SFU experts available on forecasting the COVID-19 pandemic recovery

As we move towards recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, SFU experts can provide commentary on a wide range of related topics including identifying our ‘new normal’, adapting to lifestyle changes, designing new approaches to how we work, re-establishing businesses and the economy, and many more relevant topics. 

The following experts are available: 

BUSINESSES & ECONOMIC RECOVERY

JEREMY STONE, director of SFU’s Community Economic Development Program  
 jeremy_stone@sfu.ca

• Economic recovery after disasters 
• Economic resilience planning 
• Economic development for community well-being 

SARAH LUBIK, director of Entrepreneurship, Beedie School of Business  
 slubik@sfu.ca

• Building economic resilience through science, technology and entrepreneurship 
• Local business resilience and innovation policy in the wake of COVID-19
  

TERRI GRIFFITH, Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship 
terri_griffith@sfu.ca

• Strategies on returning to the office 
• Hybrid work models 
• Recently interviewed for Business in Vancouver: What will work be like after the COVID-19 pandemic
  

ALEX BOSTON, executive director, Renewable Cities
a_boston@sfu.ca

• Integrated approaches to economic recovery 
• Co-wrote an op-ed on how B.C.’s COVID-19 recovery response can fix some of its acute vulnerabilities: A resilient recovery starts in our backyards and on our doorsteps
  

DAVID HANNAH, professor, Beedie School of Business
drhannah@sfu.ca

• Modifying business practices and policies in a post-COVID world
  

REAL ESTATE & URBAN ISSUES

ANDREY PAVLOV, professor, Beedie School of Business
 apavlov@sfu.ca

• Trends in the housing market & rising prices 
• Impact of pandemic on finances
  

ANDY YAN, director, The City Program
ayan@sfu.ca

• Housing market and rental market trends 
• Urban planning and COVID-19’s effects on cities 
• Uneven and unequal economic effects of COVID-19
  

TRAVEL & BORDERS

KELLEY LEE, professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
kelley_lee@sfu.ca

• Pandemics and Borders project
• Cross-border measures and pandemic response 
• Travel and vaccines
  

JULIANNE PIPER, research fellow and project coordinator, Pandemics & Borders project
julianne_piper@sfu.ca

• Cross-border measures and travel/border policies 
• Public health intelligence/global public health intelligence network (GPHIN) 
• Lessons from COVID-19 for Canada and for global health governance
  

ANNE-MARIE NICOL, associate professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
anne-marie_nicol@sfu.ca

• Travel restrictions and border closures 
• The future of COVID-19 prevention measures particularly on indoor gatherings
  

VALORIE CROOKS, Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies
 valorie_crooks@sfu.ca

• Travel and border measures/restrictions 
• Vaccine tourism
  
• Long-term health impacts of pandemic measures in B.C.
  
• Pandemic Geographies: Exploring the Spatial Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Co-author of Mapping the COVID-19 pandemic’s secondary health impacts

SENIORS

HABIB CHAUDHURY, professor, Department of Gerontology
 chaudhury@sfu.ca

• Built environment and aging, seniors housing 
• Long-term care, age-friendly communities, dementia-friendly communities
  

CONTACT 

MELISSA SHAW, SFU  Communications & Marketing 
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca

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778.782.3210 

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