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Jan 17 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
I'm excited to have the opportunity to serve as Acting Director of the @Fogarty_NIH International Center and Acting Associate Director for International Research at the @NIH...
2/ There are huge challenges and opportunities in global health research including unfinished agendas in infectious diseases, One Health, pandemic preparedness, ⬆️non-communicable diseases, planetary health include climate change, and the need for implementation research...
3/ All needs to be done with increased attention to promoting #equity in our partnerships, addressing health #disparities, and increasing #diversity in our global workforce.

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Feb 28, 2021
A glorious day yesterday! My first day as a volunteer vaccinator with the Maryland Medical Reserve Corps at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville. 💉🧵...
2. I took an online training course, but probably hadn't given an injection since about 1993, so I observed a retired former NIH nurse for the first few clients, then got my own table, working together with a data entry clerk.
3. We were positioned next to the handicapped entrance, so a lot of our clients were in wheelchairs or had walkers. Most were elderly and frail. Many were accompanied by an adult child or were older couples getting their injections together.
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Jul 11, 2020
A thread on #ContactTracing for #COVID19. APHA @PublicHealth says 100,000 more contact tracers needed across U.S. for state and local health departments to stop the spread. 1/n #COVIDResponseCorps thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/content/50/5/1…
2. @DrTomFrieden's crucial indicators for #COVID19 control:
•Proportion of new cases with known source
•Proportion isolated within three days
•Proportion of cases among people in quarantine. An indicator of successful #ContactTracing.
foxnews.com/opinion/six-mo…
3. #ContactTracing in #MA significantly downscaled. Multi-million dollar effort with @PIH now has ~700 staffers, down from 1,900. Complaints: computer glitches, inadequate training, poor communication. Some towns focusing on their own, in-house efforts. bostonglobe.com/2020/07/08/met…
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Jul 6, 2020
A thread on #ContactTracing for #COVID19. It's a race, but few states say how fast they’re running. @CDCgov guidance includes metrics - none of which are being publicly reported by most states. [A timely, comprehensive review.] 1/n washingtonpost.com/local/contact-…
2. @HarvardGH and @Harvard Safra Center's Metrics for #COVID19 Suppression include Key Performance Indicators for #ContactTracing as a framework for policy makers and the public globalepidemics.org/wp-content/upl…
3. States using different metrics for #COVID19 #ContactTracing. @NYCHealthSystem data: June 1-27: 10,066 cases, 5,285 completed interview (52.5%); 9,199 contacts named, 4,293 completed interview (46.6%) nychealthandhospitals.org/test-and-trace…
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Jun 30, 2020
Update on #ContactTracing for #COVID19 - a thread. Early signs of success from SF Bay Area. Many local counties are approaching goal of contacting 90% of the region’s positive cases, even as coronavirus cases spike across the state. @mikereidmd @SF_DPH sfchronicle.com/health/article…
2. San Francisco @SF_DPH data:
• % of Cases Reached for #ContactTracing over Prior Two Weeks – currently 82%, target 90+%
• % of Named Contacts Reached for Contact Tracing over the Prior Two Weeks – currently 85%, target 90+%
data.sfgov.org/stories/s/epem…
3. OTOH, lack of transparency makes #ContactTracing success hard to measure. Impossible to know whether Bay Area’s two largest counties have been successful because their health officials refuse to reveal how many people they do reach, and how quickly. mercurynews.com/2020/06/29/is-…
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Apr 6, 2020
WIN-WIN! Representatives @SusanWBrooks (IN) and @RepBera (CA) call for a #COVID19 Response Corps to help stop the pandemic and create jobs mobilizing returned @PeaceCorps volunteers w/@fema @CSIS Commission on #HealthSecurity #COVIDResponseCorps A thread. csis.org/analysis/covid…
2/n U.S. COVID-19 Response Corps (CRC): trained, deployable workforce for urgent needs of national response with skills in health education, logistics, social program delivery, education, communications, data analysis, and other fields.
3/n Deployed to state and local areas to support contact tracing, isolation, quarantine, social support, logistical support, testing, decontamination, call centers, at-risk populations, elderly, homeless - critical activities to #FlattenTheCurve and mitigate the economic impacts
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Mar 1, 2020
Some findings from @WHO #China report (1/n): #COVID19 is transmitted via droplets and fomites during close unprotected contact. Airborne spread has not been reported and it is not believed to be a major driver of transmission who.int/docs/default-s…
2/n: Fecal shedding has been demonstrated from some patients, and viable virus has been identified in a limited number of case reports. However, the fecal-oral route does not appear to be a driver of COVID-19 transmission.
3/n: In China, human-to-human transmission is largely occurring in families. Among 344 clusters involving 1308 cases most (78%-85%) occurred in families. Preliminary studies estimate the secondary attack rate in households ranges from 3-10%.
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