The Global Interdependence Center – Solve Long Covid Initiative Program Series: Session V: Long Covid in the Media
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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Complimentary video replay is available!
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The Global Interdependence Center – Solve Long Covid Initiative Program Series: Session V: Long Covid in the Media
The fifth installment of the GIC Solve Long Covid Initiative Program Series will explore the impact and coverage of Long COVID in the media. Join us virtually on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 with speakers, Cynthia Adinig, ME/CFS and Long Covid patient advocate and Board Member of Solve M.E., Sandhya Kambhampati, data reporter on the Los Angeles Times Data Desk, author Meghan O’Rourke, and Fiona Lowenstein, Founder of Body Politic.
The Global Interdependence Center, in partnership with the Solve Long Covid Initiative (SLCI), is continuing a year-long webinar and conference series exploring the pandemic’s long-term healthcare, policy, and economic impact, specifically the implications of long haul COVID or long COVID.
Throughout the year, GIC and SLCI will bring together world-class immunologists, medical experts, policymakers, and economists to explore critical insights into defining, diagnosing, optimizing treatments, and healthcare policies for long COVID and analyzing its impact on U.S. and global labor markets.
About the David R. Kotok Global Healthcare Series
GIC launched the David R. Kotok Global Healthcare Series in 2020; a virtual program series focused on the roles health and healthcare policy play in the interdependent global community. As a part of the series, the GIC has launched the “Analyzing Pandemics: Economic and Policy Impacts” executive briefings to explore the 100-year global pandemic event. Past briefings focused on the disease and the cure, COVID-19’s impact on food supply chains, artificial intelligence, climate change, and higher education.
In 2021, David Kotok and the Solve Long COVID Initiative offered a new gift to the GIC for funding, sponsorship, and logistical support for the Long COVID Program Series. The series serves as a neutral forum to elevate, vet, and share information about changing interdependencies caused by Long COVID’s impact on medical research, health care policy, fiscal policy, monetary policy, finance, trade, politics, and culture.
About the Solve Long Covid Initiative
The Solve Long Covid Initiative represents a collection of new and expanded programs in research, advocacy, and education that will improve outcomes for the millions suffering from post-infection diseases. Based on more than 30 years of research and advocacy experience advancing the understanding of post-infection diseases, the Solve Long Covid Initiative takes a strategic approach to integrating pre-pandemic and post-pandemic knowledge and community insights. Our work in the post-infection disease space has allowed us to create connections and build partnerships with researchers, clinicians, patients, government, and industry leaders.
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Cynthia Adinig
ME/CFS and Long Covid patient advocate and Board Member of Solve M.E.Cynthia Adinig is a ME/CFS and Long Covid patient advocate and member of Solve M.E.’s board.
Jill Fornito
Executive Director, Global Interdependence CenterJill Fornito joined the Global Interdependence Center in 2008 as the assistant director with a broad scope of responsibilities including organizational and program management. In 2011, Jill assumed the role of director of operations, focusing mainly on the planning and execution of GIC’s domestic and international conferences. Jill was named the executive director in 2017 as she continues to oversee the daily operations of the GIC office, including development, financial administration, program coordination and communications. She is also the author of GIC’s Travel Blog.
Sandhya Kambhampati
Data Reporter on the Los Angeles Times Data DeskSandhya Kambhampati is a data reporter on the Los Angeles Times Data Desk, where she covers the demographics and diversity of California and the nation. At the LA Times, she is working on a series of stories to understand the experiences of long haul COVID-19 people and their caregivers and how they’re navigating the medical, financial, mental and emotional challenges of the illness in California.
Fiona Lowenstein
Founder of Body PoliticFiona Lowenstein is an award-winning journalist, producer, speaker, and the founder of Body Politic, a queer feminist wellness collective and media organization that is now a patient-led Long COVID advocacy group.
Meghan O’Rourke
AuthorMeghan O’Rourke is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness and The Long Goodbye, as well as the poetry collections Sun In Days, Once, and Halflife.
Emily Taylor
Vice President of Advocacy and Engagement, Solve M.E.Emily Taylor is the Director of Advocacy and Engagement for Solve M.E. She brings to the organization over fifteen years of policy, organization, and advocacy experience in both the non-profit and government sectors.
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