Category: Health Care
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June 1, 2020 Community, Health Care, Research
Nabarun Dasgupta ’00 Uses Mobile Data to Study Social Distancing Patterns
Epidemiologist Nabarun Dasgupta ’00 and his team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill set out to examine social-distancing patterns by studying location data from 65 million mobile devices to isolate key factors, such as limited access to doctors, public parks and recreation facilities, and food insecurity.
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May 29, 2020 Community, Health Care, Service
Brooklyn Cares feeds medical frontliners and provides boost to local restaurants
Stephanie Schragger ’93 launched Brooklyn Cares with her friend to support struggling neighborhood restaurants and provide meals for the exhausted frontline medical workers who were battling COVID-19. “We were really just inspired to do something for the community at a time when it’s really hard to feel helpful when you’re stuck at home,” she said.
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May 28, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts, Policy
Politics & Polls #187: South Korea’s Response to Covid-19 Featuring Asaph Young Chun
When COVID-19 first emerged in South Korea, the country’s rapid response and decisive intervention enabled the country to detect cases early, slowing the spread of the infection and controlling mortality rates. Now, the country faces a new spike in cases, leaving many to wonder if a second wave is coming. Sam Wang and Julian Zelizer discuss South Korea’s response to Covid-19 in this episode featuring Dr. Asaph Young Chun, director-general of Statistics Research Institute in South Korea, the state-run think tank of official statistics and data innovation.
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May 26, 2020 Health Care
Class of ’92 hosts online medical panel to discuss COVID-19
Princeton’s Class of 1992 held an online panel discussion about the COVID-19 response with five class members who serve on the medical front lines.
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May 26, 2020 Community, Health Care, Service
Iming Lin ’03 co-created Food Flow to connect local South African farmers with people in need
After South Africa’s president declared a national state of disaster in response to COVID-19 in March, Iming Lin ’03 recognized an opportunity to help her farm, her neighbors, and others. Within a week, she and colleagues established Food Flow, an organization that connects local farmers with soup kitchens and families that are hungry.
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May 26, 2020 Health Care
Jessica Benedetto ’96 reports from the coronavirus front
Jessica Benedetto ’96, an internal medicine physician at North Shore Medical Center in Massachusetts, wrote a letter to her local newspaper, the Daily Item, describing the activity and conditions at her hospital during the fight against COVID-19.
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May 22, 2020 Health Care
EMS Director Emily Nichols ’99 Treats COVID Like Walking Into Fire
Dr. Emily Nichols ’99 adapts her emergency medical staff to COVID-19, moment-to-moment, and takes inspiration from first responders. (Photo by Jonathan Fourcade)
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May 21, 2020 Community, Health Care, Service, Technology
“Check-in” to Help Keep Friends and Family Safe During COVID-19
Syndesy, an app designed to create safe connections, has recently added a new “Check-ins” feature for users to check in or monitor wherever they go, so in the event they do contract COVID-19, they can inform their family and friends of their travels by generating a report available through the app.
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May 21, 2020 Health Care, Research, Technology
AI tool gives doctors a new look at the lungs in treating COVID-19
Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, Princeton researchers have developed a diagnostic tool to analyze chest X-rays for patterns in diseased lungs. The new tool could give doctors valuable information about a patient’s condition, quickly and cheaply, at the point of care.
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May 21, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts, Policy
Politics & Polls #186: Using the 1918 Pandemic as a Blueprint for Today
In grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, many scientists and government officials are looking to the 1918 pandemic as a reference point for lessons learned. Also known as the “Spanish Flu,” this epidemic was the most sweeping of the 20th centurys. John M. Barry, a New York Times best-selling author, joins this episode to discuss his book, “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”
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May 21, 2020 Health Care, Service
Arpita Chatterjee *10 Reaches Out to Help the Land of Bengal Tigers
Although she lives in Sydney, Australia, Arpita Chatterjee *10 partnered with a friend in Belgium, one in California, and another in Arkansas, to begin Save Our Saviours, an international effort to supply personal protective equipment to public hospitals in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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May 19, 2020 Arts/Cultural, Community, Education, Health Care, News, Policy, Service
Medical Anthropology students share COVID-19 projects in online showcase
Medical Anthropology (ANT/HUM 240) might be the rare Princeton course that was deepened and enriched by the life-altering circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, since its focus is very much related to how the humanities and anthropology can help us understand illness, healing and present-day struggles for wellbeing. The students’ class projects have been made available in a special online showcase.