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Jul 20, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP at Columbia University, spoke to Al Jazeera on July 20 about the experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by scientists at Oxford University, which has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune...
Jul 15, 2020 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, spoke to WNYC on July 15, discussing the need for social distancing even while outdoors, in order to curb the spread of COVID-19. “Try to pay attention to the six foot guidance, which might be hard to...
Jul 15, 2020 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, is quoted in a July 15 Insider Magazine article on the safety of ‘backyard summer camps’ popping up as an alternative to regular summer camps that may be closed or at reduced capacity due to COVID-19:...
Jul 13, 2020 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, is quoted in a July 13 CNN Health article on effective public health messaging to reduce the spread of COVID-19: Dr. Jessica Justman, an infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist at Columbia University and...
Jul 10, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP at Columbia University, is quoted in a July 10 CNN Health article on the potential use of BCG, a common vaccine used globally for tuberculosis prevention, to fight COVID-19: “The nice thing is that it’s...
Jul 9, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP at Columbia University, is one of more than a dozen co-authors on a July 9 Comment in UK medical journal The Lancet criticizing the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health...