June 16, 2020 - 1:29pm
In a new COVD-19 Note in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Vanessa Rouzier provides insight on Covid-19 in Haiti and practical advice to others responding to the pandemic in low-income countries. Dr. Rouzier is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine at Weill Cornell and Chief of... Read More
May 26, 2020 - 10:50am
Dr. Radhika Sundararajan, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, and her colleagues describe the impact of COVID-19 on HIV testing uptake in rural Southwestern Uganda in a new publication in AIDS and Behavior. This qualitative study presents data from in-depth interviews on how country-wide... Read More
May 11, 2020 - 11:53am
Dr. Jean Pape, Professor of Medicine and Director of GHESKIO Centers in Haiti, speaks with NPR about COVID-19 testing and supplies in Haiti. "Pape did pioneering work on HIV and AIDS in Haiti in the 1980s. He's now co-chair of a national commission trying to address COVID-19." Read the NPR article here... Read More
April 22, 2020 - 6:00pm
A recent article in the New York Times features Drs. Jean William Pape and Daniel Fitzgerald, Professors of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, speaking about the anticipated surge in Covid-19 cases in Haiti. “Dr. Pape’s team has been feverishly drafting a treatment protocol that is both effective and... Read More
April 15, 2020 - 7:17pm
As New York City reaches what may be the peak of COVID-19 cases, our colleagues in Haiti and Tanzania are preparing for the surge in cases that is yet to come.The pandemic has thus far hit mostly upper-middle and high-income countries the hardest, where even developed health systems face shortages in... Read More
March 27, 2020 - 9:20am
On the ground in Tanzania, Dr. Rob Peck, Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell, is working closely with colleagues to prepare Weill Bugando and the National Institute of Medical Research in Mwanza for COVID-19. As of the morning on March 27th, Tanzania had 13 confirmed cases. All the cases... Read More
March 24, 2020 - 2:02pm
The Center for Global Health faculty are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Haiti, and Tanzania and our top priority is providing clinical care to patients and their families. In New York, eight of our faculty and staff are working in the hospital treating patients and in the clinical... Read More
March 21, 2020 - 10:54pm
Dr. Jean Pape, Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and his colleagues from GHESKIO and the Haitian Ministry of Health prepare for the arrival of COVID-19 to Haiti. The Ministry of Health’s National Laboratory has been screening suspected cases, and on March 19, 2020, the first two cases... Read More
March 11, 2020 - 1:41pm
Above: Dr. Vanessa Rouzier with her pediatric clinic staff celebrating the 2019 World AIDS Day in HaitiIn 2019, Dr. Vanessa Rouzier joined the Weill Cornell Medicine Faculty at the Center for Global Health. Dr. Rouzier received her MD from McGill University and completed fellowship training in pediatric... Read More
March 1, 2020 - 12:00am
Haiti has among the highest lead levels in the world. Reportedly, used car batteries (shown left) are melted down and turned into cooking pots (shown right), presenting a potential exposure source for lead.Earlier this week, Caleigh Smith, a research assistant with the Center of Global Health, was... Read More
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