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March 9, 2025
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
SPECIAL EDITION | FIVE YEARS OF COVID-19
March 11, 2025 marks the fifth-year anniversary of the WHO's declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic. In this special edition of SPH This Week, we reflect on the lessons learned, the questions still unanswered, and the millions of lives lost around the world.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
As we enter the sixth year of life with COVID-19, faculty members Davidson Hamer, Laura White, Jonathan Levy, Patricia Fabian, Brooke Nichols, Timothy Callaghan, Matt Motta, and Jennifer Weuve discuss how they expect the virus to evolve, and how we can apply lessons learned to mitigate future suffering from COVID-19 and other infectious disease threats. Read more.
PUBLIC HEALTH MATTERS
Times of upheaval—such as the pandemic—can be opportunities to reshape society, in ways good and bad, writes Dean Ad Interim Michael Stein in a new Public Health Matters. Read more.
ALUM Q&A
Christine Keeves (SPH'08), co-founder of the nonprofit Marked By COVID, discusses the organization's efforts to establish both a permanent augmented reality COVID Memorial in Washington, DC and a national COVID Memorial Day in honor of those who lost their lives during the pandemic. Read more.
FACULTY Q&A
Davidson Hamer, professor of global health and medicine, discusses the enduring public health lessons of the pandemic. Watch the video.
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We are really focused on [building] the National COVID Memorial and establishing a COVID Memorial Day...because it draws this line in the sand that says: This happened, it was a big deal, we cannot forget about it, and we need to learn about it.
CHRISTINE KEEVES (SPH'08), COFOUNDER OF MARKED BY COVID, A NONPROFIT SUPPORTING PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES TO COVID-19.
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PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Health care workers in the United States are five times more likely to experience workplace violence than workers in any other profession, writes PHP guest author Katherine Meese, assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Learn more.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
One in 7 Americans are still reporting symptoms of long COVID. Our current safety net is insufficient to support them, writes Brontë Nevins, a 2024 graduate of the Master of Public Affairs program at Princeton University. Read more.
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The COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on disparities in healthcare access, employment, education, and more—all parts of American life that may be threatened if the Trump administration continues to defy a federal judge's recent decision to block cuts to funding for research that addresses these issues. In light of these efforts, SPH's Carla Irizarry-Delgado shares five examples of federally funded research projects at SPH and a few ways they've changed real lives. Check them out here.
In the Media.
BOSTON GLOBE
Quotes Sarah Gordon, assistant professor of health law, policy & management and codirector of the Medicaid Policy Lab.
BOSTON GLOBE
Quotes Davidson Hamer, professor of global health.
THE GUARDIAN
Quotes Megan Cole, associate professor of health law, policy & management.
BOSTON GLOBE
Op-ed by Katherine O'Malley, policy analyst in health law, policy & management.
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