Pandemic Perspectives

This documentary was filmed remotely using local film crews during the Omicron variant outbreak and takes the viewer on a captivating journey through a spectrum of core societal issues directly illuminated by the COVID-19 pandemic—education, science communication, politics, the environment and societal values—through short, carefully-edited clips featuring 32 experts from around the world (see the list below).

Below is a list of the 32 experts who have participated in Pandemic Perspectives:

Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, University of Michigan

Ann-Sophie Barwich, Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University Bloomington

Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology, University of Queensland

Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies, UCLA

Christopher Celenza, James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Patricia Churchland, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, UC San Diego

Lorraine Daston, Director Emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

John Dunn, Emeritus Professor of Political Thought, University of Cambridge

John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Egenis, University of Exeter

Charles Foster, Professor of Law and Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

Richard Frank, Director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy; Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution; Professor of Health Economics at Harvard Medical School

Michael Frazer, Associate Professor in Political and Social Theory, University of East Anglia

Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University

Joanna Haigh, Professor of Physics, Imperial College London

Brian Hie, Stanford Science Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine

Andy Hoffman, Holcim (US), Inc. Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan

Rush Holt, Former US Congressman, Current Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study

Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus, UC Berkeley

Paul Kahn, Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr . Center for International Human Rights, Yale University

Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University

Fyodor Kondrashov, Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

Stephen Kosslyn, President, Active Learning Sciences; Founder and CAO Foundry College; Founding Dean Minerva Schools; Former Dean of Social Sciences Harvard University

Darrin McMahon, Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College

Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale University

Miguel Nicolelis, Professor in Neuroscience, Duke University

Caroline Paunov, Senior Economist and Head of Secretariat for the Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy, OECD

Alexandre Quintanilha, Member of Portuguese Parliament; Former Director of the Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, University of Porto

Teofilo Ruiz, Distinguished Research Professor of History, UCLA

Stephen Scherer, Chief of Research at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

John Tregoning, Reader in Respiratory Infections, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College

Gavin Yamey, Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University

Yong Zhao, Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education, University of Kansas & Professor in Educational Leadership, Melbourne Graduate School of Education