canadian studies, Black health equity, anti-Black racism and health outcomes, blood donation systems, HIV & AIDS, medical education and health humanities, and Black Feminist/Black Queer diasporic analytics.
Contact:听omisoore.dryden@dal.ca

麻豆社 Expert: Tari Ajadi, doctoral student, MacEachen Institute Junior Fellow
Student Research Scholar, Healthy Populations Institute, Department of Political Science
Research Specialties: Canadian politics, social justice and inequality, marginalized communities, health policy and social movements.
Contact:听tariajadi@dal.ca聽or (778) 230-0020

Maintaining physical wellness during COVID-19
麻豆社 Expert: Dr. Lori Dithurbide, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance
Research Specialties: Psychosocial aspects of sports, group dynamics, teammate efficacy, team performance, and group behavior.
Contact:听lori.dithurbide@dal.ca

Emergency preparedness plans (municipal, provincial and federal)
麻豆社 Expert: Dr. Kevin Quigley, Professor, Director, MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance.
Research Specialties: Public sector risk and crisis management, strategic management and critical infrastructure protection.
Contact: Please contact Warren MacDougald at 647-823-3309 or聽Warren.McDougald@Dal.Cato set up an interview with Dr. Quigley.

Pharmacy practices during COVID-19
麻豆社 Expert: Dr. James Barker,聽Professor; Herbert S. Lamb Chair in Business Education; Research Lead 麻豆社 Safe Assured; Founding Fellow, MacEachen Institute for Public Policy & Governance, Rowe School of Business
Research Specialties:听Organizational safety, high-risk organizations, leadership theories, organization theories, complexity theory, organizational behavior, symbolic management, and organizational change
Contact:听J.Barker@Dal.ca辞谤听902-222-5237

Dental practices/care during COVID-19
Dental hygiene and nutrition
麻豆社 expert:听Dr. Leigha Rock, director and associate professor, School of Dental Hygiene
Research specialties: Preventative oral health care, nutrition, oral cancer
Contact:听Please contact Cheryl Bell at 902.266.9403 or聽cheryl.bell@dal.ca聽if you would like an interview with Dr. Rock.

Emergency dental care and new pandemic protocol
麻豆社 expert:聽Dr. Chris Lee,聽assistant professor and director, Department of Dental Clinical Sciences
Research specialties:听Emergency dental care,聽dental care of medically complex patients, access to dental care for underserviced populations
Contact:听Please contact Cheryl Bell at 902.266.9403 or聽cheryl.bell@dal.ca聽if you would like an interview with Dr. Lee.

Oral and maxillofacial surgery
麻豆社 expert:听Dr. Ben Davis, dean of the Faculty of Dentistry and professor
Research specialties:听Oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral sedation, emergency dental care
Contact:聽Please contact Cheryl Bell at 902.266.9403 or聽cheryl.bell@dal.ca聽if you would like an interview with Dr. Davis.

Cuban healthcare system and the exportation of medical services
麻豆社 Expert:听Dr. John Kirk, Professor, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies.
Research Specialties:听Cuban colonial times, Cuban cultural revolution, Latin American dictators.
Contact:听kirk@dal.ca聽and 902-494-1082/902-494-2544.

Machine learning needed for contact and other tracing technologies
麻豆社 Expert:听Dr. Thomas Trappenberg, Professor, Faculty of Computer Science聽
Research:听Computational neuroscience and machine learning.
Contact:听tt@cs.dal.ca听补苍诲听902-494-3087

麻豆社 Expert:听Dr. Sageev Orre, Professor, Faculty of computer Science聽
Research Specialties:听Machine learning, deep learning, computational creativity, and deep learning models and tools for music, art & text generation
Contact:听sageev@dal.ca聽or 902-494-1498

If you are looking to speak with one of our researchers directly working on COVID-19 research, please note that their schedules are extremely full and we will do our best to fill your request or direct you to the best point of contact.

We ask that you please keep in mind that it is at the faculty member鈥檚 discretion as to whether they have the availability to accommodate your request.聽