COVID-19 Symposium Program

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King’s Academy

COVID-19 Symposium

PROGRAM

DAY 1 Tuesday, April 21, 2020

09:15 - 09:45

Welcome and Introduction Peter Nilsson, Head of School

09:45 - 10:45

Opening Plenary: What Is COVID-19?

Including featured guests such as: Jawad al Rosan, Project Management Operations and Governance Manager, Zain Group Dr. Nader Hijazi, Specialist in pulmonology and critical care, Abdali Hospital, Amman, Jordan

11:30 - 12:30

Understanding: STEM Perspectives (concurrent sessions by King’s Academy faculty) Exploring questions such as: • What is the structure of a virus?

• How does handwashing help prevent virus spread?

• What is exponential versus linear growth in mathematical models?

• Why can’t we go back to “normal” without a vaccine?

• How do we present and interpret data visualizations in a way that is productive and engages people in evidence-based discussion?

13:30 - 14:00

Stories of Survival Survivors of COVID-19 will share their first-hand accounts of contracting, managing and treating the virus Rob McDowell, Deerfield alum and parent News report featuring Christopher Cuomo Sayf Abdeen ’19

14:00 - 15:00

Understanding: Arts and Humanities Perspectives (concurrent sessions by King’s Academy faculty) Exploring questions such as: • How can we read letters as historians — and describe our own experiences with COVID-19 in correspondence?

• What is the nature of the relationship between public health crises and racial politics?

• How will COVID-19 affect national elections across the world?

• What does literature tell us about how to manage isolation and loneliness?

• How have street artists across the world responded to COVID-19?

DAY 2 Wednesday, April 22, 2020

09:30 - 10:30

Overview and Plenary Session Including featured guests such as: HE Dr. Mohamad Al-Ississ, Minister of Finance, Jordan Julianne Puente, Deputy Head of School and Dean of Students, King’s Academy Sallee Gregory, Deputy Director of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Affairs in Jordan

10:30 - 11:15

Synthesis and Application: Guests (concurrent sessions) Refugees and those in need How is COVID-19 affecting Amman's refugees and how are non-proďŹ t organizations responding? with Amanda Lane, Executive Director at Collateral Repair Project How does one NGO (Reclaim Childhood) working with refugees function during isolation? with Jessie Wyatt, Director of Jordan Programs, Reclaim Childhood Who are some of the most vulnerable in Jordan and how are they coping with the COVID-19 quarantine? with Dr. Aida Essaid, Director of the Information and Research Center at the King Hussein Foundation Health, Medicine and Wellness How does data alignment impact our understanding of COVID-19? with Dr. Christopher Chute, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics; Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing; Chief Research Information Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Deputy Director, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Johns Hopkins University How does physical isolation affect us psychologically? with Dr. Falah Tamimi, Consulting Psychiatrist, Head of Al Amal Psychiatric and Addiction Clinic; former director, Jordanian Psychiatric Association How did the the American University of Beirut Medical Center respond to COVID-19 through its Pandemic Evaluation Center (PEC) with Dr. Souha Kanj-Shararah, Professor of Internal Medicine and Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases, American University of Beirut; Consulting Professor, Duke University School of Medicine Economy What is the role of the Central Bank in a moment of crisis like this? with HE Dr. Ziad Fariz, Governor of the Central Bank of Jordan How will COVID-19 impact the regional and global economy on the short, medium and long term? with Dan Azzi, Advanced Leadership Fellow, Harvard University; former chairman and CEO of Standard Chartered Bank SAL How did Bank al Etihad preempt and respond to COVID-19? with HE Nadia Al Saeed, CEO of Bank al Etihad

Technology How can technology mitigate the effects of COVID-19? with Ismail Hakki, Director of TechWorks, Amman How have mobile networks been impacted by COVID-19? with Jawad Al Rosan, Project Management Operations and Governance Manager, Zain Group Politics and Art (in Arabic)

‫ ﻓﻨﺎن ﻛﺎرﻳﻜﺎﺗري‬،‫ﻛﻴﻒ ﻇﻬﺮ ﻓريوس ﻛﻮروﻧﺎ ﰲ ﻓﻦ اﻟﻜﺎرﻳﻜﺎﺗري؟ ﻣﻊ ﻋامد ﺣﺠﺎج‬ Math and Data How do you build a mathematical model for predicting virus spread? with Dr. Marco Thiel, Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, University of Aberdeen COVID-19 Data Visualization for Jordan: What Does It Look Like? with Dr. Nader Hijazi, Pulmonologist, Abdali Hospital, Amman, Jordan Law and Government How do we understand the Defense Law that was imposed in Jordan in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis and what limitations are there for the measures that can be taken pursuant to it? with Sanaa Obeidat, Attorney 11:45 - 12:30

Synthesis and Application: King’s Academy Faculty (concurrent sessions) Exploring questions such as: • • • •

13:30 - 14:15

How do editorial cartoons about disease affect and reflect public understanding?

How can you make protective face masks at home?

How can loneliness be a catalyst for connection?

How can boredom foster creativity?

Closing Plenary Including featured guests such as: HE Dr. Saad Jaber, Minister of Health, Jordan Yassin Talhouni, Chief Executive Officer, ZARA Holdings Dr. Riel Miller, Head of Futures Literacy, UNESCO

14:15 - 15:00

Closing Notes and Charge Peter Nilsson, Head of School