Honoring Our Collective Care, Five Years Later Five years ago, when the pandemic brought NYC to a standstill, it was our communities, neighbors, volunteers, mutual aid networks, and grassroots leaders who stepped up. Together, we delivered food, shared PPE, cared...
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...
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...
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...
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 "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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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+...
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,...
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.
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...
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...
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...