EP #287 - 06.03.2021 - Mother & Daughter Reflect on a Pandemic Year

Today I welcome Sara McBride and Bernadette McBride back to COVIDCalls for a follow up on their lives and work in the 14 months since we first talked.

Bernadette McBride has a Masters in Nursing from Gonzaga University and a Masters in Health Education from Whitworth University. She is a registered Nurse Practitioner in Washington State, specializing in geriatric family practice. Bernadette formerly the owner of adult family homes, Legacy Management and Tranquility Life Care in the Tri-Cities for 25 years. For her first Master’s degree, she focused on death and bereavement of parents who lost children to SIDS.

Dr. Sara K. McBride has a Ph.D. in Media Studies from Massey University.  Sara has a master’s degree in Public Administration from University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, with a concentration in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. She is currently a Mendenhall Fellow at the U.S. Geological Survey, studying the communication of aftershock forecasts and earthquake early warning. Sara also has served 16 years as a practitioner in emergency management. She was part of the New Zealand’s H1N1 response in 2009.