How Antibody Tests Can Be Used To Fight COVID-19
This article, written by ACCESS Health Chair and President William A. Haseltine, originally appeared in Forbes. There is a new antibody test that will change the landscape of Covid-19 testing as we know it. There are now two ways to test for …
Houston Public Radio Interviews William A. Haseltine
ACCESS Health Chair and President William A. Haseltine recently appeared on Houston Matters: Special Edition with Ernie Manouse. The full interview is available to listen to HERE. A transcript of the conversation is also available, below. William Haseltine (WH): It is a …
Test, Trace, and Quarantine: The Only Way to Overcome SARS-CoV-2
This piece originally appeared in Project Syndicate. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s behavior over the past two weeks is exactly what’s wrong with America’s response to COVID-19. Paul has a compromised lung, so he decided that he should be tested for the disease …
Healthcare must be Affordable and Accessible, but also High Quality
This post, authored by Valerie Shelly (ACCESS Health International), Susann Roth (Asian Development Bank) and Kirthi Ramesh (Asian Development Bank), originally appeared on the Asian Development Bank blog. Universal health coverage must be high quality to improve patients’ health outcomes Shakina lives in …
Digital Solutions to Manage and Contain Disease Outbreaks
Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus at the end of 2019, Chinese citizens have united to fight against the epidemic. The United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the international community have given high praise to China’s effective measures in …
Partners In Health Rwanda: Lessons In Eliminating Barriers To Care
This article, authored by ACCESS Health Chair and President William A. Haseltine, originally appeared in Forbes. In late February, Dr. Krishna Reddy, Country Director of ACCESS Health India, and I traveled to Rwanda to learn more about health systems strengthening from an …
Interview with an American Quarantined in China for Covid-19
Quarantine is a powerful approach to curbing the spread of infectious disease. But the term can often be disquieting, evoking images of the sick and defenseless being dragged from homes and locked away with hundreds of potentially infectious strangers. The reality of …
ACCESS Health Aging Books Featured on Here’s To Your Health Radio
ACCESS Health Chair and President William A. Haseltine was interviewed by Joshua Lane on the radio program, Here’s To Your Health. The program explores ideas that can improve the health of people of all ages and their communities. In the interview, Dr. …
FOX Business Interviews ACCESS Health on the Latest Coronavirus Outbreak
ACCESS Health Chair and President William A. Haseltine was recently interviewed by Liz Claman, host of the Claman Countdown on the FOX Business Network, on the latest coronavirus outbreak which started in Wuhan, China. Dr. Haseltine recently returned from Wuhan where he …
ACCESS Health China Explores the use of Digital Technologies in Disease Outbreaks
In response to the global outbreak of a new coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, ACCESS Health China team launched a new, internal research program to study the application of digital technologies for disease control during the current 2019-nCoV outbreak in China. Since the first coronavirus …