In the Media
Feb 22, 2023 | In the Media
“We still have a ways to go,” said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiologist who has worked in Africa for decades.
Feb 14, 2023 | In the Media
“I was very pleased to hear him acknowledge that COVID is not gone. I felt that it was important for him to say that,” said ICAP’s Jessica Justman.
Feb 14, 2023 | In the Media
“There is a disconnect between the broad perception that the pandemic is behind us, and focusing on getting back to life as it was pre-pandemic,” says Wafaa El-Sadr, founder and director of ICAP at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. “But the...
Feb 14, 2023 | In the Media
“Twenty years later, sometimes it’s hard for people to appreciate what the world was like in sub-Saharan Africa then,” El-Sadr said of her visits there. “I remember before PEPFAR, walking the hospital wards in Southern Africa countries. It was...
Feb 14, 2023 | In the Media
“We’ve had 40 years of the HIV epidemic, and there really have only been about five strategies that have been tested in a clinical trial setting,” Dr. Jessica Justman, an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, told Yahoo News. “So it just...
Jan 25, 2023 | In the Media
“We do, sadly, still have more deaths related to COVID than I think is acceptable,” Dr. Jessica Justman, an infectious disease physician at Columbia University and senior technical director of the ICAP global health program. “[But] I will say we are in a much better...