Jay Varma
@DrJayVarma
Physician, epidemiologist, infectious diseases, public health, #globalhealth - opinions all my own. EVP, Chief Med Officer, Director @SigaTech
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Tomorrow at 10:45am ET, our EVP and CMO Jay Varma will join Former NIAID News Director Anthony Fauci, MD, and the CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Steve Corwin, MD, for a panel discussion during New York-Presbyterian’s professional development retreat to discuss health leadership.
As part of Authority Magazine’s interview series, our Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Jay Varma shared five changes that need to be made to improve the US #healthcare system. Read the full interview: medium.com/authority-maga…
Join the #HarvardChanStudio tomorrow, 1 pm ET— The STI surge: Combatting America’s sexual health crisis. Experts Nesli Basgoz, Jay Varma, Antón Castellanos Usigli and Demetre Daskalakis. Moderated by Apoorva Mandavilli.
Register: hsph.me/STISurge
Recently the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that China is experiencing the world’s fastest increase in #mpox cases. Learn how they are managing the #publichealth crisis in this MIT Technology Review article: technologyreview.com/2023/08/01/107…
“The oath that doctors profess (first, do no harm) also applies to hospitals: do not make people sicker than they were before they sought care,” write Jay Varma and Wande Alimi in Think Global Health: on.cfr.org/3OvaYf0
In our new issue of IMPACT, Dr. Anthony Fauci joins Jay Varma of Weill Cornell Medicine Population Health Sciences to talk about preparing for future disease outbreaks, fighting disinformation and mentoring the next generation of public health leaders.
Read their full conversation: bit.ly/3COy1w8
We now have data on the safety of #CovidVaccines in #pregnancy from *nine* countries (thanks Romania!) 🇷🇴
👩🏻🔬 36 studies
🤰🏿 Including more than 364,068 ppl vaccinated in pregnancy
...find no increased risk of pregnancy problems.
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CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service wrote the textbook on how to deal with outbreaks
But politicians undermined their ability to deal with Covid
nytimes.com/2023/03/21/hea… Apoorva Mandavilli
Want to know what it’s like to be a CDC #DiseaseDetective ? Attend the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) informational webinar tomorrow, March 17, at 12pm ET to hear from current disease detectives about their fellowship experiences & #PublicHealth work. bit.ly/EIS-webinars
As Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says, national public health agencies will play a critical role in building & sustaining health emergency preparedness & response capacity
It’s been an honour to host heads of these agencies from across the world & partners on behalf of World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Prog.
What if the next pandemic happened tomorrow? Are we ready? Would we limit travel, close schools, mandate masks?
The first New York Times Opinion edition of The Next Pandemic newsletter series looks at such pressing questions, and you can sign up here (1/8) nytimes.com/newsletters/th…