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- Network Science
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David Lazer
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Sciences- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Lazer is studying the spread of misinformation of COVID-19 and conducting national surveys that monitor citizen responses to government restrictions put in place to combat the virus.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- d.lazer@northeastern.edu
- 617.329.1010
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Samuel Scarpino
Assistant Professor, and Director of Emerging Epidemics Lab- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Scarpino’s research focuses on complex systems and network science, including: infectious diseases, forecasting, predictive modeling, and others.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- s.scarpino@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2482
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Matteo Chinazzi
Research Associate- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Chinazzi is working with Vespignani and the MOBS lab to produce COVID-19 projections and modeling.
- Contact
- m.chinazzi@northeastern.edu
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Albert-László Barabási
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science, Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Director of the Center for Complex Network Research- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Barabási is using AI to identify new potential drugs to treat COVID-19.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- a.barabasi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7774
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Tina Eliassi-Rad
Associate Professor of Computer Science - Supply Chain
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Nada Sanders
Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Sanders has talked about how U.S. reliance on global supply chains for low-cost items like masks and hand sanitizer has contributed to shortages, as well as how U.S. manufacturing plants are being repurposed to add lines of production for these items. She is also conducting research on food supply chains and PPE shortages.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- n.sanders@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7198
- Health Policy
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Wendy Parmet
Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and director of the Center for Health Policy and Law- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Parmet is a leading expert on health, disability and public health law and directs the law school’s Center for Health Policy and Law.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- w.parmet@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2019
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Aziza Ahmed
Professor of Law- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Ahmed is an internationally renowned expert in health law, criminal law and human rights. She studies privacy law related to those who receive a positive COVID-19 diagnosis, and health law related to those not following distancing requirements
- Featured Press
- Contact
- az.ahmed@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3250
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Brook Baker
Professor of Law- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Baker has been consulting with WHO to advocate for loosening IP protections among pharmaceutical companies in order to more quickly develop a COVID-19 vaccine and make it widely available
- Featured Press
- Contact
- b.baker@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3217
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Gary Young
Director of Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, Professor of Strategic Management and Healthcare Systems- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Young has recently been appointed to the US Homeland Security Task Force responsible for distributing funds from the CARES bill to healthcare organizations.
- Contact
- ga.young@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2528
- Public Policy
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Daniel Aldrich
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs; Director, Masters Program in Security and Resilience- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Aldrich has been speaking about the need to practice “physical distancing” instead of “social distancing,” as those who are without social ties and connections are most vulnerable during a pandemic. He has also conducted research on how communities show resilience under several shocks, like the combination of COVID-19 with a natural disaster.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- d.aldrich@northeastern.edu
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Richard Wamai
Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Wamai researches public policy in Africa and is tracking how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect all aspects of the continent.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- r.wamai@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4130
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Christopher Bosso
Professor, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Nanotechnology and Society Research Group- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Bosso has been speaking about SNAP benefits during health crises like COVID-19.
- Contact
- c.bosso@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4398
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Stephen Flynn
Professor of Political Science, Founding Director of the Global Resilience Institute- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Flynn studies societal resilience and has been speaking about the use of the Defense Production Act to make protective gear and ventilators during COVID-19.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- s.flynn@northeastern.edu
- 617.470.7675
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Jeremy Paul
Professor of Law- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Paul’s research has been speaking about the legality of the mail-in-voting in order to properly social distance.
- Contact
- j.paul@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3307
- Healthcare
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Janet Rico
Assistant Dean, Nursing Graduate Programs- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Rico researches long-term support and healthcare access for disabled and elderly, long-term care policy, healthcare disparities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and telemedicine during the pandemic.
- Contact
- j.rico@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6975
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Jack Dennerlein
Professor of Physical Therapy -
Timothy Hoff
Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems and Health Policy- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Hoff has spoken about how the U.S.’s primary care system has broken over time, and how this has impacted hospitals’ ability to respond to the demands of COVID-19. He has also written about enlisting specialists and retired medical professionals as COVID-19 overwhelms hospital systems.
- Contact
- t.hoff@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4698
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John Kwoka
Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Kwoka studies antitrust laws and particularly how they have affected ventilator shortages during COVID-19
- Contact
- j.kwoka@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2252
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Alicia Sasser-Modestino
Associate Professor- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Modestino studies public policy and particularly how state policy changes under COVID-19 will affect the economics of those states.
- Contact
- a.modestino@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8900
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William (Bill) Dickens
Distinguished Professor of Economics and Social Policy- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Dickens’ research focuses on the cause of long-term unemployment and its consequences for monetary policy.
- Contact
- w.dickens@northeastern.edu
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Robert Triest
Professor of Economics - City Planning
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Sara Jensen Carr
Assistant Professor- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Jensen Carr has spoken about how urban and public spaces are being used as COVID emergency centers
- Contact
- sa.carr@northeastern.edu
- Psychology
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David DeSteno
Professor of Psychology- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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DeSteno’s research focuses on the impact affective states have on decision making and behavior, and has been speaking about the fear associated with the spread of COVID-19.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- d.desteno@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7884
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Laurie Kramer
Professor of Applied Psychology- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Kramer has conducted research about how to help siblings foster better relationships, and she has been speaking about how families are handling COVID-19 anxiety at home.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- l.kramer@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-2333
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Psyche Loui
Assistant Professor, Director MIND Lab (Music Imaging and Neural Dynamics), Music Technology- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Loui studies musical cognition and can speak to why people are turning to music as a way to come together during social distancing
- Featured Press
- Contact
- p.loui@northeastern.edu
- Marketing / Business
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Ravi Sarathy
Professor of International Business and Strategy- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Sarathy’s research focuses on international business and global strategy, industrial policy, global infrastructure, and the airline and computer software industries.
- Contact
- r.sarathy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4806
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Yakov Bart
Associate Professor of Marketing and Joseph G. Riesman Research Professor- Expertise
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- advertising effectiveness
- behavioral targeting
- Big data in marketing
- Branding
- Consumer financial decision making
- consumer product reviews
- COVID-19
- Customer experience management
- Digital marketing channels
- digital trust
- Exploding offers
- Gambling
- marketing management
- marketing strategy
- Mobile marketing
- online word of mouth
- privacy
- social media marketing
- user-generated content
- Contact
- y.bart@northeastern.edu
- 857.327.7373
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Ted Clark
Executive Director of NU Center for Family Business and Executive Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation - Engineering
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Steve Lustig
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Chair of Research, Chemical Engineering- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Lustig is using nanoparticles to test which materials can best filter out particles the size of COVID-19 as well as an n95 mask.
- Contact
- s.lustig@northeastern.edu
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Loretta Fernandez
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Marine and Environmental Sciences- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Fernandez’s research found that adding an outer layer made from nylon stockings to a homemade face covering can boost its ability to filter out small particles in the air by creating a tighter seal between the mask and the wearer’s face.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- l.fernandez@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5461
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Jacqueline Griffin
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Griffin’s current work, in partnership with Professors Parker, Kim and Marsella, focuses on a telephone survey of people’s response to COVID-19 to model and predict decision-making under stress.
- Contact
- ja.griffin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2470
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James Benneyan
Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Executive Director of Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Benneyan created a model to help hospitals anticipate possible shortage scenarios in emergency room capacity, ventilators and PPE due to COVID-19.
- Contact
- j.benneyan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6450
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Ming Su
Professor & Associate Chair of International Collaborations, Chemical Engineering -
Ryan Wang
Assistant Professor -
Babak Heydari
Assistant Professor or Mechanical and Industrial Engineering- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Babak’s recent research has focused on which social distancing policies have been most effective.
- Contact
- b.heydari@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2740
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Taskin Padir
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Padir has been speaking about using AI and automation as workforce solutions at a time of social distancing.
- Contact
- t.padir@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8114
- Technology
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Woodrow Hartzog
Professor of Law and Computer Science- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Hartzog has been speaking about how face masks will not stand in the way of facial recognition use during COVID-19 and data privacy contact tracking.
- Featured Press
- Contact
- w.hartzog@northeastern.edu
- (617) 373-5550
- @hartzog
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David Choffnes
Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Choffnes’ recent research focuses on video streaming services being throttled by US cellular providers as streaming sites are seeing an increase in traffic due to communities practicing social distancing and remote work.
- Contact
- choffnes@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4239
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Stephen Intille
Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science and Health Sciences- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Intille’s current research focuses on using real-time behavior recognition technology and operant conditioning methods to train people in important health-related behavior changes to stop the spread of disease.
- Contact
- s.intille@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3711
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Andrea Parker
Assistant Professor of Personal Health Informatics and Human-Computer Interaction- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Parker’s current work, in partnership with Professors Griffin, Kim and Marsella, focuses on a telephone survey of people’s response to COVID-19 to model and predict decision-making under stress.
- Contact
- a.parker@northeastern.edu
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Stacy C. Marsella
Professor of computer and information science and psychology- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Marsella’s current work, in partnership with Professors Griffin, Parker and Kim, focuses on a telephone survey of people’s response to COVID-19 to model and predict decision-making under stress.
- Contact
- s.marsella@northeastern.edu
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Michelle Borkin
Assistant Professor -
Cody Dunne
Assistant Professor- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Dunne’s current research, in partnership with Professor Borkin, focuses on designing a collaborative data visualization tool for remote work. His team is also exploring the best way to disseminate and communicate information about outbreaks.
- Contact
- c.dunne@northeastern.edu
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Seth Cooper
Assistant Professor- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Cooper’s current research focuses on developing tutorial and game content specific to COVID-19 for an online game designed to crowdsource protein folding puzzles.
- Contact
- scooper@northeastern.edu
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Jan-Willem van de Meent
Assistant Professor of Computer Science -
Byron Wallace
Assistant Professor & Director - BS in Data Science Program- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Wallace’s current research focuses on projections onto COVID-19 which use machine learning to maintain a continuously updated database of all reports of clinical trials in humans.
- Contact
- byron@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2402
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Ravi Sundaram
Professor- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Sundarum’s current research, partnered with Professor Rajmohan focuses on exploring the foundations of policy design for controlling epidemics using behavioral interventions and enabling faster/more accurate diagnostic interference with the use of machine learning.
- Contact
- koods@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5876
- Misinformation
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John Coley
Associate Professor of Psychology- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Coley has been speaking about deep-rooted misconceptions that people have about biology and how that informs their thinking about things like COVID-19, viruses, getting sick and how that can lead to misinformation spread.
- Contact
- j.coley@northeastern.edu
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Jeff Howe
Assistant Professor- Expertise
- COVID-19 Specialties
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Howe has spoken about the spread of misinformation from research that is published as pre-prints.
- Contact
- j.howe@northeastern.edu