Month: April 2024
NEW PUBLICATION FOR DR. XU – CONGRATULATIONS!
Li, G, & Xu, H.D. (2023). Strategies for Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Assessment of Public Health Measures in China during the Outbreak. Occasional Paper Series, 5 (2): 1-7, December 2023, The American Society for Public Administration.
Abstract: With the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, the research reviews the public health interventions during the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 taken by the Chinese government and discusses the unique institutional and political contexts of adopting and implementing such public health emergency measures and their unintended consequences. Specifically, the study collected a vast amount of data relating to the public health interventions in China, breaks down the critical period of the disease outbreak into five phases — Incubation Period, Outbreak Period, Mitigation, Post-Mitigation Period, and Routinized Management and Control Period, and analyzes how different sets of public health measures were deployed and removed in City of Wuhan, Hubei Province, and the rest of China at large, based on the changes in the pandemic conditions. This empirical study represents one of the most comprehensive analyses of the emergency management strategies in China for the COVID-19 pandemic and serves a key reference for future public health emergency management.
SEMESTER COMING TO AN END
Stress and strain of trying to get everything finished. You deserve a break: Treat yourself to some live music this Friday with Eastern NC’s premiere classic rock/pop band, Dr. Baumgartner’s 28 West!
CLASSES END TOMORROW!!!
(Remember, Tues. April 23 follows the M-W-F schedule)
CLASSIC POLITICAL HUMOR, FROM 2016
Donald Trump’s children’s book (Jimmy Kimmel): https://bit.ly/40GiTMd
THE NEXT BEST THING TO MAJORING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
Minor in political science! We also have minors in Comparative Government and International Relations, Public Administration, Security Studies, and Leadership Studies. See: https://politicalscience.ecu.edu/minors/.
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More and more people are deciding to major – or even minor – in political science. Come see what we have to offer!
FALL 2024 COURSE: A FEW OPEN SEATS LEFT!
POLS 4383, “Clash of Nations: The Drivers Behind Interstate Conflict,” Tuesdays/Thursdays 11-12:15, Dr. Olson Lounsbery. Sign up now!