COVID19
by Madeleine Deye | Feb 5, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health leadership in New York City and their response to the emerging pandemic were in the public eye. Immediately, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) and other local health...
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 7, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | The initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States largely focused on addressing the immediate health consequences from the emergent pathogen. This initial focus often ignored the related impacts from the pandemic and from mitigation...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 19, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Since December 2019, much of the world’s focus has been on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as it emerged from Wuhan, China and rapidly spread across the world. As of this writing, there were over 570 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, and...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 27, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Digital Health in the 21st Century Over the past several decades, the development and accelerated advancement of digital technology has prompted change across virtually all aspects of human endeavor. The positive and negative effects of these changes have been...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 7, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives
The adverse economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to socioeconomic and health disparities in the United States, with a disproportionate impact among low-income persons and communities of color. However, these disparities documented over the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Over the last decade, some of the digital technologies that have profoundly transformed industries from banking to media have, at last, arrived in health...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> ABSTRACT | United States health care spending consumes nearly a fifth of the GDP [1]. While, in many respects, the U.S. health care system is enviable and...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 29, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction The health system exists to serve the most fundamental need of society: people’s health and well-being. To do so effectively requires engaging people...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 1, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), coupled with the increasing awareness of racial inequity in the United States, as sparked by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police officers, has led to a moment of reckoning...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 30, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction COVID-19 has fundamentally challenged the delivery of health care services across the world, forcing difficult choices on health...
