Breaking News Experts
COVID-19
The following is a list of University of Toronto experts who can comment on a variety of issues related to COVID-19.
Alexandra Rahr
Bissell-Heyd Lecturer in American Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
- Campus
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 – Pandemics as a natural disaster from a cultural perspective
- Natural disasters in American History
Office: n/a
Email: alexandra.rahr@utoronto.ca
Alison Thompson
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor of Public Health Services
Professor of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Emergency Preparedness and Global Health Security
- Ethics and pandemics
- Ethics and public health
- Ethics and vaccines
- Prioritization of scare resources
- Professional ethics and pharmacy
- Public engagement
- Public health ethics
- Public understanding of risk and vaccination
- Social and ethics issues in health
Office: 416-978-8824
Mobile: 416-819-6581
Website
Email: a.thompson@utoronto.ca
Ambarish Chandra
Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Airlines
- Competition policy
- COVID-19 – U.S.-Canada border shutdown
- Cross-border travel and shopping
- Economics
- Gasoline and oil prices
- Oil and gas
- US-Canada border
- US-Canada exchange rate
Office: 416-978-7138
Email: ambarish.chandra@rotman.utoronto.ca
Anna Banerji
Director of Global and Indigenous Health, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 – Helped with SARS as an infection disease specialist
- COVID-19 – state of emergency in the U.S.
- Health of Syrian refugees
- Health policy
- Indigenous health
- International health
- Inuit health
- Refugee health
- Tropical medicine / infectious disease
- Why is there a spike in refugees needing assistance
Office: 416-978-8319
Email: anna.banerji@utoronto.ca
Barry Pakes
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health, Nunavut
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Arctic and inuit health
- COVID response
- Global health
- Global health ethics
- Pandemic influenza
- Primary care
- Public health
- Public health education
- Public health ethics
- Testing barriers and asymptomatic patients
- Tobacco control
- Vaccinology
Office: Not Available
Home: 416-328-5567
Mobile: 647-328-5567
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
Charles Pascal
Professor, Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Child care crisis
- COVID-19 – Online learning
- COVID-19 Preparation required for schools and daycares to reopen
- Former deputy minister of education in Ontario
- How COVID has improved education globally
- Policy and education
- Seniority hiring rules
Office: 416-716-7245
Email: charles.pascal@utoronto.ca
Dan Breznitz
Co-Director, Innovation Policy Lab
Munk Chair, Innovation Studies
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 – Role of innovation and impact on global production
- Economic policy
- Innovation policy
- Notion of a fourth industrial revolution
- Trade (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
Office: 416-946-0584
Email: dan.breznitz@utoronto.ca
David Soberman
Professor of Marketing
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Advertising
- Alliances
- Automotive
- Big data
- Brand management
- Business development
- Business models
- Business strategy
- Canada
- Competition policy
- Competitive strategy
- Consumer products
- Corporate social responsibility
- Corporate strategy
- COVID-19 – Pandemic profiteers
- COVID-19 Impediments keeping people online and out of stores
- COVID-surcharge
- Creative industries
- Data-driven decision making
- Distribution channels
- Entrepreneurial management
- Europe
- Food industry
- General management
- Global economic impact of COVID-19
- innovation
- Leadership
- Management innovation
- Market research
- Marketing
- Marketing strategy
- Media and entertainment
- Pricing
- Retail
- Sales
- Supply & demand
- Technological innovation
- Telecommunications
- The franchise that was Kobe Bryant
- The importance of ecommerce during pandemics
- United States
Office: 416-978-5445
Mobile: 416-420-4876
Languages: English and French
Website
Email: david.soberman@rotman.utoronto.ca
David White
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Community-based research
- COVID-19 – How hospitals are handling the demand
- Family medicine
- Health promotion
- Illness prevention
- Lessons learned from SARS
Office: 416-223-0555 (clinical)
Mobile: 416-998-7082
Email: david.white@utoronto.ca
David Zweig
Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
Chair, Department of Management
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Career management
- Collaboration and communications technologies in the workplace
- COVID- 19 How will the workforce change post-pandemic
- Electronic performance monitoring
- Employee motivation
- Fairness in the workplace
- Hiring
- Is the open concept office dead
- Knowledge hiding in organizations
- Knowledge management
- Privacy
- Tips on how to be productive working from home
- Workplace issues
- Workplace surveillance
Office: 416-287-5613
Languages: Hebrew
Email: zweig@utsc.utoronto.ca
Dionne Aleman
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Director, Medical Operations Research Lab
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 – Spread of pandemics in urban areas
- COVID-19 Second wave of the virus
- Hospital planning
- How to predict who will need ventilators
- Mathematical models for cancer treatment planning (radiation therapy and focal ablation)
- Mathematical models for operating room scheduling
- Mathematical models for pandemic prediction and planning
- Medical decision-making
- Pandemic models and contact tracing
Office: 416-978-6780
Website
Email: aleman@mie.utoronto.ca
Enid Slack
Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Intergovernmental transfers
- Municipal finance – revenues and expenditures of municipal governments
- Municipal restructuring
- Municipalities dealing with financial effects of COVID-19
- New sources of municipal revenue
- Property tax reform
- Property tax; property tax reform; intergovernmental transfers; user fees; new sources of municipal revenue
- User fees
Office: 416-946-0328
Email: tomas.hachard@utoronto.ca
Grace Skogstad
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian federalism
- Canadian politics
- COVID-19 Impact on the public perception of farmers
- EU-US agricultural trade conflicts
- Mexico-Canada agreement for temporary farm workers
- Politics of biofuels policies in Canada
- Politics of biofuels policies in the European Union
- Politics of biofuels policies in the United States
- Politics of Canadian agricultural policy
- Politics of genetically modified food
Office: 416-978-6156
Home: 416-964-2827
Email: skogstad@chass.utoronto.ca
Harald Bathelt
Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 – Economic impact of travel restrictions & border closures
- Economic geography
- Economic globalization and international trade fairs
- Economic/Technology/Innovation policy
- German political economy
- Regional economic development and industry clusters
- Regional/National innovation and technological change
Office: 416-946-0183
Home: 416-597-2099
Languages: German
Website
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
Isaac Bogoch
Associate Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Anosmia
- Clinical
- Epidemiology
- Global health
- How protests may lead to an increase in outbreaks
- Infectious diseases
- Public health
- Tropical medicine
Office: 416-294-2773
Email: Isaac.bogoch@uhn.ca
Ito Peng
Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor,School of Public Policy and Governance, Faculty of Arts and Science
Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada’s approach to long-term care
- Child care policy
- East Asia/Asia Pacific public policy
- East-west comparisons
- Elder care policy
- Family and gender policies
- Fertility
- Japan
- Marriage and aging society
- Social policy
- South Korea
- System issues in long-term care
- Taiwan
- Women and migration
Office: 416-946-5902
Languages: Japanese
Email: ito.peng@utoronto.ca
Jennifer Lake
Lecturer, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Collaborative practice
- Drug safety
- How pharmacies can prepare
- Pharmacy practice
- Primary care
- Role of pharmacists in COVID-19 response
- Testing
Office: 416-946-5287
Mobile: 416-992-3761
Email: jennifer.lake@utoronto.ca
Kerry Bowman
Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of School of Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Cloning/de-extinction/artificial intelligence
- consumption of wild animals & diseases
- COVID-19 – pandemic and quarantine ethics
- COVID-19 Military report on long-term care facilities
- Environmental/climate change ethics
- Ethics of quarantine
- Gene editing/gene drive
- Genomic/genetic ethics
- Medical assistance in dying
- Physician assisted in dying/end of life
- Reproductive ethics
- Shortcomings in global health monitoring
- Zoonosis
Office: 416-586-4800, ext.2163
Home: 416-532-4594
Website
Email: kerry.bowman@utoronto.ca
Lisa Kramer
Professor of Finance
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Asset management
- Behavioural economics
- Business ethics
- Capital markets
- Consumer behaviour
- Corporate social responsibility
- COVID-19 – Economic impact
- COVID-19 – Trickle effect of the lockdown
- COVID-19 Economic reopening across the country
- COVID-surcharge
- Decision making
- Ethical investing
- Financial economics
- Financial investments
- Financial markets
- Mutual funds
- Non-profit sectors
- Passive investing
- Pharmaceuticals
- Portfolio management
- Psychology of investing
- Stock market
- Sustainability
Office: 416-978-2496, 905-569-4893
Website
Email: lkramer@rotman.utoronto.ca
Lynette Ong
Associate Professor of Political Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Authoritarian politics
- Canada-China relations
- COVID-19 impact on Chinese culture and cuisine
- COVID-19 outbreak impact on trade & international relations
- COVID-19 U.S.- China tension
- Human rights in China
- Political economy of China
- Politics and political economy in China
- Politics in Singapore and Malaysia
- Politics of China
- Protest and state repression in China
- Urbanization in China
Office: 416-978-6804
Languages: Mandarin, Chinese
Website
Email: lynette.ong@utoronto.ca
Michael Stepner
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of COVID-19
- Health economics
- Insurance and income supports
- Labour economics
- Taxation and redistribution
Office: N/A
Mobile: 617 888 3846
Languages: English, French (intermediate)
Website
Email: michael.stepner@utoronto.ca
Miriam Diamond
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Air and water pollution
- Cities
- Human exposure
- Impact of COVID-19 on climate change
- Indoor environment
- Toxic Chemicals
Office: 416-978-1586
Mobile: 416-573-2977
Website
Email: miriam.diamond@utoronto.ca
Peter Loewen
Professor of Political Science,
Former Director, School of Public Policy and Governance,
Affiliate, Centre for the Study of the United States
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-5120
Email: peter.loewen@utoronto.ca
Richard Powers
Associate Professor
National Academic Director, Directors Education Program and Governance Essentials Program
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Antitrust
- Argentina
- Automotive
- Brand management
- Brazil
- Business ethics
- Business law
- Business strategy
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Compensation
- Competition policy
- Competitive strategy
- Consumer behaviour
- Corporate corruption and fraud
- Corporate culture
- Corporate governance
- Corporate law
- Corporate social responsibility
- Corporate strategy
- COVID-19 – Closure of non-essential services
- COVID-19 – What a recession will mean for Canada
- Diversity
- Ethical investing
- Executive pay
- Family-owned businesses
- Impact of COVID-19 on sports teams and franchises
- Management innovation
- Marketing strategy
- Media and entertainment
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Non-profit sectors
- Retail
- Sectors thriving during the pandemic
- Social enterprises
- Sports marketing
- Talent management / employee retention
- The rise of the PPE industry
- United States
Office: 416-946-8610
Mobile: 416-268-7186
Email: richard.powers@rotman.utoronto.ca
Robert Bothwell
Professor of International Relations
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada-US relations
- Canadian foreign relations
- Canadian politics and political history
- COVID-19 – Canada’s history of border measures
- Impact of Ruth Bader Ginsburg death on election
- Trump & Trudeau on border control measures
Office: n/a
Languages: French, Formal Spanish
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca
Roger McIntyre
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Bipolar disorder
- Cognitive dysfunction
- Impact of pandemic on women's health
- Major depressive disorder
- Pharmacology
- Workplace depression
Office: 416-603-5279
Mobile: 416-669-5279
Website
Email: roger.mcintyre@uhn.ca
Steve Joordens
Professor of Psychology at U of T Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Attention
- Connecting psychology to world events
- Consciousness
- COVID-19 Isolation fatigue
- Family and interpersonal relationships
- How epidemics affect those with anxiety
- How physical distancing will forever change the ways we interact
- Memory
- Mental impact of isolation and quarantine
- Mental well-being
- Trauma
Office: (416) 287-7469
Email: joordens@utsc.utoronto.ca