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Jennifer Lee, Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University, was recently published as part of How We Rise, a project from the Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion initiative at Brookings focused on policy solutions to upend structural racism:
Reckoning with science, medicine, and scapegoating
Sarah Z. Daly and John Marshall, Assistant Professors of Political Science, along with Political Science PhD students Pablo Argote, Elena Barham, Julian E. Gerez, and Oscar Pocasangre, published an article in Nature Partner Journals.
Wilmot James, Senior Research Scholar at ISERP, and Charles Hamilton, W. S. Sayre Professor Emeritus of Government and Political Science, published in Columbia News.
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how some strong, wealthy democracies, like the United States, struggled to manage the public health crisis.
The Columbia Univesity and University of the Witwatersrand recently held a five-day symposium with a range of experts debating topics linked to finding effective ways to increase vaccination. Maverick Citizen was the media partner to the symposium and Mark Heywood made the closing reflections. This is an edited version of his speech.