Yale Faculty Roundtable

what does covid mean for us and the world?

November 4, 2021

6:30 PM (est)

Join us for our next Faculty Roundtable with introductions by Frank Snowden and John Nwangwu.

about this event

What are the biggest issues moving forward in this age of Covid? What are the things vital for a society to be thinking about in regard to Covid that we may not be thinking about? What have we learned from Covid? Are we wiser than we were? What should we do to be wiser in the future? What mistakes have we made? Beyond statistics, how do we make sense of this?

For our next Faculty Roundtable Dinner, these and other questions will be addressed by two outstanding Yale professors. We will be led into our table discussions by a dialogue between Frank Snowden, who has spent years researching and writing on the impact of pandemics in societies, and John Nwangwu, an epidemiologist who has been with the World Health Organization’s early exploration at the Wuhan lab as well as doing research day and night on Covid. Anjeanette Roberts, a virologist who spent time at the National Institute of Health (NIH) co-leading a SARS research team, will be moderating the discussion.

Hopefully, we will be able to have our in-person candlelight dinner and return to having our presenters giving us a springboard into discussion around the multi-disciplinary seating at each table!

about our Speakers

frank snowden

Frank Snowden received his B.A. in Government from Harvard in 1968. He then went as a Marshall Scholar to Oxford University, where he earned the D.Phil. Degree in 1975. His first academic job was as Assistant Professor of History at Yale University, 1975-1978.

He returned to England as Lecturer, then Reader, in History at the University of London from 1978-1990. He was then appointed Professor of History at Yale University, where he remained from 1990 until his retirement in 2018. In 2008 he was named Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of History, Chair of the Program of History of Science and History of Medicine, and Professor of the History of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.

Frank Snowden’s principal publications related to medicine and public health are: Naples in the Time of Cholera, (1995); The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (2006); and Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (2019). Conquest of Malaria was awarded the Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association, the Gustav Ranis Prize at Yale University, and the Welsh Medal of American Association of the History of Medicine.

john nwangwu

has been educating and training healthcare providers since 1982. He has held academic appointments in numerous institutions including, Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Southern Connecticut State University, and University of Connecticut. Currently he is a professor at both Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU). At Yale University, he holds the position of Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. While at SCSU he holds the position of Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health.

Prof. Nwangwu has been working with the World Health Organization, providing expertise in the fields of infectious disease and epidemiology throughout the world. Currently he is on the team that has been exploring the Covid epidemic. Between March 2013 and July 2014, Nwangwu consulted with WHO on the Ebola outbreak working on the ground in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia following the onset of the soon to be pandemic. He has been featured in several interviews regarding his experiences with the disease including the PBS Nova Documentary Ebola: The Plague Fighters, where the 1995 outbreak of Ebola in Kikwit, Zaire, is investigated. Read More

anjeanette (“a.j.”) roberts, moderator

A.J. Roberts completed her BS in chemistry at the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at the University of Tulsa in 1988 and her PhD in molecular and cell biology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. From 1997 to 2001, she conducted postdoctoral research in viral pathogenesis and “proof-of-concept” vaccine studies in Dr. John Rose’s lab at Yale University. She then spent two years in Samara, Russia, in Christian mission work and public health lecturing. In 2003, AJ joined Dr. Kanata Subbarao’s lab at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There she co-led a SARS research team until 2006. From 2006 to 2013, she served as an assistant professor of graduate education for the University of Virginia’s microbiology faculty and directed the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program in Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases. From 2013 to 2015, she was a visiting fellow with the Rivendell Institute at Yale. AJ has coauthored over 40 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She has also presented at numerous national and international scientific conferences and lectured at various institutions around the world. In 2005, she received the NIH Merit Award for her contribution to research in infectious diseases.

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