Exploring Covid-19’s impact on wealth, entrepreneurship, health, housing, employment, and education, with an emphasis on solutions.

Presented by Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity

Dates: Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – Thursday, October, 27, 2022, 1:00 p.m. ET

Location: Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club

Keynote Speaker: William Frederick, President of Howard University

Conversation: “Dispatches from the Frontline: Nurses and Covid-19” and so much more!

Duke University faculty and other scholars affiliated with the Cook Center recently completed a book examining the racial, gender, and class issues related to the global pandemic. The forthcoming book, The Pandemic Divide: How Covid Increased Inequality in America will be published by Duke University Press and will be available for distribution in Fall 2022.

The corresponding conference from October 25-27, 2022, will feature scholars, practitioners, philanthropists, journalists, faculty and students, and other interested participants from the local community and regional and national publics, who all will come together at Duke University. The conference will explore Covid-19’s impact on wealth, entrepreneurship, health, housing, employment, and education, with an emphasis on the determination of steps that could have been taken to mitigate the full impact of a pandemic and offer concrete public policy solutions that would allow the nation to effectively respond to future crises.

This is a FREE event.