Monthly Archives: March 2022

2.11 The DEI Boom 2-years Later with Dr. Courtney McCluney



Across the country, workers have become increasingly disengaged and dissatisfied with their work,  searching for other job opportunities or a break from work altogether in what economists are calling “The Great Resignation.”  At the same time, workplaces have attempted to  enhance worker wellbeing during the pandemic and expand DEI efforts. In today’s episode we’re joined by work and diversity scholar Courtney McCluney, an assistant professor of Organizational Behavior in the ILR School at Cornell University, to chat about her trajectory of research on work, where employers are succeeding and failing their workers, and how researchers can effectively share their research insights in the private space.


2.10 The spatial origins of population health (in-)equity



Space holds special importance in population health. Critical theories of inequity center geographies — from broad nation-states to more intimate neighborhood environments — as principal organizers of health and well-being. Still, despite a widespread understanding that “place matters” in health research, geospatial techniques for clarifying these relations are less widely used. In this episode of Sick Individuals/Sick Populations, we welcome on two leading geospatial scientists — Drs. Marynia Kolak and Peter Chen — for a timely chat on the importance of place for health (including how this relationship has accelerated recently, in face of COVID-19 and environmental harms), as well as their use of and efforts to democratize geospatial techniques for health research.