We spoke with an attending physician about current hospital working conditions, PPE availability, and medical didactics during the rise of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. They kindly answered our most pressing questions; in turn, we honored their request to remain anonymous. Continue reading [...]

“We can’t wait until capacity has already been overloaded before requesting extra machines – we have to act now based on the best available data. If we don’t, the surge in COVID-19 patients May result in rationing care and unnecessary deaths.” Continue reading [...]

Global Mental Health Impact Story of the Week – March 25th 2020 Leveraging Mobile Phone Technology to Provide Affordable and Accessible Mental Healthcare in Ghana; the MindIT Mental Health Service Story Continue reading [...]

Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 NEJM | Doremalen et al. | Mar. 17, 2020 The aim of this recent publication was to determine how long SARS-CoV-2 could survive in the air and on various surfaces. The authors compare the length of SARS-CoV-2 survival to SARS-CoV-1 (measured by the amount of Continue reading [...]

Preliminary evidence shows that patients with diabetes and/or hypertension are more likely to develop a severe infection from the novel coronavirus. Could a common drug used to treat both be the reason? HGHI’s Anders Gundersen reviews a new Lancet paper. Continue reading [...]

By Dr. Ingrid Pamela Morales Cedillo, MDNational Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz INPRFMMexico City, Mexico The Neuropsychiatric Genetics of Psychosis in Mexico Populations (NeuroMex) program is grateful to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) for the opportunity to receive training from the Global Initiative for Neuropsychiatric Genetics Education in Continue reading [...]