Covid Communication: Exploring Pandemic Discourse

Douglas A. Vakoch (PhD, MA, Stony Brook University; MA, University of Notre Dame; BA, Carleton College) is President of METI International and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has edited or co-edited more than twenty books covering COVID-19, communication, psychology, sustainability, and the search for life beyond Earth, including COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives (Routledge, 2022), Eco-Anxiety and Planetary Hope: Experiencing the Twin Disasters of COVID-19 and Climate Change (Springer, 2022), and Eco-Anxiety and Pandemic Distress: Psychological Perspectives on Resilience and Interconnectedness (Oxford University Press, 2023). His work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, The Economist, Nature, and Science, and he has been interviewed for numerous radio and television programs, including those broadcast on theBBC, PBS, Netflix, and Bilibili.

John C. Pollock (PhD, Stanford; MPA, Maxwell School, Syracuse; BA, Swarthmore), is Professor, depts. of Communication Studies and Public Health, The College of New Jersey. Authored or edited books include Tilted Mirrors: Media Alignment with Political and Social Change - A Community Structure Approach (2007); Media and Social Inequality: Innovations in Community Structure Research (2013); Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage (2015); (with Mort Winston), Making Human Rights News: Balancing Participation and Professionalism (2017); and (with Douglas A. Vakoch), COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives (Routledge (2021) . Serving on several editorial boards, including Journal of Health Communication, Communication Theory, and Mass Communication and Society, Pollock has written articles for numerous scholarly and non-scholarly outlets, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Health Communication, Mass Communication and Society, Journal of Human Rights, Human Rights Review, Society, The Nation, and The New York Times. Former president of a leading public relations firm's public opinion research subsidiary, Pollock won a Silver Anvil, "Oscar" of the Public Relations Society of America. With grants from the Social Science Research Council, National Cancer Institute, United Nations Foundation, and Senior Fulbright Scholar (Argentina, 2010), Pollock advances community structure theory, exploring the impact of society on media.

Amanda M. Caleb (PhD, MA, The University of Sheffield; MPH, The University of Alabama at Birmingham; BA, Davidson College) is Professor of Medical Humanities, having previously served as founding director and Professor of Medical and Health Humanities and Professor of English at Misericordia University. Her research interests include the medical and public health humanities, health communication, health narratology, narrative medicine, and bioethics and the Holocaust. Dr. Caleb has published articles and book chapters on topics ranging from the medicalization of social policies to the marginalization of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic to dementia and the role of narrative medicine. She is a member of the Health Humanities Consortium Steering Committee (membership chair), a member of the executive committee of the Medical Humanities and Health Studies forum of the Modern Language Association, and a member of the steering committee for the Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust, International Chair of Bioethics (World Medical Association Cooperation Centre). Dr. Caleb was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to revise Misericordia University's Medical and Health Humanities curriculum; as part of second NEH grant, she developed two public health humanities projects: COVID-19 and the Humanities YouTube lecture series, and a podcast, The Health Humanist.

Douglas A. Vakoch（博士，MA，斯托尼布魯克大學；MA，聖母大學；BA，卡爾頓學院）是METI國際組織的主席，也是加州整合研究所臨床心理學的名譽教授。他編輯或合編了二十多本關於COVID-19、溝通、心理學、可持續性和尋找地球以外生命的書籍，包括《COVID-19在國際媒體中：全球大流行的觀點》（Routledge，2022年）、《生態焦慮和地球希望：體驗COVID-19和氣候變化的雙重災難》（Springer，2022年）和《生態焦慮和大流行壓力：關於恢復力和相互聯繫的心理學觀點》（牛津大學出版社，2023年）。他的作品曾在《紐約時報》、《經濟學人》、《自然》和《科學》等刊物中亮相，並接受了許多廣播和電視節目的採訪，包括在BBC、PBS、Netflix和Bilibili上播出的節目。

John C. Pollock（博士，斯坦福大學；MPA，麥克斯韋爾學院，雪城；BA，斯沃斯莫爾學院）是新澤西學院傳播學和公共衛生系的教授。他撰寫或編輯的書籍包括《傾斜的鏡子：媒體與政治和社會變革的對齊-一種社區結構方法》（2007年）、《媒體與社會不平等：社區結構研究的創新》（2013年）、《新聞學與人權：人口統計驅動媒體報導》（2015年）；（與莫特·溫斯頓合著）《製造人權新聞：平衡參與和專業精神》（2017年）；（與Douglas A. Vakoch合著）《COVID-19在國際媒體中：全球大流行的觀點》（Routledge，2021年）。Pollock在多個編輯委員會上任職，包括《健康傳播學》、《傳播理論》和《大眾傳播與社會》。他曾為許多學術和非學術出版物撰寫文章，包括《新聞學與大眾傳播季刊》、《健康傳播學》、《大眾傳播與社會》、《人權期刊》、《人權評論》、《社會》、《國家》和《紐約時報》。Pollock曾是一家領先的公共關係公司的公共意見研究子公司的前任總裁，他贏得了美國公共關係協會的銀鐵騎士獎。Pollock獲得了社會科學研究委員會、國家癌症研究所、聯合國基金會和高級富布萊特學者（2010年在阿根廷）的資助，他推進社區結構理論，探索社會對媒體的影響。

Amanda M. Caleb（博士，MA，謝菲爾德大學；MPH，阿拉巴馬大學伯明翰分校；BA，戴維森學院）是醫學人文學教授，曾擔任Misericordia大學醫學和健康人文學創始主任、醫學和健康人文學教授和英語教授。她的研究興趣包括醫學和公共衛生人文學、健康傳播、健康敘事學、敘事醫學、生物倫理學和大屠殺。Caleb博士發表了關於醫療社會政策醫療化、COVID-19大流行期間殘疾人壓制、失智症和敘事醫學角色等主題的文章和專書章節。她是健康人文學聯盟指導委員會（會員主席）、現代語言協會醫學人文學和健康研究論壇執行委員會成員，以及國際生物倫理學主席（世界醫學協會合作中心）生物倫理和大屠殺部門的指導委員會成員。Caleb博士獲得了國家人文科學基金會（NEH）的資助，以修訂Misericordia大學的醫學和健康人文學課程；作為第二個NEH資助的一部分，她開發了一個名為「健康人文學和健康研究論壇」的計劃。