The seminar will recount the constantly changing scientific and regulatory milieu with regards to both the virus, SARS-CoV-2, as well as the evolving policy responses to address the wide range of impacts of COVID-19. Lessons learned with regards to pedagogical techniques and the means to facilitate student and faculty interaction will also be presented.
David M. Gute is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine, as well as at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. He directs a M.S./Ph.D. program in Environmental Health and previously served as the academic director of the Tufts in Talloires program. Prior to joining the Tufts faculty, Gute served as an assistant commissioner responsible for personal and environmental disease risk factor reductions with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and as an epidemiologist with the Rhode Island Department of Health.