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May 19, 2021 | News
A recently published a community health guide, Helping Children Live with HIV, includes contributions from core leadership at ICAP. Elaine Abrams, MD, ICAP’s senior research director, served as a medical consultant and updated biomedical information on testing and...
May 19, 2021 | In the Media, News
In a clinical trial, ICAP researchers and colleagues suggest convalescent plasma may improve survival with severe COVID-19. The study was led by investigators from the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Columbia...
May 19, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA highlights the epidemiology of COVID-19 as the government reopens New York. “We have to keep reminding ourselves, we are in a good place in New York,” said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiologist at the Columbia Mailman School of Public...
May 19, 2021 | News, Stories from the Field
As Myanmar grappled to navigate its fragile health care system through the devastations of the COVID-19 pandemic, a military takeover of government began in Myanmar on February 1, 2021, disrupting health services even more. Community-based health services – using peer...
May 18, 2021 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD contributes to a list of tips on how to safely shop during COVID-19. “Justman agrees with White House Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anthony Fauci: Two masks are indeed better than one. “Double-mask and try to avoid stores that are too crowded,” she...
May 18, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA weighs in on need for sequencing positive COVID-19 tests to track variants. “We don’t know very much about new variants,” Dr. Wafaa el-Sadr, an epidemiologist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, told the Times. “Yes,...