COVID-19 News
Chair’s Note
It is fall semester of 2021 and COVID-19 is still “upon the population” here in Wisconsin and across the globe. Despite many warnings and some useful pandemic modeling, the changes in our daily lives came abruptly in the middle of March 2020, when we transitioned from business as usual to all hands-on deck to defeat the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Each of us is now doing our part by continuing to work as hard as we can to advance the teaching and research mission of Population Health Sciences, and to protect and promote the health of the public.
Below are links to a number of PHS activities underway to support the COVID-19 response in our community. Though many uncertainties and disproportionate impacts of this epidemic remain, there are also glimmers of hope, and much knowledge to be gained from this experience that can be used to build a more sustainable, healthy, equitable and inclusive society for the future.
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Ajay Sethi Featured in SMPH Quarterly Magazine as one of the “Heroes of the Pandemic”
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Ajay Sethi Featured on CapTimes Ideas Fest Panel
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Ajay Sethi Appears on WPT, “Here and Now” about COVID-19
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PHS Prof. Ajay Sethi and Dr. Nasia Safdar discuss, “COVID’s Past and Future”
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Center Stage: A booster dose of Dr. Remington’s sage advice as omicron takes over
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Does Omicron change our pandemic future?
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Dr. Ajay Sethi featured in panel titled “COVID-19 and a Deluge of Data”
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Dr. Ajay Sethi reflects on providing expertise in over 300 interviews over the past year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Dr. Ajay Sethi featured in Wisconsin State Journal Article “COVID-19 booster shot plan raises hope and questions, UW experts say”
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Dr. Ajay Sethi Interviewed in Wisconsin Public Radio’s report: “The Delta Variant Is Surging. Here’s How Wisconsinites Can Help Stop Its Spread”
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Dr. Ajay Sethi discusses importance of masking in schools in UW News’ COVID Questions Column
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Dr. Ajay Sethi featured in “Badgers Back Together Town Hall: Making sense of Delta, vaccines, and where we are now”
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Preventive Medicine Resident Devlin Cole, MD, MPH, featured in “Badger Talks: The Delta Variant”
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Dr. Ajay Sethi discusses a ‘more normal’ fall thanks to COVID vaccinations in video: “UW–Madison navigates Covid-19 transitions together”
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Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) Past Antibody COVID-19 Community Survey (PACCS) found that more than 11% of participants had a positive COVID-19 antibody test due to past infection
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Ajay Sethi, PhD, MHS and PHS Alumna Amanda Jovaag, MS featured in UW University Health Services Town Hall
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Dr. Ajay Sethi featured in recent episode of Badger Talks: “Is Herd Immunity Attainable?”
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Dr. Ajay Sethi recently featured in the Washington Post and Wisconsin Public Radio
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Dr. Leonelo Bautista featured on “Esta Noche Mariasela” to discuss Sinovac and Sinopharm COVID Vaccine efficacy
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Dr. Ajay Sethi featured in the Morgridge Institute’s “COVID-19 Series: How to talk about vaccines (and find common ground)”
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Marietou Ouayogode, PhD, co-moderated The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership’s event: “The Opportunities and Challenges of COVID Tracking Apps as Pandemic Control Mechanisms”
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Drs. Tiffany Green and Ajay Sethi reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic on Capital City Sunday
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Dr. Tiffany Green featured in Badger Talks: “Disparities in COVID Vaccination”
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Covid-19 and Racism Research PHS Monday Seminar in Badger Herald
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PHS Faculty-led WAVE I and WAVE II Covid-19 Antibody Surveillance Findings
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HIP Releases COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization Toolkit
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JAMA Network Open interview with Ajay Sethi
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GRE Requirement Change for Prospective Students due to COVID-19
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Tiffany Green in Scientific American
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Jonathan Patz- Isthmus Article on COVID-19, Climate Change and Eviction
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Ajay Sethi WI State Journal Interview on Conspiracies in Public Health
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Ajay Sethi Discusses why Large Protest Gatherings did not Lead to COVID-19 Spike
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Article Published in Clinical Infectious Disease – Risk Communication During COVID-19
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SHOW Featured in USA Today
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Population Health Sciences Researchers Provide Estimates of Excess Breast Cancer Deaths due to COVID-19
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SHOW Partners with The Wisconsin Department of Health Services on COVID-19 Study
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Tiffany Green CNBC News and Article: Coronavirus Pandemic and George Floyd Protests Highlight Health Disparities for Black People
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Madison365 Real Talk with Henry Sanders Interviews Ajay Sethi about COVID-19 in Madison
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Sheri Johnson In JAMA: Rethinking the Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2030
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Tiffany Green Interview on COVID-19 Racial Disparities
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Capital Times Q&A: Ajay Sethi Dispels COVID-19 Conspiracies
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Ajay Sethi Discusses Badger Bounce Back with Channel 27 WKOW
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American College of Preventive Medicine: “How UW’s Preventive Medicine Residency Program is Responding to COVID-19”
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Tom Oliver Interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio on the Underfunding of Public Health Programs
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Kristen Malecki Quoted by AP News on In-Person Voting Coronavirus Risk
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PHS Health Innovation Program Susceptibility Reports
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Why Climate Change Can Lead to More Pandemics- Jonathan Patz on WI Public Radio
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Jonathan Patz’s Pandemic Prevention Presentation for UW 2020 Earth Day
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Population Health Science’s Health Innovation Program’s COVID-19 Response Activities
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Tom Oliver and Ajay Sethi Author Wisconsin’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic