As we move beyond the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to examine thoughtfully both the health outcomes and policy decisions that shaped our collective response to the crisis. Structured around Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee's In COVID's Wake, this flagship event will feature a fireside chat with the authors and panel discussions examining how scientific evidence, policy implementation, and public communication intersected during the pandemic.
These conversations will aim to build mutual understanding among leading public health, science, and policy experts, and identify lessons that can strengthen our response to future public health challenges. This event is one part of a broader series of collaborations between Johns Hopkins University faculty and American Enterprise Institute scholars that seeks to foster constructive conversations across diverse perspectives and to root research and teaching with implications for the nation’s common life in a broad range of points of views.
If you are unable to attend in person, a video livestream will be available.
Participants and Agenda
1:30 p.m. Registration Opens
2:00 p.m. Program Begins, Opening Remarks - Sommer Hall
Tony Mills, Director, Center for Technology, Science, and Energy, American Enterprise Institute
Judd Walson, Robert E. Black Chair in International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ron Daniels, President, Johns Hopkins University
Robert Doar, President, American Enterprise Institute
2:30 p.m. Panel I: Fireside chat with Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee
Panelists:
Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Stephen Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Moderator:
Yuval Levin, Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, The American Enterprise Institute
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Panel II: The Science-Policy Interface
Panelists:
John Hellerstedt, Former Commissioner, Texas Department of State Health Services
Nancy E. Kass, Deputy Director for Public Health, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Roger Pielke Jr., Senior Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute
Emily E Ricotta, Assistant Professor, Uniformed Services University
Moderator:
Lisa Margonelli, Senior Editor, Issues in Science and Technology
4:30 p.m. Panel III: Governance and Decision-Making Frameworks
Panelists:
Mahmud Farooque, Associate Director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University
Amita Gupta, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Steven Teles, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Philip Wallach, Senior Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute
Moderator:
William Howell, Dean, School of Government and Policy, Johns Hopkins University
5:30 p.m. Adjournment
5:45 p.m. Reception - Feinstone Hall
