COVID-19
Apr 2, 2020 | In the Media, News
The Guardian featured Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, in an April 2 Q&A on the effectiveness of facemasks for preventing the spread of COVID-19: It’s like a pitcher and a catcher at a baseball game. And the masks are all about trying to keep...
Apr 2, 2020 | In the Media, News
The Atlantic reached out to Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, for an article on best practices for quarantining with roommates. Experts say there are best practices to follow. Don’t share hand towels with roommates, and regularly disinfect...
Apr 1, 2020 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, is quoted in a New York Times article showing how the COVID-19 epidemic in New York City is hitting low-income neighborhoods the hardest. Dr. Jessica Justman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University in Manhattan,...
Mar 31, 2020 | Dear Florence, In the Media, News
Susan Michaels-Strasser, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, ICAP’s senior director for human resources for health, advocates for the protection of nurses and other frontline health workers, sharing her lessons learned from her work during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West...
Mar 29, 2020 | News
At the ICAP-supported Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) in Kisumu, Western Kenya, incoming patients, and hospital staff wash their hands with soap at a long trough sink upon entering the hospital. After washing hands, a nurse, at...
