Mitigating Outbreaks

Presenter Information

Samantha Friedman, University at Albany, State University of New YorkFollow

Start Date

28-6-2021 10:10 AM

End Date

28-6-2021 10:55 AM

Session Chair

Samantha Friedman

Abstract

This session will be focusing on these three abstracts:

1.Forward Together: An interdisciplinary approach to mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks at one of the nation’s most diverse universities

2.Novel Commercial Protective Face Mask Technology to Mitigate Disparities in Personal Safety

3.Selecting and Training Contact Tracers to Address Minority Health Disparities: Lessons from COVID-19

Author Bio

Dr. Friedman is an Associate Professor and Internship Director of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis. Her research focuses on housing market discrimination, racial and ethnic segregation, and disparities in residential attainment by race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, nativity status, and religion. In 2015, Dr. Friedman completed a yearlong Fulbright fellowship in Turkey studying residential segregation and housing inequality by socioeconomic status. She is currently studying racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in New York City and in pediatric asthma in metropolitan America. Dr. Friedman is also examining racial and ethnic disparities in eviction among renters and the role of housing tenure as it relates to disaster preparedness among Hispanics. Dr. Friedman has published articles in several journals including Demography, City & Community, and Urban Studies and is co-author of The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York’s Housing Market (2007).

Document Type

Event

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