COVID-19
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
In mid-March, producers from New York Times’ television show, The Weekly, approached Lawrence Purpura, MD, MPHTM, MS, and his wife Saleena Subaiya, MD, about being featured in an episode of the new documentary series that would focus on COVID-19 first responders....
May 22, 2020 | In the Media, News
On May 22, WBUR’s “Here & Now” interviewed Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, ICAP’s global director, about the state of the COVID-19 pandemic, after the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide surpassed 5 million, with most of the new cases coming from...
May 22, 2020 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, is quoted in a May 22 New York Times article on the potential COVID-19 risks of summer camps. Day camps pose an extra unknown in terms of risk because campers and staff return to their families each night where...