The COVID Comparative Project at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy features 16 country case studies conducted by University of Toronto undergraduate students (including students from our Munk One program), under the supervision of Professor Joseph Wong.
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Preparing for the next pandemic...that is already here. (An introduction to the COVID Comparative Project by Joseph Wong)
German Pandemic Efficiency: Fiscal Capacity, Logistical Coordination, and Infrastructure by Zoë Johnson
Contradictory Messaging and Uncoordinated Response has Skyrocketed COVID-19 Cases in Brazil by Purushoth Thavendran
COVID-19 Federalism: Disparate Government Responses in Canada by Marium Nur Vahed
Overcompensation or Necessary Precaution? Tracing China’s Response to COVID-19 by Hui Wen Zheng
India in the Pandemic: Successful States vs Flailing Central Government by Aryan Dhar
Ghana: Testing Innovations Against Economic Limitations by Andrew Yin
Amidst Political and Economic Turmoil, Iran’s COVID-19 Response Signals the Dangers of Deprioritizing Public Health by Hui Wen Zheng
Israel’s Response to COVID-19: Pitfalls of a Political Pandemic by Astrid Ling
Just One Step Behind: Analyzing the Italian Government’s Response to COVID-19 by Martina Facchin
Setting the precedent in unprecedented times: The “Taiwan model” for combatting COVID-19 by Elizabeth Shaw
Pandemic in the Land of a Thousand Hills: Rwanda and COVID-19 by Cheikh Ameth Tidiane Diop
Efficiency and its Limits – Singapore’s Covid-19 Response by Katie Kwang
From MERS to COVID-19: The South Korean Journey by Emma Rogers
Abandoning the Vulnerable: Unequal Impacts of Sweden’s COVID-19 Response by Abhayjeet Singh Sachal
No Country Is an Island, but the UK Insists Otherwise by Naomi Butterfield
A Political Pandemic: Partisanship and Chaos in the American COVID-19 Response by Liam Keating