COVID-19

Alexandra Rahr

Bissell-Heyd Lecturer in American Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

• Campus
  • St. George

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
• Department
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Public Health Sciences
• Centres
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics

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
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Rotman School of Management
• Department
  • Management

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, Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Medicine

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

Charles Pascal

Professor, Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science

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 Lie

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Computer Science
  • Electrical & Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

• Computer architecture
• Computer security
• Constitutional balancing of human rights and freedoms
• Improving efficiency of human contact tracing apps
• Mobile security
• Networks
• Operating systems

Office: 416-946-0251
Email: lie@eecg.utoronto.ca

David Soberman

Professor of Marketing

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Rotman School of Management

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

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
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Rotman School of Management
• Department
  • Management (UTSC)

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
• Department
  • Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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
  • St. George
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

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
  • St. George
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Political Science
• Department
  • Political Science

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Geography
  • Management
  • Political Science
• Centres
  • Asian Institute
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
  • Cities Centre

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, Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Medicine

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
  • St. George
• Department
  • Sociology

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

Janice Stein

Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Department of Political Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Border closures
• Conflict management and resolution
• Global order
• Iran
• Middle East

Office: 416-946-8908
Languages: French
Email: j.stein@utoronto.ca

Kerry Bowman

Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of School of Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
  • Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
  • School of Environment
• Centres
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics

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
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Rotman School of Management
• Department
  • Management (UTM)

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Global Affairs
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science
• Centres
  • Asian Institute

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Economics

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
  • St. George
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Earth Sciences
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• Behavioural economics and politics
• Canadian civil liberties
• U.S. foreign policy
• U.S. Politics

Office: 416-978-5120
Email: peter.loewen@utoronto.ca

Richard Powers

Associate Professor

National Academic Director, Directors Education Program and Governance Essentials Program

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Rotman School of Management

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• Canada-US relations
• Canadian foreign relations
• Canadian politics and political history
• COVID-19 – Canada’s history of border measures
• Trump & Trudeau on border control measures

Office: n/a
Languages: French, Formal Spanish
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca

Steve Joordens

Professor of Psychology at U of T Scarborough

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Psychology

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