Trevor Brown of Tulsa World - Dr. Candice Chen, an associate professor at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, said she and her team created a contact tracing workforce estimator that takes into account state demographics, data from the CDC’s social vulnerability index and updated information on testing and active COVID-19 cases. Read article.
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The TIME 100: Talks Finding Hope — Equality in the Age of COVID-19 event brought together leaders to speak on a range of issues, from how the pandemic has impacted domestic and migrant workers to the importance of access to safe water. Speakers included Mullan Institute Distinguished Fellow Dr. Leana Wen, Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, politician Stacey Abrams, actor Matt Damo, former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, activists Ai-Jen Poo and Mónica Ramírez, social entrepreneur Gary White and actor and singer Ben Platt.
Betsy Ladyzhets of Stacker - “For contact tracing to be successful,” says Dr. Candice Chen, an Associate Professor at George Washington University who works on the Workforce Estimator, “it really has to be a comprehensive approach.” She explains that interviewing patients is only the beginning; for the strategy to be successful, people exposed to COVID-19 must have the space and resources to self-isolate: “If people can’t stay home, in the end, you’re not actually containing anything.” Read full article.
Finding Hope marked TIME’s launch of the event series. Featured speakers included Mullan Institute Distinguished Fellow Dr. Leana Wen, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Angelina Jolie, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, the singer John Legend, journalist Katie Couric, epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant, artist and photographer JR and president of the Rockefeller Foundation Rajiv J. Shah.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 11, 2020) — The Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University today announced Patricia (Polly) Pittman, PhD, will be the first Fitzhugh Mullan Professor of Health Workforce Equity. Pittman, a professor of health policy and management at Milken Institute SPH and director of the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity (Mullan Institute), will be officially installed in the professorship at a ceremony to be held at Milken Institute SPH today.
Pittman is a renowned expert in health workforce issues and policy, conducting research on health systems, recruitment of health professionals, and workforce innovations. Pittman co-founded the GW Health Workforce, which is now known as the Mullan Institute, with the late Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, to further research and education in the area of health workforce equity. The Institute was renamed in April 2019 to honor Mullan, a professor of health policy and management and pediatrics at GW’s Milken Institute SPH and the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). Mullan, a public health pioneer revered for his lifelong commitment to social justice, health equity and health workforce policies, died last November. |
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