COVID-19
Apr 25, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, ICAP’s global director, is quoted in an April 25 article in Indian outlet The Print examining why South Asia is experiencing lower COVID-19 infection rates than other areas of the world: “The way respiratory viruses like the novel...
Apr 23, 2020 | News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval to the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health to launch clinical trials to determine whether blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors can be used to prevent...
Apr 22, 2020 | News
A health worker wears a “Test Until Zero” vest while working at a COVID-19 screening tent at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) in Kisumu, Kenya As the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, ICAP at Columbia...
Apr 22, 2020 | In the Media, News
An April 22 MarketWatch article quotes Susan Michaels-Strasser, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, ICAP’s senior director of human resources for health (HRH) development, on the power of testing and contact tracing for epidemic control in the face of COVID-19. Had [contact tracing]...
Apr 21, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP, is quoted in an April 22 Global Times article on the disparate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic along racial and ethnic lines. Data from the US show there are differences in the infection rate among different racial...