COVID-19
Apr 26, 2020 | In the Media, News
NPR blog Goats & Soda spoke to Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, ICAP’s global director, for an April 26 Q&A on how health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) can adapt strategies to fight COVID-19 given limited resources: For low-income countries...
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 IndiaSpend covering the recent launch of the World Health Organization (WHO) “Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator” to hasten the development, production, and...
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...
