The "Rituals in the Making" research team — a five-year, National Science Foundation-funded study of COVID death, mourning and memorialization led by the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences' Department of Anthropology — is pleased to host Sheryl Stolberg, New York Times correspondent, for her keynote address on politics and public health. The event marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg is a Washington Correspondent at the New York Times, covering the intersection of health policy and politics. In nearly three decades at the Times, she covered health, Congress, the White House (George W. Bush and Barack Obama) and national politics before returning to cover health policy when the coronavirus pandemic hit. Her stories focus on policy debates over issues including vaccination, reproductive rights, gun violence prevention, the ethics of virology research and the cost of prescription drugs. She is writing a book, tentatively titled "Contagion of Mistrust," that explores how the partisanship that divides America has affected the nation's health.

With remarks by Lynn Goldman, dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health, and Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of Science and professor of chemistry at GW. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics. 

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