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Apr 21, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA comments on differing antibody rates among Black and Hispanic New Yorkers. The recent data from New York “show how frontline workers bore the brunt of the first wave of the pandemic,” said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and...
Apr 21, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA gives an update on COVID-19 in her interview on The Brian Lehrer Show. Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, university professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and director of ICAP at Columbia...
Apr 20, 2021 | News
In 2020, as the world collectively faced the ever-changing demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, ICAP at Columbia University quickly responded by conducting two baseline SARS-CoV-2 surveillance activities in Malawi and Cameroon. With funding from the U.S. Centers for...
Apr 20, 2021 | News
When Tafadzwa Dzinamarira, PhD, was a child growing up in Zimbabwe, he dreamt of being an educator, just like his mother and father. Yet, after a life-changing moment, this dream took another turn. “My dream career changed when someone I was very close to passed away...
Apr 19, 2021 | In the Media, News
In an Opinion piece with Allie Bohm of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA argues for a closer look at COVID-19 vaccine passports. “We are all anxious to get back to doing things we took for granted a year ago, and vaccine passports...
Apr 19, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA explains the lag in reporting COVID-19 as a cause of death on deaths certificates. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, said the 60-day rule is...