Public Private Collaboration in Times of Covid-19 Crisis
This article was written by Tina Ja, Chief People Officer for ACCESS Health China. Covid-19 has kept us contained for over half a year now. This novel virus has disoriented and reoriented our relationships with once familiar environments, and with each other. …
Beyond Private Interests: Four Ways that Chinese Businesses Came Together During Covid-19
This article was written by Jasmine Su, a summer intern with ACCESS Health China. She is currently studying Health Policy Modelling at Yale University and aspires to combine her interests in journalism and public health in the future. Covid-19 broke out in …
The Private Sector Response to COVID-19 in India
This is the second in a series of blog posts by ACCESS Health India Country Director Dr. Krishna Reddy. Dr. Reddy is a board certified cardiologist with a long and distinguished career, marked by his leadership of the CARE Hospital Group which …
Telemedicine and Healthcare: The impact of Covid-19
The novel coronavirus outbreak brought with it a paradigm shift in how healthcare is delivered, with a marked increase in the number of tele-consultations offered to patients as extreme physical distancing orders are put in place. The shift is changing the face …
ACCESS Digital Health Lead Pankaj Gupta on Telemedicine in the Face of Covid-19
Dr. Pankaj Gupta, head of ACCESS Health’s digital health program based in the ACCESS Health India office, was recently featured in a webinar on how telemedicine could be a game changer in the Covid-19 crisis. In India, as in many other countries, …
What Did We Know And When Did We Know It? Disease Surveillance: Past, Present And Future
What can we know, when can we know it, and what can we do with what we know? As COVID-19 moves through our world wreaking destruction upon our social fabric, our lives, and our economies these questions return to haunt me. I …
Washington Post Column on Technology to Combat Covid-19 Features William A. Haseltine
The last time the United States faced a big, hard-to-track threat, we ended up with the Patriot Act and a mass-surveillance program that still rankles. This time, how do we use technology to combat the novel coronavirus without creating elements of a police state? …
An interview with Alex Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
One topic often unaddressed in discussions around Covid-19 is data. What data did we have before this outbreak? What data are we collecting today? And how are we using both sets of data to help us end the current epidemic and prevent …
We Need To Crush The Curve Now—Or COVID-19 Will Come Back To Haunt Us
In a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19, communities across the United States have taken action to “flatten the curve.” The curve in question represents the number of people predicted to contract the novel coronavirus over time, while attempts to flatten …
Technology for Pandemic Preparedness & Response
On March 6, ACCESS Health International and SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute hosted a Tech for Pandemic Preparedness webinar with experts in the fields of emerging infectious disease and technology for health. Please click below to view a recording of the live …
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