Book Title: Public Policy Responses to the Pandemic, and Building Back Better

Authors: Ryerson Leadership Lab and Karim Bardeesy

Book Description: Public Policy Responses to the Pandemic, and Building Back Better is an interdisciplinary virtual learning experience about the Canadian policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the debate around whether, and how, to “build back better” — to use the occasion of the pandemic to bring in other fundamental policy reforms.

License:
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial

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Book Information

Book Description

What are the health, economic, and social policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic?

How did these choices arise?

What comes next?

COVID-19 has sparked rapid policy responses to gaps in our social, economic and political foundations. The learnings from this crisis, and the solutions to help Canada rebuild, need to be captured as it plays out in real time.

Public Policy Responses to the Pandemic, and Building Back Better is an interdisciplinary virtual learning experience about the Canadian policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the debate around whether, and how, to “build back better” — to use the occasion of the pandemic to bring in other fundamental policy reforms.

You will learn the economic and social impacts of, and responses to, COVID-19 in Ontario and across Canada — as well as the ideas, tools, and skills available for each of us to shape the recovery.

Together we will explore a variety of topics:

  • how long-term and temporary income support programs provided assistance for basic living expenses and helped prepare individuals for finding work;
  • what gaps and perspectives are missing in the health and healthcare system to help us understand the transmission and spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and SARS;
  • what we need to do to help people inform themselves and not be misled; and
  • whether Canada should, or even can, radically rethink some of its policies coming out of the pandemic.

Authors

Ryerson Leadership Lab and Karim Bardeesy

License

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Public Policy Responses to the Pandemic, and Building Back Better Copyright © 2022 by Ryerson Leadership Lab is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Subject

Public administration

Metadata

Title
Public Policy Responses to the Pandemic, and Building Back Better
Authors
Ryerson Leadership Lab and Karim Bardeesy
Editors
Dino Sossi; Julie Mai; Camara Chambers; Stevie Jonathan; and Lateisha Ugwuegbula
Reviewers
Julie Mai; Camara Chambers; and Raisa Chowdhury
Illustrator
Zijun Li
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Public Policy Responses to the Pandemic, and Building Back Better Copyright © 2022 by Ryerson Leadership Lab is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Public administration
Additional Subject(s)
Public health and preventive medicine, Economics
Publisher
Ryerson Leadership Lab
Publication Date
February 28, 2022