Join the upcoming Barry University Honors Program for the Fall 2020 Guest Lecture Series, Leadership in Time of Crisis:The pandemic from both the public health crisis and the economic crisis in the United States. It will feature experts Dr. Amesh Adalja of Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Paula Tkac of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Dr. Kristen Broady from the Brookings Institution. They will discuss topics ranging from novel infectious disease pandemics, “Virus 201,” growing divergence in the pandemic experience, and the overall facts about COVID-19 and the U.S. economy.
The event will be moderated by members of the Honors Program Student Advisory Board, Brianna Lopez, Emma James, and Walter MacWaters. It will include a student meet and greet with panelists following the event.
Wednesday, December 2 | 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Virtual Location: Zoom
Guest Panelists for this lecture:
Dr. Adalja is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. His work is focused on emerging infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, and biosecurity.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Adalja served on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) coronavirus advisory group and as a consultant to various businesses, schools, and organizations, as well as an informal advisor to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
He received an MD from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine and a BS in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Adalja is a native of Butler, Pennsylvania, and actively practices infectious disease, critical care, and emergency medicine in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, where he was appointed to the City of Pittsburgh’s HIV Commission and to the advisory group of AIDS Free Pittsburgh.
Dr. Paula Tkac is a senior vice president and associate director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She leads the financial markets and micro/macro research economics teams, serves as a policy adviser, and provides strategic direction for the research division.
Dr. Tkac conducts research on various financial market topics, including investor decision making, the mutual fund industry, financial regulation, and the recent financial crisis and policy responses. Her research has won two William F. Sharpe Awards at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
In addition to publishing in academic journals, Dr. Tkac frequently speaks to academic and practitioner groups and has appeared on C-SPAN and as an op-ed writer in the Wall Street Journal.
Before she joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in 2000, Dr. Tkac was on the faculty of the finance department at the University of Notre Dame. She earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of Chicago.
Read more about Dr. Tkac and her research.
Dr. Kristen E. Broady is the policy director of the Hamilton Project and a fellow of economic studies at The Brookings Institution. She previously served as the Dean of the College of Business and Barron Hilton Endowed Professor of Economics at Dillard University. She is the proprietor of KBroad Consulting and has served as a consultant for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the Center for Global Policy Solutions, the City of East Point, Georgia, and as the HBCU consultant for season two of The Quad on BET. She earned a B.A. in criminal justice at Alcorn State University and an MBA and Ph.D. in business administration with a major in economics at Jackson State University.