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Combating COVID-19 Virtually: A Student Organization Perspective on Becoming Involved in the COVID-19 Response

Posted on March 23, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Paige Harton and Katelin Reishus As the COVID-19 epidemic has continued to evolve, the Emory Student Outbreak and Response Team (SORT) at the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) has coordinated with our members and with local, state, and federal agencies to evaluate how SORT can be of service during this crisis. In addition to supporting local public health institutions,

COVID-19: Future Scenarios and Health Care Capacity

Posted on March 22, 2020 by jphmpdirect

Drs. Lloyd Novick and John Marr continue their conversation about COVID-19, picking up this time on the subjects of flattening the curve of the epidemic and allocating personal protective equipment (PPE) and other necessary life-saving resources desperately needed by large and small hospitals across the country. Listen to their previous conversation here. FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ABOUT COVID-19: Refer

Thoughts on Adaptive Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted on March 19, 2020 by jphmpdirect

This entry is part 4 of 17 in the series Management Moments

by Edward L. Baker MD, MPH; Robert Irwin, MA; and Gene Matthews, JD As public health leaders around the globe work to provide leadership in these challenging times, each day will present new or recurring leadership challenges. Some lessons learned from prior outbreaks may serve as useful guideposts. However, the coronavirus outbreak has, in important respects, presented unprecedented challenges. Therefore,

Managing Close Contacts of COVID-19 Confirmed Cases in Metropolitan Areas in China: A Community-Driven Preparedness Strategy

Posted on March 19, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Jing Ding, BM, MS; Wen-Jan Tuan, MS, MPH, DHA; and Jonathan L. Temte, MD, PhD The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has rapidly spread across the world since it was first reported in late December 2019 in the People’s Republic of China. The rapid and wide distribution of the disease has not only become a serious public health challenge but

Q&A with Bahareh Ansari: One International Student’s Experience and Advice During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted on March 19, 2020 by jphmpdirect

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the daily lives of Americans and citizens around the world who are practicing social distancing to help stem the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. For international students living abroad in host countries, the stress and anxiety can be even more unnerving than for those of us who are required to work or school from

Determining Actual Death Rate from COVID-19 in the US

Posted on March 17, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Mohamed Al-Ibrahim, MB ChB, FACP There is great concern about the effects of COVID-19 in the United States population. Unfortunately, there are no helpful mortality estimates; there is simply no readily useful denominator. We will not get much further until we have accurate numbers for sero-positivity in the general population. This will take months. The sero-positivity in respiratory viral illness

The Impact of State and Local Sodium Reduction Laws

Posted on March 17, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Katherine Bishop Kendrick Most of the sodium we eat comes from processed, prepackaged, and restaurant foods, not the salt we add in our home cooking. It’s easy to consume much more than the recommended amounts because we don’t have control over the sodium in many of our foods. Since sodium is “hidden” within our diets, addressing sodium intake at

The COVID Denominator

Posted on March 13, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Jason S. Brinkley, PhD, MS, MA COVID-19 is here and with it comes concern and anxiety about the effects on America. Central in peoples’ mind are questions of risk. How likely am I to get it? How likely am I to die from it? There are a lot of measures related to virus epidemiology, but the most fundamental are

COVID-19: Podcast with Dr. Lloyd Novick and Dr. John Marr

Posted on March 12, 2020 by jphmpdirect

At the time of this recording, COVID-19 has been declared by the World Health Organization as a global pandemic with confirmed cases in 114 countries, including over 900 cases in the United States. Dr. Lloyd Novick, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and Dr. John Marr, American physician, epidemiologist, and infectious disease outbreak expert, weigh in

Standardizing Financial Information Systems: Implications for Addressing COVID-19

Posted on March 11, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Gulzar H. Shah, PhD, MStat, MS, and Kristie C. Waterfield, DrPH, MBA Health Informatics Innovations and Applications highlights ways that health informatics innovations and applications are supporting stakeholders in public health practice and policy to advance their mission of improved population health. The series highlights innovations in health care informatics. In my encounters with health informatics over the last

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