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...
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,...
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...
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 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 "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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...