CUNY SPH faculty, students, and alumni are addressing the coronavirus pandemic through surveys of NYC residents, national cohort studies, systems science approaches, vaccine confidence advocacy, and more – and always through a social justice lens.
CUNY SPH faculty, students, and alumni are addressing the coronavirus pandemic through surveys of NYC residents, national cohort studies, systems science approaches, vaccine confidence advocacy, and more – and always through a social justice lens.
CUNY SPH has partnered with the NYC Test and Trace Corps to help train resource navigators and supervisors to assist anyone who has COVID-19, or who has been in contact with someone with COVID-19, to safely quarantine at home. Resource navigators connect these individuals with free critical economic, social, and physical health resources and programs including food delivery, help accessing health insurance, links to a primary care provider and mental health support, help with domestic violence, connections to social services and housing resources, and a Take Care package with enough personal protective equipment for a household to quarantine. Several CUNY SPH faculty and administrators, including Ashish Joshi, Sean Haley, Elizabeth Kelvin, Lynn Roberts, and Stacey Plichta, have been engaged in the development and implementation of training modules for the NYC Test and Trace Corps. These modules include Data and Digital Literacy, Supportive Supervision, Self-care, Management Basics, and Equity and Culturally Responsive Communication for Supervisors of Frontline Workers. A COVID-19 aftercare module is planned to help understand post-COVID-19 resource needs.
Focusing Beyond Disparities In Patient Outcomes: CUNY SPH doctoral student Jacqueline Chiofalo won this year’s Academy Health Disparities Interest Group student essay contest with an editorial urging greater research focus on structural and process measures of health to allow for comparisons between institutions.
Our faculty, staff, students and alumni have been hard at work putting the COVID-19 pandemic into context for the public. See our full list of press clips here.