Report: Gender and COVID-19 Vaccine Policy Development - key barriers and opportunities
COVID-19 vaccine policies set in the first 18 months of the pandemic initially ignored gender norms, roles, and relations as drivers of...
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Susanna Lehtimaki
- Oct 7
- 1 min
The US needs to prepare to introduce the novel oral polio vaccine
In their article published in BMJ, Nina Schwalbe and Jay Varma call for the US to consider using the novel polio vaccine to stop the...
Susanna Lehtimaki
- May 13
- 4 min
Pandemic Preparedness and Response: a primer for the World Health Assembly
This year’s World Health Assembly (WHA) includes a number of proposals that will impact the governance of pandemic preparedness and...
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
Independent Review and Investigation Mechanisms to Prevent Future Pandemics
Please check out our recent analysis in Foreign Policy on why pandemic response needs the political gravitas of the UN and an independent...
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Susanna Lehtimaki
- Mar 9, 2021
- 1 min
[Webinar] Precision Public Health: Transforming Health with Data
Nina's presentation at the Healthcare Executive in Asia Leaders (HEAL) Programme, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health on Tuesday, 2...
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Mar 9, 2021
- 2 min
Myths and COVID-19
This recent study in JAMA is a great example how a single case does not tell the full story of what is happening, which has been a...
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Jan 28, 2021
- 1 min
Global Lessons Learned and Reflections: How Will COVID-19 Shape Future Pandemic Response?
The webinar series by Mount Sinai Health System. Nina speaks about vaccine confidence in the part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS2i...
Nina Schwalbe
- Jan 16, 2021
- 1 min
New York City Struggles with Vaccine Roll Out - which was avoidable
Check out this article form the New York Times which quotes Nina Schwalbe on the current situation here in NYC. Nina was also quoted...
Nina Schwalbe
- Jan 11, 2021
- 1 min
The US has vaccines but no strategy on how to use them
Please check out our post in BMJ on the need to set a strategy for the roll-out of the COVID vaccine.
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Dec 18, 2020
- 3 min
Update: COVID-19 in European schools
Summary We reviewed school policies and recent data of selected countries in Europe (Germany, France, England, and Sweden) to see if...
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Dec 11, 2020
- 1 min
Is a global rights-based COVID-19 vaccine roll out possible?
On December 9, 2020, the Global Health Justice & Governance Program within the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health...
Nina Schwalbe
- Nov 21, 2020
- 1 min
Why are we closing schools in NYC? We should be opening them up more.
Please see our recent opinion piece in the Atlantic.
Nina Schwalbe
- Oct 29, 2020
- 1 min
Will schools in NYC ever fully open?
Today, France, Germany and Switzerland all imposed stricter lockdown measures and kept schools open with no changes regarding recommended...
Nina Schwalbe
- Oct 20, 2020
- 1 min
Time to address underlying conditions
Please see this recent study by Mechanick et al on the importance of prevention and treatment of underlying conditions as a mitigation...
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Oct 16, 2020
- 1 min
The Path to a COVID-19 Vaccine
Physicians for Human Rights explored the challenges of COVID-19 vaccines through a human rights lens in this two-part series. The first...
Nina Schwalbe
- Oct 6, 2020
- 1 min
What makes us more susceptible to severe COVID-19 disease?
A few great articles and studies have come out in the past week – one on the link with Diabetes – which is significant – and confirms it...
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min
Testing in schools – do we need it?
Here are some references from the CDC website for higher education. The recommended focus of testing is on suspected cases or those who...
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
COVID and back to school
This COVID-19 School and Community resource library is one of the most comprehensive attempts to summarize the evidence we have seen in...
Nina Schwalbe
- Sep 14, 2020
- 0 min
Susanna Lehtimaki
- Jun 15, 2020
- 9 min
School re-opening and COVID-19
In this brief, we explore the current evidence around school closures in Europe and North America and provide an update on practice from...