COVID-19 Working Group for Public Health and Social Sciences Research
Aaida A. Mamuji (York University Co-Leader)
Angela Chia-Chen Chen(Co-Leader)
National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research Network and the CONVERGE facility at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder
This COVID-19 Working Group for Public Health and Social Sciences Research is interested in issues of stigma, fear, discrimination, and backlash in light of COVID-19, as well as social countermeasures and emergency management actions that can be taken to address them. The group’s broad scope includes research interest in Sinophobia, stigma faced by frontline workers and those that have tested positive, compounded by discrimination experienced by those already marginalized, and the role played by culture and social media.