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June 16, 2020 Community, Service
Stitching, Sewing, Sending Out Hope
Princeton junior Sally Ruybalid has sewn more than 300 masks for local hospitals, businesses and community members since March 30, when she emailed several undergraduate mailing lists offering free fabric masks.
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June 16, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts, Policy
Leadership During Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises with Dr. Laura Kahn
World leaders have been tested in their ability to protect their citizens against COVID-19, which has upended nearly every facet of society. Stable leadership is needed now more than ever. Dr. Laura Kahn shares her take on the skills necessary to lead during such uncertain times, which is the subject of her book, “Who’s In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises.”
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June 16, 2020 Health Care, News
Colorado Coalition Moves to Protect Homeless During Pandemic
With board chair T.R. Reid ’66 at the helm, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless rented every room in four Denver-area motels and two hotels to assist people who are homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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June 15, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts
Cutting Through the Noise: A Doctor Takes the Mic for Medicine
Céline Gounder ’97, an infectious diseases specialist and host of the “EPIDEMIC” podcast, knew COVID-19 was poised to cause a pandemic like the U.S. had never seen. Convincing others required her to use an unexpected tool in her medical arsenal: her voice.
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June 15, 2020 Education, Service
Class of 1980 Reunions’ Community Service Project Benefits Trenton-Area School
When the Class of 1980 learned that Reunions wasn’t continuing as originally planned due to the pandemic, the class quickly determined it wanted to keep one aspect of Reunions intact: its community service project. With its 40th reunion theme, “The Ties That Bind,” as a guidepost, the class sought to pursue a project that had real impact and was meaningful to its members.
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June 11, 2020 Community, Health Care, Podcasts
‘We Roar’: Céline Gounder, infectious diseases specialist, to answer COVID-19 questions live on Facebook
Céline Gounder ’97, an infectious diseases specialist and host and producer of the “EPIDEMIC” podcast, will join Princeton University’s “We Roar” podcast at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 12, for a Facebook Live event.
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June 11, 2020 Community
Tiger Ethics: Helping Family and Evaluating Risk During COVID
Policymakers, health-care providers, and ordinary citizens are grappling with ethical challenges presented by COVID-19. What are our obligations to others? How do we balance the risks to individuals and society? What’s an ethical response to the virus’s unequal impact on different communities? Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and Human Values Elizabeth Harman answers questions on pandemic ethics.
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June 9, 2020 Community, Education, Policy
Inaugural Equity, Inclusion and COVID-19 conversation investigates xenophobia
Four panelists participated in the inaugural event for the Equity, Inclusion and COVID-19 conversation series, titled “Race in the COVID Era: What America’s History of Racism and Xenophobia Means for Today.” The 90-minute discussion addressed how xenophobia and racial inequities in the United States had been amplified by the pandemic, particularly discrimination against people of Chinese and Asian descent.
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June 9, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts, Policy
Intersecting Vulnerabilities: What Lies Behind the Inequities of COVID-19
Historian Keith Wailoo discusses how race, class, urban congestion and a failed public health system have contributed to the extraordinary gulf in coronavirus fatality rates.
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June 5, 2020 Community, Health Care
Behavior Scientist Katy Milkman ’04 On Small Ways to Keep COVID at Bay
For Katy Milkman ’04, a professor at Penn’s Wharton School, the virus’s reliance on humans’ social habits opens the door for a behavioral scientist like her to help lessen the toll of the pandemic.
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