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HGHI, HU CFAR Host Virtual Grand Rounds on Lessons from HIV for Global Equity During Pandemics

Ongoing global Covid-19 vaccine and therapeutic inequities threaten to prolong and exacerbate the pandemic for all countries. As advocates, academics, and policymakers alike call for the U.S. and other wealthy nations to share these lifesaving resources with the world, it is prudent to consider the lessons learned from the HIV pandemic that can be translated

Path to Zero & Schools: Achieving Pandemic Resilient Teaching and Learning Spaces

UPDATE: Please see new guidance, “Schools and the Path to Zero: Strategies for Pandemic Resilience in the Face of High Community Spread”, published December 18, 2020. July 20th, 2020 Finding ways to get kids back to school safely as the virus continues to spread across the nation is a daunting task. Our new guidance helps [...]

Path to Zero: Utilizing Interstate Compacts to Unleash Testing Capacity

Severe testing shortages and processing delays are hampering the COVID-19 response. Here is how to rapidly build the arsenal of timely tests we need to suppress and defeat the coronavirus. [...]

Cases and Deaths Are Surging in Southern States NOT Because of Vacationers From the North

The numbers of cases of and deaths from COVID-19 are surging in the south because states relaxed COVID-19 restrictions too soon, and not, as suggested yesterday by Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control, because of an influx of northern vacationers after Memorial Day. [...]

Dr. Ashish K. Jha says US withdrawal from WHO is devastating loss in battle against COVID-19

Dr. Ashish K. Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, on June 30, 2020 testified before members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that U.S., withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) “will harm not only the health of people around the world, but also US leadership and scientific prowess. And ultimately […] will harm [...]

New Testing Targets

As COVID-19 outbreaks grow more severe, most U.S. states still fall far short on testing. From mitigation to suppression: in collaboration with NPR, HGHI is publishing new state testing targets for July. This new data shows only 18 states meet minimum targets for mitigation, and only three reach suppression level testing. [...]

Evidence Roundup: Why positive test rates need to fall below 3%

By Divya Siddarth, Harvard Safra Center COVID Initiative, Rebecca Katz, Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security, Ellie Graeden, Talus Analytics, Danielle Allen, Harvard Safra Center, and Thomas Tsai, HGHI [...]

It’s not about being sick: Why we need to test more healthy people to beat this virus

By Ashish K. Jha, HGHI This summer opened with a Memorial Day weekend of crowded beaches, boardwalks and pools. From California to Texas, Missouri to New Jersey, people — some with masks and social distancing, others as if coronavirus had never happened – sought the sun and sand, and time with family and friends. After more than two months [...]

The CDC is conflating viral and antibody tests. Here’s what you need to know

The government’s disease-fighting agency is compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same. [...]

Dr. Ashish Jha addresses Congress, urging Feds to do more on testing, support states

Participating in a virtual briefing for members of the House Coronavirus Oversight Committee, Dr. Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), said the federal government must do more to increase testing, support states to help increase testing, and to encourage innovative, new tests to identify those testing positive for COVID-19. [...]

Modeling Uncertainty: How to make sense of changing predictions

By Benjamin Jacobson and Stefanie Friedhoff, HGHI In a pandemic, hard evidence is a precious commodity. At a time when we have a critical need for answers, data and clear evidence to support better decision making are only slowly forthcoming. There is so much we still don’t know about the virus, its features, how it [...]