Contact the Fefferman Lab
Our lab has been asked to comment in the past both on the record and to provide background insights on threats to public health, vaccination practices and acceptance, virtual worlds and biomedical research, emerging technologies, basic and translational science research, and disease surveillance and biosecurity.
To contact us about these or related topics, please call or email:
These are a mixture of times we've been asked to comment on the state of the world or other researcher's work, and when the coverage is of our own work itself.
Television/Online Video Broadcasts |
| WVLT: |
Rare mosquito disease finds home in Tennessee, while mosquito season lengthens |
| CGTN: |
Protesters risk COVID-19 for change |
| The Washington Post: |
World of Warcraft experienced a pandemic in 2005. That experience may help coronavirus researchers. |
| WBIR: |
Paying attention to commuting patterns can help stop mosquito-borne illnesses |
| NJTV: |
The Science Behind What We Find Cute |
| The Discovery Channel: |
In 2011 Members of our lab were featured in How Stuff Works: Games Unboxed |
| BBC World News: |
(no web broadcast available) |
| CBS: |
Virtual Epidemic, Real-Life Scenarios |
| Canada Television (CTV): |
'Virtual plague' could provide real-life
lessons (broadcast link on page right, under Video) |
| AT&T Tech Channel |
(web broadcast no longer available) |
Radio Broadcasts |
| New Tech City: |
Containing Ebola Like They Did in This Video Game |
BBC UK News: |
Virtual game is a 'disease model' (link beneath image, under Listen) |
| National Public Radio: |
'Virtual' Virus Sheds Light on Real-World Behavior (link under Listen) |
| NPR Science Friday: |
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Lives (under Archived Audio on right) |
| AM900 CHML: |
(web broadcast no longer available) |
Print/Online Media |
| Southerly: | Alabama deems execution an 'essential function' while leading in COVID-19 deaths per capita |
| Politico: | POLITICO Nightly, 2/3/21 |
| Smithsonian Magazine: | In Social Insects, Researchers Find Clues for Battling Pandemics |
| ABCnews: | ACLU study linked to jails projects coronavirus deaths double US government estimates |
| The Guardian: | 'Really scary': experts fear protests and police risk accelerating Covid-19 spread |
| The Marshall Project: | What COVID-19 Prison Outbreaks Could Teach Us About Herd Immunity |
| The Wall Street Journal: | ACLU Presses Prisons for Coronavirus Infection Data |
| Politico: | POLITICO Nightly: Coronavirus Special Edition, 5/21/20 |
| Politico: | POLITICO Nightly: Coronavirus Special Edition, 4/16/20 |
| Newsweek: | Coronavirus Could Claim 100,000 More Lives Than Expected if Jail Populations Are Not Reduced, Study Finds |
| Politico: | What Colorado is getting right about reopening? |
| Scientific American: | World War IIs Warsaw Ghetto Holds Lifesaving Lessons for COVID-19 |
| The Telegraph: | Corrupted Blood and coronavirus: what World of Warcraft can tell us about the spread of disease |
| Health Feedback: | People who do not show symptoms can contribute to significant COVID-19 transmission, contrary to CNBC report |
| UNILAD: | A Virtual Outbreak On World Of Warcraft Taught Us A Lot About How Humans Behave In Pandemics |
| YAHOO Entertainment: | Experts Say It's 'Not Sustainable' to Order All Exposed Healthcare Workers to Self-Quarantine |
| WIRED: | Real-World Lessons From a World of Warcraft Virtual Outbreak |
| WGBH: | Scarcity Of Health Workers A New Concern As Self-Quarantining Spreads With Virus |
| VICE: | How World of Warcraft Predicted the Conflict Dividing Society Right Now |
| MedPage Today's KevinMD: | Self-quarantines will lead to health worker shortages |
| PC Gamer: | The researchers who once studied WoW's Corrupted Blood plague are now fighting the coronavirus |
| ARS Technica: | What a WoW virtual outbreak taught us about how humans behave in epidemics |
| JUNKEE: | Here's How A 'World of Warcraft' Pandemic Could Help Us Better Understand Coronavirus |
| The Conversation: | Hard Evidence: will climate change affect the spread of tropical diseases? |
| Knox News: | Outspoken East Tennessee white nationalist at Fort Sanders rally once active in Occupy, communist groups |
| Philly.com: | Rutgers Professor Uses Games to Study How People Behave During Outbreaks |
| Paste Magazine: | Plague Inc. and Ebola: The Unsettling Realism of Epidemic Simulators |
| Medical News Today: | 'Numerous effects' of climate change on tropical diseases |
| ABC News: | Online 'Pandemic' a Virtual Gold Mine for Epidemiologists |
| TIME: | World of Warcraft: A Pandemic Lab? |
| Forbes: |
(article no longer available online) |
| Reuters: | Gamers' world reveals secrets of the next epidemic |
| Canadian Press (via CBC) |
(article no longer available online) |
| FOX News | Online-Game Plague Could Help Scientists Track Real Epidemics |
| The Economist: | Virtual plague and the real world |
| New Scientist: | Virtual outbreaks, real world ramifications |
| New Scientist: | Real-world use of virtual epidemics |
