Experts in the News

"We are now projecting that our intensive care units will fill up over the next two weeks. And the reason that's significant is because we know as ICUs start to fill up, mortality goes up," fellow Peter Hotez stated.

Latin America energy fellow Francisco Monaldi explained why certain countries in the region are better placed to ride out the storm. 

Senior fellow Neal Lane, former director of the National Science Foundation, traced the past, present and future of the NSF and reminded us why basic research matters. 

The protests of the 1960s represented a revolution of rising expectations; today’s activists are struggling to gain a foothold, fellow Allen Matusow stated. Despite the enormous differences, they may ultimately prove united by the magnitude of the change they impose. Matusow, a historian and the academic director of the Baker Institute, is the author of “The Unraveling of America,” a seminal history of the U.S. during the 1960s.

Conflicts between black communities and police forces can be traced back to slavery, said drug policy fellow Katharine Neill Harris. Distrust has persisted across generations, through the Jim Crow era, the civil rights era in the 1950s and 1960s, and into modern policing tactics that disproportionately target black communities. Neill Harris is the Alfred C. Glassell, III, Fellow in Drug Policy.