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....
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...
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...
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...
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.