Science Magazine: This Physician Has Battled Epidemics, Quakes, and Poverty in Haiti. Now She’s Taking On COVID-19

Dr. Marie Marcelle Deschamps, Deputy Director of GHESKIO in Haiti and long-time collaborator with the Center for Global Health, was recently featured in an article in Science highlighting her work in fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic, responding to the 2010 earthquake and subsequent cholera outbreak and facing the current COVID-19 pandemic.

“Deschamps sees COVID-19 as just the latest chapter in the Haitian saga. ‘Every time you make progress, finding the solutions, you are pushed back by either a natural or political catastrophe,’ she says. ‘You are always in a situation of crisis where you have to act rapidly.’”

Read the full article: Science: ‘This physician has battled epidemics, quakes, and poverty in Haiti. Now, she's taking on COVID-19’