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Privatization, technology, and the carceral state

May 28, 2021, 12:00 pm EDT
Kelly Gates, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Jorge Nuñez, and chair Heather Thompson comprise the second panel of the Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: Science, Technology, and the Carceral State webinar series.
STPP Lecture Series

Digital contact tracing: An unlikely policy story

Dec 7, 2020, 4:00-5:00 pm EST
Erin Simpson, Associate Director of Technology Policy at the Center for American Progress, will join STPP for a conversation about digital contact tracing and privacy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Lecture Series, Policy Talks @ the Ford School, STPP Lecture Series

Cybersecurity: Threats, policy, and responses

Sep 30, 2020, 4:00-5:00 pm EDT
In this conversation, Paul Abbate, Associate Deputy Director of the FBI, and David Levy, Vice President of Amazon Web Services, will discuss some of the challenges in addressing current cybersecurity threats, formulating policy, and calibrating responses. 
STPP Lecture Series

To Solve Drug Pricing We Must Solve the Drug Patent Problem

Feb 24, 2020, 4:00 pm EST
1110 Weill Hall
Priti Krishtel is a 15-year veteran of the global access to medicines movement. In 2006, she co-founded I-MAK, a nonprofit that works to combat the rising cost of prescription drugs by re-imagining the patent system so that people can get the lifesaving medicine they need.  
Ford School

Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program

The Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program is devoted to interdisciplinary research and teaching on the politics and processes of science and technology policymaking. STPP seeks to improve understanding, analysis, and intervention in...

Kumar Garg: Science for the people

Jan 26, 2022 1:01:38

Former assistant director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Kumar Garg and director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program Shobita Parthasarathy discuss deploying science, technology, and data for the p