EP #107 - Public Health Update+COVID-19 in Italy Update

Today, a public health update with Esther Chernak, and a discussion of COVID-19 in Italy with Giuseppe Forino.

Dr. Esther Chernak.  Esther is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, and has a position in the Drexel University College of Medicine. She is the director of the Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication at Drexel.

Prior to joining the Drexel faculty in 2010, Dr. Chernak worked at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health for over 25 years.

 

Dr Giuseppe Forino is Senior Research Associate at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK. 

Giuseppe is Italian and is a human geographer by background, working at the intersection of society and disaster risk management, including disaster risk and response, climate change adaptation, socioeconomic impact assessment, community action, policy and governance dimensions. His areas of expertise are Italy, and Australia, with a recent interest for Ecuador and Vietnam. Giuseppe edited the book "Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters: Trends in Theory and Practice" (Routledge, 2018) with Lina Calandra and Sara Bonati.