On June 22, the Center for Social and Behavioral Science hosted an Ask the Experts: Mental and behavioral health during COVID-19 webinar in partnership with the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute. In this webinar, our faculty experts discussed managing mental health and close relationships during COVID-19. The experts also focused on managing work-life-balance, coping with grief, […]

On June 9, the Center for Social and Behavioral Science and Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute hosted the first session in our Ask the Experts Series on Covid-19 Exposure notification, Privacy, and Security. Our faculty experts discussed the promising potential, uncertainty, and associated privacy risks with using exposure notification technologies to manage the spread of Covid-19. […]

The Center for Social and Behavioral Science recently launched a statewide survey to assess Illinoisians’ attitudes toward technology that may be used to combat COVID-19, including 1) track-and-trace mobile applications, and 2) status indicator applications. Our results indicate that privacy concerns are quite high for both kinds of mobile apps. Favorability toward COVID-19 apps is […]