In Fall 2022, the Global Inequality Research Initiative (GIRI) course focused on âThe Pandemic Divideâ. We examined inequalities through study of the recent Cook Center publication The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America.
The 2022 fall semester GIRI course will focused on the disparate impacts of global pandemic. The forthcoming book The Pandemic Divideâwritten by faculty, researchers and collaborators of the Cook Centerâexamines the racial, gender and economic implications of COVID-19. The broad goals of the course are:
- Examine past (and ongoing) inequalities within the bookâs area of focus and how they made certain populations especially vulnerable to this pandemic
- Identify and propose policy interventions to improve public health and social equality outcomes.
- Conduct novel research related to economic inequality and the COVID-19 pandemic using methods across the social sciences
Guest speakers include authors of chapters from The Pandemic Divide. Read their bios here.
Instructors:
- Adam Hollowell
