Hi everyone! Welcome to our newsletter, Digital Transatlantic Dialogue. If you haven't joined us yet, w e are offering webinars every week on a specific public policy or cultural topic with experts from our inspiring community!

Today's Newsletter
  1. Webinar: Creative Insights
  2. Previous webinars
  3. In the News
  4. COVID-19 & the Impact of Inequality
  5. Healthcare systems and COVID-19
Upcoming Webinars
We are very pleased to welcome Marc Levy , bestselling French novelist, as a guest speaker for our next Zoom webinar this week. You do not need a Zoom account to join!



with
Marc Levy, bestselling French novelist
Moderated by Karin Tanabe, Author & Young Leader '18

  • Topic: Fostering creativity in this moment of crisis
  • Date & Time: Thursday, April 23 at 1:00 pm ET
  • RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event.

Our next webinars will include (specific dates and hours to be announced soon):
News
  • "Oil prices tumbled as the economic crisis set off by the coronavirus pandemic continued to destroy demand for energy. (...)"


  • "Emotional whiplash is the order of the day, perhaps nowhere more so than in Italy, where, as the nation’s daily death toll crept toward its apex, musicians under quarantine took to their balconies and lovingly called out to their neighbors with song. The documentary filmmaker Elettra Fiumi produced an audiovisual collage of the ritual for The New Yorker. (...)"

Comparing Six Health-Care Systems in a Pandemic , The Council on Foreign Relations
  • "The coronavirus pandemic has stressed health-care systems around the world, testing their capacities to care for patients and protect health workers in a time of crisis. Authorities have sought to implement widespread testing, make room in hospitals, and secure critical medical equipment such as ventilators and masks. (...)"
Healthcare Systems and COVID-19
  • "The Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly disrupted our everyday life. Cities and states are on lockdown in a desperate effort to flatten the curve. Worst-case scenario projections are dire, with the potential for millions of deaths in the absence of immediate, decisive, and coordinated action. (...)"

  • "As it approves billions of dollars to support hospitals and health care workers besieged by Covid-19, Congress can reinforce some of the worst elements of America’s broken health care system or it can begin to transform the system by making permanent the reforms the pandemic has forced through. (...)" 

  • "Even the most vocal critic of the American health care system cannot watch coverage of the current Covid-19 crisis without appreciating the heroism of each caregiver and patient fighting its most-severe consequences. Hospitals are being built in parks and convention centers, new approaches to sterilizing personal protective equipment (PPE) for reuse are being implemented, and new protocols for placing multiple patients on a single ventilator have been developed. (...)" 
Previous Webinars
Check out the full recordings of our past webinars. The links below will take you to a 15-minute preview on Dropbox. You'll have the option to download the full file on the side of the page.
  1. How Coronavirus Will Change Geopolitics
  2. Coronavirus: The Infodemic?
  3. Book Reading: A Hundred Suns
  4. Book Talk: The Cactus League
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