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MURTAZA: Hi, my name is
Murtaza Haider and I'm the
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Associate Dean of
Graduate Programs
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at the Ted Rogers
School of Management
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and I'm here with
Steven Kavaratzis
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who is a PhD scholar
and working on his
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doctorate with us.
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And Steven, I understand
you're working on pandemics?
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STEVEN: Syndemics.
MURTAZA: Syndemics? Okay,
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so this is syndemics and
he also told me that there
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is no yet vaccine for it.
What is it?
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STEVEN: So, syndemics
came from this idea of
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wellness and illness
only being studied
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in isolation, so we would
look at one illness
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at a time and really
focus on understanding that
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and it failed to grasp how
illnesses and positive
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mechanisms interact.
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So, if two illnesses are
the reason one of them
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is really bad and we only
are looking at one,
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we failed to understand
the system entirely.
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MURTAZA: Okay, so how
do you apply it to your
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doctoral studies?
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STEVEN: Of course, so
syndemics theory and
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research started
looking at minoritized
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populations that were
especially impacted by
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specific epidemics
and what they noticed
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is that there were pooling
effects that happened
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with things like HIV
and violence and
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substance use and
socioeconomic status.
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And when they looked
at each of those things
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in isolation, they didn't
capture the pooling effect
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of how one illness
