On December 10, 2024, the NYC Pandemic Response Institute (PRI) hosted its second Data Expo, convening stakeholders from government, academia, the business, and community organizations to reflect on and brainstorm solutions to enhance data-sharing practices,...
The NYC Pandemic Response Institute (PRI) continues to lead efforts to prepare New York City for future public health emergencies. We are in the midst of conducting a multicomponent, mixed-methods review of the health emergency response to COVID-19 across society...
We are excited to announce a unique opportunity to shape the future of public health preparedness and response (PHPR) in our region. We are seeking a diverse group of individuals to join the Regional Coordinating Body (RCB) for the newly established Region 2 Center...
The NYC Pandemic Response Institute invites you to join us for a webinar exploring the challenges of advancing the provision of quality health information in an era with deterioration of trust in our institutions, media and the purveyors of public health and...
PRI is co-sponsoring this edition of ICAP Grand Rounds, The Marburg Virus: Outbreak Status and Response in Rwanda. Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a severe, often fatal illness that is clinically similar to the Ebola virus disease. An extremely virulent disease, MVD...
Earlier this year, the NYC Pandemic Response Institute invited a group of multisectoral stakeholders to the first of a series of Data Expos, to reflect on past data sharing practices and guide future partnerships before, during, and after public health emergencies....
PRI Also Awarded Funding to Support Coordination of National Network of Regional Centers NEW YORK, NY (October 17, 2024) – The NYC Pandemic Response Institute (PRI) at ICAP at Columbia University has been awarded a five-year cooperative agreement from the Centers...
Climate change, accelerating for several decades, is producing major threats to human health around the world. Despite urgent warnings from the scientific community about the dire consequences of climate change – and what people can do to mitigate it – there...
As the new school year approaches, ensuring that our communities are up-to-date with vaccinations is more important than ever. Join us for an informative webinar focused on the critical topic of back-to-school vaccinations, including the latest updates on bird flu,...
As you are likely aware, there is an ongoing outbreak of Mpox in DRC with a specific clade of the virus with some cases reported in neighboring countries as well as a handful of cases reported from other countries. We have created this fact sheet to provide...
On August 27, 2024, ICAP will present the Grand Rounds – Is the Next Pandemic Already Here? The Looming Threat of H5N1. The number of new cases of illness caused by the H5N1 virus– Avian Flu – has been steadily increasing in recent months. Health...
The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change: Pandemics, Protests, and Possibilities, co-authored by renowned feminist philosopher Jordan Pascoe and PRI Director Mitch Stripling, a public health crisis response expert, explores the profound ways in which...
A new publication authored by CUNY SPH senior leadership and staff, including Danielle Greene, PRI Chief Operating Officer for CUNY SPH, portrays the challenges and successes of the CUNY Recovery Corps (CRC), a virtual call center, established to help New Yorkers...
PRI Workforce Capacity and Preparedness Faculty Co-Lead Rachael Piltch-Loeb and PRI Communications Co-Lead Scott Ratzan with fellow CUNY SPH Faculty Denis Nash write in an opinion piece in The Hill about the recent third human case of H5N1 infection in the U.S.,...
While it found that global uptake of at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose was robust, a new survey published in Nature Medicine revealed mixed signals about the current acceptance of vaccines generally, especially COVID-19 boosters. The new survey of 23,000...
The far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic underscore the critical need for evidence-informed, transparent and inclusive decision-making. Policy-makers have grappled with complex choices amidst uncertainty. They have constantly reassessed response measures...
Early last week, the New York City Pandemic Response Institute (PRI) held its inaugural Advisory Council meeting, bringing together a diverse group of leaders to guide the institute's mission of preparing the city for future public health threats. The Council,...
Firefly Innovations, the premier public health entrepreneurship platform of the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, in collaboration with the New York City Pandemic Response Institute, is proud to announce the winners...
A new study in JAMA Network Open led by researchers from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, including PRI Innovation and Scaling Faculty Member Terry Huang, observed 28,322 park users across 54 neighborhood parks and found a clear...
The NYC Pandemic Response Institute (PRI), in partnership with Columbia Engineering and the City University of New York (CUNY), is pleased to announce an upcoming opportunity for innovators in public health and engineering to submit collaborative proposals for...
Researchers, including PRI Epidemiology and Modeling Co-Lead Wan Yang, recently published an article in Scientific Reports entitled "Cancer incidence trends in New York State and associations with common population-level exposures 2010–2018: an ecological study."...
Contrary to some claims, laws that criminalize or otherwise punish drug use during pregnancy are more likely to worsen rather than improve health outcomes, according to a paper by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The study is the...
Firefly Innovations, the premier public health entrepreneurship platform of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, in partnership with the New York City Pandemic Response Institute (PRI) announce the Grand Challenge Competition for...
In an article recently published in BMC Public Health entitled Evaluating completion rates of COVID-19 contact tracing surveys in New York City, authors, including PRI Epidemiology and Modeling Co-Lead Jeffrey Shaman and PRI Faculty Member Sen Pei, identified...
The American Medical Association's Embedding Equity in Crisis Preparedness and Response in Health Systems guide, made in collaboration with a number of organizations*, including the NYC Pandemic Response Institute, supports health care professionals in embedding...
The New York City Pandemic Response Institute (PRI) marked a significant milestone toward its mission of advancing racial equity, building resilience, and promoting public health preparedness throughout NYC and around the globe by formally convening its Governing...
In an editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine, CUNY SPH Distinguished Lecturer & PRI Communications Faculty Co-Lead Scott Ratzan and colleagues call for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to “raise its persuasive communications game” on...
Editor's Note: This study was developed in support of the NYC Pandemic Response Institute (PRI). A new study suggests once developed, having a universal vaccine in advance of the next coronavirus epidemic/pandemic can save up to 7 million hospitalizations and 2...
Editor's Note: This is not a PRI-specific event, but the series is instructed by Mitch Stripling, Director of the NYC Pandemic Response Institute. COVID-19 challenged traditional ideas of “public health preparedness” and exposed tragic gaps in the way institutions...
The concept of community resilience, society’s ability to maintain essential functions, despite disturbance, is a cornerstone of public health preparedness. In an article recently published in Health Security entitled Parasitic Resilience: The Next Phase of...
Editor's Note: One of the authors of the article referenced is Jeffrey Shaman, PRI Epidemiology and Modeling Co-Lead. In a Priority Data Letter recently published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers explore the epidemiology of suicide among Black...
In a new study co-authored by PRI Epidemiology and Modeling Co-Lead (Columbia MSPH/CPID), Jeffrey Shaman, researchers explore community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the Delta wave in New York City. The Delta variant (B.1.617.2) emerged in late 2020 and became...
The public health and healthcare workforce is shrinking. Nationally, an estimated 80,000 new hires are needed in order for state and local health departments to continue providing core public health services. New York State, and many other jurisdictions, has...
The relevance of climate change on human health is largely underappreciated across many groups. Communicating the health consequences of climate change can help individuals and communities better prepare, cope and adapt to climate-driven health threats. The...
The "tripledemic” of winter 2022 resulted in more than 100,000 deaths in the US over four months. Vaccination against COVID-19, Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) can protect against severe illness and complications such as hospitalization and death....
Dear Pandemic is a web and social platform created in March 2020 after the founders, public health researchers, became inundated with queries about COVID-19 from family and friends. Looking back at their experience, Dear Pandemic (now Those Nerdy Girls) team...
The CUNY SPH Center for Immigrant, Refugee and Global Health (CIRGH) and the NYC Pandemic Response Institute invite leaders and staff of migrant-serving (and related) organizations in New York City and State to join us for a webinar on October 18, 2023 from...
Wildfire events have become more severe over the past 30 years, with smoke emissions potentially impacting the health of most of the country. Preclinical research has helped understand how inhaled toxicants from biomass combustion lead to indirect toxicity to the...
A study led by researchers at the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (CUNY ISPH) at CUNY SPH, including Associate Professor Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, member of PRI's Racial Equity and Social Determinants of Health team, reveals...
This June 2022 study conducted in New York City (NYC) and the United States (US) aimed to assess differences in attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination, vaccine mandates, and pandemic-related information. The study included 500 respondents from NYC and 1,000...
A study by CUNY SPH researchers suggests that federal measures supporting free testing and treatment for COVID-19 may have lessened the health care impact of the pandemic and prevented an increase in racial/ethnic health disparities. In a study published...
The 2022 mpox outbreak highlighted a need for better diagnostic options for future outbreaks and epidemics. This is not just a technical challenge. Designing and implementing an effective and equitable strategy for mpox diagnostics requires technical expertise,...
The following letter (download) was sent by the PRI Co-Leads urging President Biden to provide resources for NYC to address migrant and asylum seeker crisis. August 22, 2023 President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.The White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,...
The NYC Pandemic Response Institute's Community Convening and Learning Team (CCLT) led by the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy conducted an environmental scan to document the research activities carried out by community-based organizations...
CUNY SPH Dean Ayman El-Mohandes speaks with Health Reporter and NY1 Anchor Erin Billups about what you can do to avoid the new surge of COVID in NYC. He also comments on the new treatment for RSV in infants.
In new commentary in the journal AIDS, two renowned public health experts review lessons learned and articulate a necessary vision for tomorrow.
ication: International Perspectives, have collaborated to release a special issue entitled Leaving No One Behind: Opportunities for improving future pandemic-related communication.
A new study published in the Journal of Urban Health by CUNY SPH doctoral student Thinh Vu and faculty Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, Deborah Levine (PRI Community Convening and Learning Co-Lead), Luisa N. Borrell and Victoria K. Ngo found that high rates of alcohol misuse...
In New York City, during the frigid winter months, apartments and public spaces must be kept heated to a certain temperature. However, in the summer months, where heatwaves, one of the leading weather-related causes of death in the United States, have become a...
PRI Director Mitch Stripling and PRI COO for CUNY SPH, Danielle Greene, speak with Soul Lounge Primetime about PRI, what we learned during the pandemic, and how PRI works to fulfill its mission of advancing racial equity, building resiliency, and promoting public...
Note: This Webinar has ended, you can watch a recording of the livestream below. With the COVID-19 Federal Public Health Emergency (FPHE) scheduled to end on May 11, 2023, there are still many unanswered questions around how this transition will impact everyone....
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the public’s mental health and well-being in a variety of ways, including through grief and illness, isolation and loneliness, and job loss and financial instability. Columbia World Projects and collaborating organizations will...
Join ICAP on April 18, 2023, for their April Grand Rounds webinar on strategies and best practices for addressing health misinformation and reducing its spread online. At the event, participants will hear from Emily K. Vraga, the Don and Carole Larson Professor in...
In an article published in the CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, PRI Epidemiology and Modeling Co-Lead Sen Pei led a group of researchers, including fellow co-lead Jeffrey Shaman in examining the utility of real-time forecasting models for...
Pandemics, floods, earthquakes, major accidents, war. The kinds of disasters that strike societies are extraordinarily different. Yet, they tend to share one common feature: they hit the poorest and most marginalized members of society the hardest. Sadly, all too...
It is estimated that about 40% of people diagnosed with mpox in the United States are also living with HIV. It is unclear if having HIV increases the likelihood of getting mpox infection, but those living with advanced or untreated HIV are at increased risk of...
Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to appoint six experts to the National Cancer Advisory Board, which plays an important role in guiding the Director of the National Cancer Institute in setting the course for the national cancer research program. Among those named was Ana Navas-Acien.
Newly published commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine presents much-needed perspective on the pandemic and where we go from here.
Findings from new 23-country survey can help policymakers address vaccine hesitancy.
Published by Jeffrey V Lazarus (PRI Faculty), Salim S Abdool Karim, Carolina Batista, Kenneth Rabin, and Ayman El-Mohandes (PRI-Co-Lead) Since the start of the covid-19 vaccination rollout, repeated concerns have been raised about global vaccine inequity. In an...
We are soon to face another winter with COVID-19. This year, it’s accompanied with surging numbers of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases, which will make accessing and communicating risk to the public more complex. With this in mind, the NYC...
The Monkeypox outbreak has been public health’s first major test of handling an infectious outbreak since COVID, and it remains to be seen if we’ve learned our lessons about communicating prevention. Watch this conversation around the theme of Monkeypox and its...
As we approach the third winter since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unknown how COVID-19 will impact the 2022-23 school year. In an editorial in the in the American Journal of Public Health, CUNY SPH Assistant Professor Chloe Teasdale and Associate...
The New York City Pandemic Response Institute (PRI) represents a landmark endeavor operated by ICAP at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in partnership with CUNY School of Public Health and other academic, community, government and corporate...
During the PRI launch event, we convened a roundtable of partners from across the city and sectors of society to identify key themes of focus for PRI. As a follow-up, we created a survey, shared widely, in order to help prioritize the identified themes. These were...
Editor's Note: A version of this article was originally published by CUNY SPH. While significant scientific and medical advances have been made in the fight against COVID-19, the virus remains a major public health threat. The global response has been fraught with...
A study led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health uses contact tracing data to produce a detailed map to date of SARS-CoV-2 spread in New York City. They found that the city’s contact tracing program was efficient and produced data that can inform neighborhood-level interventions like vaccination and reactive restrictions on business capacity.
During 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the delivery of HIV prevention and treatment services globally. To mitigate the negative consequences of the pandemic, service providers and communities adapted and accelerated an array of HIV interventions to meet the...
To ensure that all New Yorkers are poised and empowered to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from future health crises, Columbia University (CU) is leading the launch and operation of the Pandemic Response Institute (PRI). This is conducted in...
In a recent interview, U.S. President Joe Biden stated: “The pandemic is over.” This comment, while not without controversy, echoed what so many want to believe, that the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us and that it is time to return to “normal. Explore why COVID-19 remains and will remain a factor affecting the health and well-being of people across the world in this editorial written by PRI Leads Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr & Dr. Ayman El-Mohandes.
Despite gains in human rights, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) community continues to face discrimination, familial rejection, mental health and substance use disorders, as well as smoking, and limited access to health services. LGBTQ+...
Every year, the American Public Health Association (APHA) honors excellence in public health leadership and innovation, from state and local health officials to those speaking up for public health from the halls of Congress. This year’s awards will be presented...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact daily life, including health system operations, despite the availability of vaccines that are effective in greatly reducing the risks of death and severe disease. Misperceptions of COVID-19 vaccine safety, efficacy, risks,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) developed public health taxonomy for social listening on monkeypox conversations to better understand how the multi-country outbreak of monkeypox is perceived, understood and discussed. WHO intends the taxonomy to be used to...
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recently announced that PRI Racial Equity and Social Determinants of Health Co-Lead & Columbia Mailman School of Public Health associate professor of epidemiology, Dustin Duncan , ScD, has been named...
To ensure that all New Yorkers are poised and empowered to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from future health crises, Columbia University (CU) is leading the launch and operation of the Pandemic Response Institute (PRI). This is conducted in...
A new survey by CUNY SPH of 2,500 New Yorkers reveals clear differences among the boroughs in vaccine and booster uptake, childhood vaccination, treatment when sick and general trust in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified excessive COVID-19-related information as a public health crisis, calling it an “infodemic.” The infodemic has been exacerbated by uncertainties inherent in an emerging infectious disease and the scientific process more generally. Together with inconsistent governmental messaging, these factors have led to challenges in delivering accurate, timely, and trusted information to the public.
PRI provides situational updates on the monkeypox (orthopoxvirus) outbreak. Visit our website every Tuesday and Thursday for the latest editions. Summary Case Counts/Trends and Large Guidance/Response Changes (Limited by latest reporting) GLOBAL: From 1 January...
Even as COVID-19 has stubbornly continued to disrupt the lives of people around the world, the unexpected outbreak of another virus has signaled a new public health threat. Cases of monkeypox — long known to cause outbreaks of illness in Central and West Africa —...
Contact tracing is a recognized public health measure for controlling the transmission of infectious diseases. It entails locating, isolating, and managing individuals who have an infectious disease, identifying individuals that they have come in contact with, and...
Update: This event has ended, but you can watch the livestream on YouTube, or via the embed below! The spread of monkeypox (orthopoxvirus), like the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus and other infectious diseases, has been accompanied by the spread of much...
Announcing “Leaving No One Behind: Opportunities for improving future pandemic-related communication.” A special issue of the Journal of Health Communication that will be curated by the PRI Communication Team, and led by Christopher Palmedo, PhD, MBA. The COVID-19...
The following letter (download) was sent by the PRI Co-Leads urging current HHS Secretary Becerra, FDA Commissioner Califf, and CDC Director Walensky to increase availability and access to JYNNEOS vaccine and to reduce the barriers to prescribing TPOXX. An...
Because of the public health impacts of the Dobbs decision, PRI supports the Bans Off Our Bodies Walkout. The Bans Off Our Bodies Walkout is a national day of action to amplify the fight for abortion rights across the U.S., show support for abortion providers, and...
Update: We have added a recording of the webinar below! Join us for a webinar to discuss the current Monkeypox outbreak, with experts from around the world. The event will include discussion of the epidemiology, clinical features, prevention and management of...
A new 23-country study by a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the journal Vaccine sheds light on the factors that contribute to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among healthcare providers. The survey was administered to 23,000 adults in Brazil, Canada, China,...
In a new article published in the Public Health Reports Journal, Columbia University Professor Robert Fullilove, EdD and Teacher's College graduate student (at time of publication) David May, MA, discuss the linkages between depression, HIV, and COVID-19, in what...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today launched the New York City Pandemic Response Institute, a new partnership with Columbia University and CUNY SPH to help New York City learn from the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and tackle the urgent public health emergencies currently facing New Yorkers — from infectious diseases to climate-related events.
Since February of 2020, New York City has lost over 30,000 residents to COVID-19 and experienced job losses higher than any other city in the United States. Over the course of the pandemic, major inequities across race and ethnicity, age, and class have highlighted...
Almost 40 percent of New York City parents are hesitant to vaccinate their young children for COVID-19, according to a new study by researchers at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH). For the study, which was published Thursday in...