Category: Affiliated Projects

Participants: Svenn-Erik Mamelund, Hampton Gaddy, Diego Ramiro Farinas, Jonas Wangsmo, Ole Georg Moseng, Vibeke Nyborg Narverud, Benjamin Schneider, Elienai Damas, Gerardo Chowel, Vera Østensen, Uddhav Khakurel (Photo: Helene Ramnæs)

On 4th of December, we held a small, policy-relevant workshop to present findings from our Short-Term residential fellowship at CAS (November-December 2025) and to celebrate the 5-year anniversary of the Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society (PANSOC).

Program for the workshop on Indigenous Peoples & Pandemics: Data Completeness & Vaccine Access Disparities, Turret room at https://cas-nor.no/, Drammensveien 78, 0271 Oslo.

12:00-12:45 Lunch at Home Hotel Gabelshus | Oslo | Strawberry, Gabels gate 16, 0272, Oslo – a 5 minutes walk from CAS.

13:00-13:10 Svenn-Erik Mamelund (OsloMet), Welcome remarks

13:10-13:30 Diego Ramiro Fariñas (CSIC, Madrid), 5-year anniversary of the Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society (PANSOC): Impact on science and policy

13:30-14:15 Damas/Chowell (Georgia State University), Differential timing of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts across Mexican municipalities. Discussant: Diego Ramiro Fariñas

14:15-14:45 Coffee Break

14:45-15:30 Hampton Gaddy (LSE), Completeness of mortality data at the time of the 1918-20 influenza pandemic in Alaska. Discussant: Diego Ramiro Fariñas

15:30-16:00 Future collaborations

16:00-17:30: Coffee Break, socializing etc., read e-mails, check social media.

17:30- Dinner will be served in the Turret room at https://cas-nor.no/

PANSOC is at Centre for Advanced Research at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on a Short-Term Fellowship in November and December 2025. You can read more here: “Coming Home”: Svenn-Erik Mamelund Returns to CAS for a Short-Term Fellowship | CAS

Two years after completing his CAS project on Indigenous vulnerability to pandemics, Svenn-Erik Mamelund and parts of the old team is back at the centre — picking up threads that remain vital to understanding both past and present health crises.

Why does it feel like coming home when returning to Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters? I am here interviewed by Julie Ellinor Frølich Dalseth and give my answer to this question and explain the new research we do as part of a Short-Term Fellowship at CAS in November and December 2025:

“Coming Home”: Svenn-Erik Mamelund Returns to CAS for a Short-Term Fellowship | CAS

In fierce competition with other research environments, we have just been offered a Short-Term residential fellowship at Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for the two months of November and December 2025.

Together with three fellows (Gerardo Chowell, Georgia State University, Elienai Joaquin-Damas, Oslo Metropolitan University and Hampton Gaddy, London School of Economics), Centre leader Svenn-Erik Mamelund will use the CAS residency to finalize two publications stemming from our previous participation in the 2022–2023 CAS project Social Science Meets Biology.

The two new papers will analyze “Differential timing of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts across Mexican municipalities” and “Completeness of mortality data at the time of the 1918-20 influenza pandemic in Alaska“.

Our time at CAS will also be used to host a small, policy-relevant workshop to present these findings and celebrate the 5-year anniversary of the Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society (PANSOC).

We at PANSOC are so happy and proud to announce that one of our Post-docs, Benjamin Schneider, has been selected for the Young CAS fellowship porogram 2022-2024.

Yo can read more about Bens project here: Introducing the Young CAS Fellows 2023/2024 – CAS