U of I’s Coronavirus Experts

Expertise: Virus and host interactions, how viruses spread and how our bodies respond to viruses.

Expertise: Coronaviruses.

Expertise: Coronavirus readiness.

Expertise: Science writing in the media and public opinion.

Expertise: Global media, media law and the spread of misinformation via news and social media on a global scale.

Expertise: Studying social response and decision-making on perceptions and constructs of reality in the COVID-19 context, social responses to disasters including perception, behaviors and compliance/non-compliance, national security and community response to crisis.

Expertise: Media’s effect on people during a pandemic.

Expertise: Risk perceptions, anticipated public responses and strategies for risk communication.

Expertise: Vaccination attitudes, vaccine decision making and vaccine hesitancy.

Expertise: History of science and medicine.

Expertise: Rural sociology, community-based decision-making angle of an outbreak.

Expertise: Effect of global economy on agricultural markets.

Expertise: U of I state contact for the Extension Disaster Education Network, a collaborative multi-state effort by Extension Services across the country to provide resources and reduce the impact of disasters through research-based education.

Expertise: Commodity and stock markets, looking at the bigger financial picture and trends.

Expertise: Markets, commodities and stocks.

Expertise: Effects of systemic economic issues on local and regional economies.

Expertise: Governmental policies effect on economies, interest rates.

Expertise: Rural sociology, community-based decision-making angle of an outbreak.

Expertise: The logistics of cybersecurity and preventing hacks, networking hardware.

Expertise: Chain management, effects of interruptions in imports and exports on supplies of food, water, medical equipment and disease prevention materials.