Faculty Cross Talks

Addressing pandemic inequalities via targeted interventions and surface testing

Dr. Hawkins and Dr. Bracht discuss how social inequalities result in different groups being affected differently by the coronavirus pandemic and how local interventions (Dr. Hawkings) and innovative surface testing (Dr. Bracht) could help.

Fighting the Pandemic Misinformation

Dr. Japkowicz and Dr. Boukouvalas discuss their interdisciplinary project, in which they use machine learning techniques to detect misinformation on Twitter. The technique can be applied to automatically detect and mark misinformation about the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic.