Ebola Fact vs Fiction Panel
Talk Radio 1210 and
LaSalle Present a special Broadcast:
"Ebola Fact vs Fiction"
airs Thursday at 11am
.
Panel Discussion Times
.
11:00 - Holly Harner & Daniel Rodriguez
11:15 - Walt Schubert
11:30 - Dr. Nora Jones & Abass Johnson
11:45 - Mike Boyle
.
Holly Harner & Daniel Rodriguez
.
Podcast
.
Walt Schubert
.
Podcast
.
Dr. Nora Jones & Abass Johnson
.
Podcast
.
Mike Boyle
.
Podcast
.
HOLLY M. HARNER, PH.D., MBA, MPH, CRNP, WHCNP-BC
Assistant Professor and Director, Master of Public Health Program
Dr. Harner is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program. She is also a women's health nurse scientist and a nationally certified Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner (WHCNP-BC). She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (2001) in the area of forensic mental health; and she completed additional training, receiving a Master of Public Health (MPH) focusing in Family and Community Health, at the Harvard School of Public Health (2002). Throughout her career, Dr. Harner has focused her research and clinical practice on women undergoing extraordinary stress: inpatient psychiatric treatment, adolescent pregnancy, pregnancy termination, and incarceration. She recently completed one year of post-doctoral training as a fully-funded Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) at the University of Pennsylvania.
DANIEL RODRIGUEZ, PH.D.
Associate Professor of Public Health
Dr. Rodriquez received his B.A. in psychology and M.A. in Education from San Diego State University, and his Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Maryland. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rodriguez taught as an adjunct instructor at various institutions including La Salle before accepting a full-time position at La Salle in 2013. He also held the position of Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and at Brown University.
Walter Schubert
A professor of finance at La Salle, He teaches courses in speculative markets, portfolio management, global finance, and financial markets. He conducts research on derivative securities, sovereign wealth funds, and valuation issues and was a Fulbright Professor of Finance at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar in 2009. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Kairos House a non-profit organization that provides housing for families of children being treated for cancer in Guatemala City and provides health missions to the indigenous population in rural Guatemala.
Nora Jones, PhD
Nora Jones, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Associate Director of Bioethics Education at CBUHP, where she founded and heads the MA in Urban Bioethics program. She earned her PhD in anthropology from Temple University in 2002, and has been working in bioethics for the last 15 years. Past teaching and research focused on cultural competency in medicine, the relationship between the arts and medicine, global health and bioethics, and patient decision-making. Dr. Jones' current work centers on urban bioethics, culture and embodiment theory, and the public understanding of science and medicine. Her most recent publications address embodiment in transplant recipients and donors, clinical and patient representations of the body in pain, and qualitative methodology in bioethics research.
Abass Johnson
Abass Johnson, a native of Liberia, is studying for a Master's degree in public health at La Salle, and is head of Public Health Student Organization
Michael Boyle
Michael Boyle is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at La Salle University in Philadelphia. He was previously a Lecturer in International Relations and Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews. He is also an alumnus of the Political Science Department at La Salle. He has also published on security studies and American foreign policy. His writings have appeared in a range of scholarly journals and popular outlets, including regular columns for the Guardian (UK)
