NEWS & EVENTS

The Reischauer Center’s webinar on August 26th, “Shadows: COVID-19, the Developing World, and East Asia’s Response,” utilized the Center’s recent report on the advances of the coronavirus in the developing world, and how East Asia can support other nations’ management of the pandemic as a basis for discussion.

Speakers included Dr. Cinnamon Dornsife, Senior Advisor of International Development at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Mr. Keiichiro Nakazawa, Senior Vice President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), who discussed opportunities for cooperation and joint research on COVID-19 in LICs and LMICs alongside the Director of the Reischauer Center, Dr. Kent Calder.

Reischauer Policy Research Fellows, Monica Weller and Vivian Chen, as well as Research Intern, Corinthians Payne, questioned panelists on topics such as the use of high and low technological adaptations in COVID-19 spread prevention as well as what Japan’s role in supporting these countries looks like going forward.

In discussion, panelists addressed the major central question: If this pandemic is a wake-up call, what are we waking up to?