T.S. Harvey
Associate Professor of Anthropology Vanderbilt University
- Nashville TN
Expert in cross-cultural doctor-patient interactions, public health communications, disaster relief and crisis management.
Biography
Harvey formed part of the team that created a virtual self-screening tool that will help individuals assess their risk of being infected with COVID-19. The app also offers capabilities for expediting test screening for providers and ultimately giving public health officials real-time anonymized data to identify, map and target interventions where they’re needed most: https://www.virtualcovidscreen.com He also launched the Spanish version of the free Vanderbilt COVID-19 Virtual Self-Screening Tool https://es.virtualcovidscreen.com.
Areas of Expertise
Education
Old Dominion University
M.A.
University of Virginia
Ph.D.
Selected Media Appearances
Why Metro Nashville schools must make masks mandatory for unvaccinated children | Opinion
Tennessean online
2021-07-22
Imagine for a moment a thriving city, your city, announcing that in the fall of 2021 it will be shifting its previously held responsibilities for providing safe public drinking water onto its residents, adding that moving forward all water testing and remediation, while highly recommended, will not be required but instead optional and left to the individual choices of residents.
Racial disparity in COVID-19 vaccinations in New York revealed in new data. What to know
Democrat and Chronicle online
2021-02-04
“In an ideal world, we would have already been working on this long before the roll out,” said T.S. Harvey, a risk-communication expert and Vanderbilt University associate professor.
“We put all of our eggs in the basket of the vaccine development, and we’ve seen the social science of it as an afterthought; almost as the easy part,” he said. “But there isn’t an example in history that it is the easy part.”
COVID vaccine hesitancy threatens push to end pandemic. How experts say NY can stop it
Utica Observer Dispatch online
2021-01-12
“In an ideal world, we would have already been working on this long before the roll out,” said T.S. Harvey, a risk-communication expert and Vanderbilt University associate professor.
First Vaccinations in US Offer New Hope
Voice of America online
2020-12-15
Doses of the first federally approved coronavirus vaccine were administered to front-line health care workers in the United States Monday. That signals what health officials call a significant turn in the fight against the virus that has claimed more than 300,000 lives in the U.S. alone.
Vanderbilt researchers create virtual self-screening tool for COVID-19
WKRN tv
2020-06-02
Vanderbilt University launched a new virtual self-screening tool this week that will help individuals assess their risk of being infected with COVID-19.
In addition, the app could expedite testing and collection of public health data.
Both T.S. Harvey, associate professor of anthropology and expert in risk reduction and global public health and Thomas Scherr, a research professor of chemistry and expert in mobile health, are hoping to give people access to resources, understand who COVID-19 is impacting and how it evolves over time.
