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May 28, 2020 | In the Media, News
WBEZ, a local Chicago NPR affiliate, quoted Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, director of ICAP at Columbia University, in a May 28 story about incomplete COVID-19 data in the state of Illinois. WBEZ reported that the jobs of those who’ve contracted COVID-19 is unknown in...
May 27, 2020 | News
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact the lives of millions of people worldwide, countries currently facing a low number of cases are taking strict measures to prevent an outbreak. In Zimbabwe, the focus has been on strengthening surveillance, laboratory,...
May 27, 2020 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, explained on the May 27 episode of BRIC TV’s “BHeard” program how COVID-19 has exacerbated NYC’s existing inequities to where race and income have become the greatest factors in the pandemic’s...
May 27, 2020 | News
In April, ICAP was awarded $100,000 from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation to engage and empower frontline health care workers in Eswatini, Ethiopia, and Tanzania to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the spread of COVID-19 steadily increases across sub-Saharan...
May 27, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, director of ICAP at Columbia University, is quoted in a May 27 AP article on the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. exceeding 100,000 people. Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, director of ICAP, a global health center at Columbia University, called the U.S....
May 26, 2020 | News
A passionate and innovative leader who cared about people—that is how family, friends, and colleagues remember the late Fernando Morales, MD, ICAP’s country director in Tanzania. “He had the wildest out-of-the box ideas for public health that ended up being a...