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Jun 6, 2020 | News
Renowned medical journal The Lancet published an obituary for Fernando Morales, MD, who served as ICAP’s country director in Tanzania until his untimely death on May 5, 2020. Each time Wafaa El-Sadr, the Director of ICAP at Columbia University, New York, USA—a...
Jun 5, 2020 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, is quoted in a June 5 Wall Street Journal article on the potential COVID-19 risks of the large protests currently happening across the U.S. in response to the killing of George Floyd. “We could start to see...
Jun 2, 2020 | In the Media, News
Columbia’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), under the direction of Professors Matthew Connelly and Thomas DiPrete, is launching the Center for Pandemic Research (CPR) to mobilize resources and expertise vital to the study of COVID-19. To...
Jun 2, 2020 | In the Media, News
A June 2 New York Times article on national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic quotes Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, director of ICAP at Columbia University: Often, leaders who responded more slowly have cited the need to prioritize economic growth. But the trade-offs...
May 30, 2020 | In the Media, News
Susan Michaels-Strasser, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, ICAP’s senior director of human resources for health (HRH) development, spoke on a webinar hosted by Columbia Global Centers | Beijing on May 30. “In the United States, we have increased our investment in...
May 29, 2020 | In the Media, News
In a May 29 ABC News report on projected mortality rates in the coming months, Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, director of ICAP at Columbia University and professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, said that “it is without a doubt that unfortunately more Americans...