Research
Jul 13, 2021 | News
ICAP and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) have announced funding for two innovative research projects that look to shed new light on notable cancer challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. The grants are the first to be awarded through the recently...
May 17, 2021 | Stories from the Field
Growing up in Cameroon, Rita Sondengam was no stranger to the faces that hide behind the numbers of some of the world’s most pressing public health emergencies like HIV/AIDS, malaria, dysentery, and TB. But for her, these weren’t just statistics, faceless numbers in a...
Apr 16, 2021 | Stories from the Field
As a boy growing up in rural Ethiopia, ICAP’s Tesfay Abreha, DVM, MSc, MPH, and his family dreamed of him becoming a successful lawyer, influenced by an uncle who was a judge. But life had other plans: as a young student, he excelled in science rather than political...
Feb 17, 2021 | News
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) jointly conducted the Antibody Mediated Prevention (AMP) study which tested a new innovation for HIV prevention. Traditionally,...
Feb 10, 2021 | In the Media, News
In light of a viral misrepresentation of a WHO press release alleged to show that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19 caused large scale false positives, ICAP’s Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA was cited as a public health expert in a recent Fact Check...
