Institute for Science, Society and Policy

Full Professor, Political Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa

East Asia presents a remarkable picture in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Taken as a whole, this region is the least affected in the world in terms of mortality rates attributed to the infection. One could add to China, Japan, the two Koreas, Vietnam, and Taiwan, the cases in Australia and New Zealand, as well as countries that have been spared so far on other continents. It is important to draw attention to the East Asian countries, with their varying economic conditions, to see what lessons can be learned.

PhD Student in Conservation Biology, uOttawa

Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation, Professor of Biology, Chair of Department of Biology, uOttawa

Senior Research fellow, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment, University College London

Originally published by The Conversation on June 18, 2020

There had to be a silver lining to the nearly universal lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the small benefits has been a temporarily lighter human footprint in many ecosystems.

Director and Lead of the ISSP Energy Research Cluster
Chair, Positive Energy, uOttawa

Interim Research Director
ISSP, uOttawa

Originally published by The Hill Times on July 27, 2020

For six months, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has superseded all other public policy priorities. Governments placed their economies in a state of suspended animation, buttressed their health care systems, and pushed trillions out the door to help citizens weather the storm. But other policy problems are not going away. Indeed, COVID-19 has exposed and deepened many cracks in the system. As countries reopen, governments and multilateral institutions are grappling with what comes next, and how to reverse what the IMF estimates will be a five per cent contraction of the global economy in 2020.

ISSP Writer in Residence, Author and Performer

Originally published by The Globe and Mail on July 27, 2020

As parents worry about the school lessons kids have missed because of the pandemic, there’s one dinner conversation about COVID-19 that can make-up for any lost science lessons. Talk about all the uncertainty and doubt, from changing rules about wearing masks to efforts to create a vaccine. Explain that what we’re living through is science in action.

Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine
University of Calgary

An earlier version of this blog was originally published on the World Council of Churches website on June 10, 2020, which is an abridged and edited version of the original, published on Gregor Wolbring’s blog on May 19, 2020

Ethics is about what one ought to do. Many secular and non-secular ethical theories and principles exist to give us guidance. Which ethical theories and principles are employed to understand and respond to the points of impact of COVID-19 on disabled people?