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Dr. Gajendra Vishwakarma Survival Models/Accelerated Failure Time/Proportional Hazard Model/Comprehensive Analytical Strategy This pandemic of COVID-19 is tedious to control. The only lockdown is the way to stop the spread of this infection. Conventional health care is facing a real challenge to operate. Primarily the challenge is to provide health care support for COVID-19 patients with limited resources and continue the health care services like earlier. Perhaps, this challenge is the same but magnitude is different from different geographical locations around the globe. The model would provide physicians with an objective tool for counseling and decision making at different hotspots and small areas to implement. https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-020-01090-z

Dr. Heather McGrane Minton Community service/advocate/volunteer Dr. McGrane Minton has served on the COVID-19 Monitoring Team at St. John Fisher College, as well as the COVID-19 Policy Work Group. She has also volunteered in the onsite testing clinic at the College and has given radio interviews on community health and COVID-19. Dr. McGrane Minton continues to provide information regarding the pandemic, testing, and vaccination efforts. She has gone above and beyond her professional duties during this time. http://www.sjfc.edu

Dr. Seham Elmrayed Female/Safety/COVID-19/Guidelines/Newcomers Seham, a PhD Candidate in Epidemiology at the University of Calgary, has gone above and beyond during the COVID-19 pandemic to help female business-owners (and newcomers to Canada) by starting a non-profit organization, “SaferYYC.” As a relative newcomer to Canada, Seham is sensitive to the particular needs of this community. When Seham noticed female newcomer business owners were not reopening their businesses due to fear of the often-changing COVID-19 regulations, she identified the barriers the community had to understanding and implementing the guidelines safely, and she translated the current COVID-19 protocols into understandable guidelines. Seham met with community members at their businesses to help them interpret and implement the guidelines safely, ensuring the owners, their employees, and clients remained safe. She also led a social-media campaign under the SaferYYC organization to relay credible information. She took the initiative to develop a strategic goal to benefit vulnerable business owners within the newcomer community and she trained nursing and medical students to join her. Not only did she raise awareness among the newcomer business community, she engaged students and delegated tasks effectively. Seham also identified the need for funding, but instead of simply applying for a grant, she […]

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Diane Havlir, Carina Marquez, Alicia Fernandez, Kim Rhoads, Monica Gandhi Health disparities/immunology/risk factors/outcomes/outreach These internationally renowned female researchers at UCSF have been at the forefront of COVID-19 science: on the ground through their epidemiologic and immunologic research, as well as their advocacy in the news and on social media highlighting COVID-19 risk factors and prevention methods, racial/ethnic disparities in outcomes, vaccine outreach and efficacy, and more. Illustration by Molly Oleson The Covid-19 warriors at UCSF are often female, always fierce and unusually diverse

CORONA-CODOMO HEADQUARTERS Children aged 0-18 and parents/information dissemination to government, teachers and parents/weekly SNS report/national online surveys/quantitative and quantative The CORONA-CODOMO headquarters is a group of researchers and doctors centered at the Department of Social Medicine and the Department of Child Psychiatry at the National Center for Child Health and Development, which aims to comprehensively understand the health, well-being and needs of children and their parents under the rapidly changing situation regarding COVID-19 and related measures, and to disseminate timely and useful information sources to promote early detection of problems, prevention and countermeasures, and by doing so minimize the negative impact of the pandemic on children’s lives. The headquarters were launched in early April, 2020 when the emergency status was first declared in Japan. During the year they have conducted a series of five national online surveys to clarify the situation of children and families as well as their needs, and through rapid qualitative as well as quantitative analysis maintained to create high quality reports whose results have had high impact on the society, being referenced in influential documents such as the pediatric guidelines and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare White papers, as well as through heavy coverage […]

Dr. Megan Harvey Public school/skype a scientist/translating evidence/volunteering/higher education Megan is an epidemiologist that specializes in maternal and child health during “normal” times. Starting in February of 2020, Megan began volunteering her expertise in reading and understanding epidemiological literature and basics of the science of infectious disease. Megan devoted countless hours throughout the spring and summer of 2020 to helping her institution safely reopen. As fall approached and it became clear that there would be no evidence-based assistance provided to public school districts in regards to safe learning in the pandemic, Megan additionally volunteered to help local school districts understand the pandemic and to create safe protocols and reopening plans. Megan has been meeting regularly with two local districts and consulting with other districts as requested, since August 2020, spending hours a week translating research and answering questions. This expanded to assisting the city she lives in with distributing data and presenting to a local coalition of health care providers. Finally, Megan also registered as a volunteer with Skype a Scientist, and has enjoyed zooming into classrooms of students throughout the country to talk about the pandemic and answer their questions.  

Dr. Aditi Srivastav Bussells Resiliency/Strategist/Storyteller/Health equity Public health scholar, storyteller, and strategist Dr. Aditi Srivastav Bussells has provided sound research, been actively involved in sharing resources and expert opinion through the media, and hosted community support events. Through her role as Director of Research for the Children’s Trust of South Carolina, she has published a number of articles about health equity and resiliency during this pandemic. As a Mayor-appointed member of the city of Columbia’s Complete Count Committee for the 2020 U.S. Census, Dr. Srivastav Bussells used her platform to promote the U.S. Census and its importance especially during times of health, social, and economic difficulty. Dr. Srivastav Bussells is also hosting community events at local churches to provide education, free masks, COVID-19 testing, and vaccine registration. https://www.postandcourier.com/free-times/news/covid19/sound-off-how-to-be-pro-economy-and-pro-public-health-during-the-covid-19/article_dc8a7c8a-a055-11ea-805c-575e8dae8973.html https://www.postandcourier.com/health/covid19/commentary-covid-19-crisis-gives-sc-a-chance-to-be-truly-resilient/article_1483a32c-79c9-11ea-8a4f-97cac7c3a401.html https://www.thestate.com/opinion/article243311401.html

Dr. Jason Salemi Covid-19/Florida/Dashboard/Media Dr. Jason Salemi is a perinatal epidemiologist and an associate professor at the University of South Florida. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Salemi shifted his focus to the pandemic and contributed countless hours and immense effort to the pandemic response. He single-handedly created a dashboard that tracked Covid-19 in Florida, posting daily statistics and trends covering all relevant metrics, leading it to become a popular and reliable resource for anyone involved in the pandemic response in Florida. Additionally, Dr. Salemi created several videos explaining various Covid-19 statistics and measures, was (and still is) a frequent guest on various media outlets, and was very active on Twitter (until recently). He accomplished all of this on top of his work as an associate professor and his very active research program, including Covid-related research. https://covid19florida.mystrikingly.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPGMoL9v8kPqjDRCE8qFcHw/videos?view_as=subscriber

Dr. Charlotte Kent Defender of Science/Clear Language Communicator/MMWR Editor-in-Chief/Public Health Leader Dr. Charlotte Kent is the editor-in-chief of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the voice of the CDC. Under her leadership, the MMWR has been a primary source of factual, unbiased science related to the domestic and international COVID-19 response. Since January of 2020, the MMWR has published >250 reports on COVID-19 which have been cited >7,000 times and have appeared in >35,000 media stories (>75% have Altmetric scores over 222 and are in the top 1% of all publications). Dr. Kent records weekly podcasts highlighting the weekly report’s major scientific findings in a clear-language accessible approach. In a year when science was often under attack, Dr. Kent defended and prevented compromise of the scientific integrity of the MMWR. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html

Dr. Eleanor Murray science communication/news media and social media/COVID-10 response corps/scientific rigor/mentor/ Ellie has been a creative and effective science communicator on issues ranging from complex epidemiologic methods to navigating life in the COVID-19 pandemic. At BU, she organized the COVID-19 Response Corps. She’s committed to health equity, thoughtful, and incredibly good at considering critical feedback. No one has been a more consistent, scientifically rigorous and accessible, moral, critical, courageous, reasoned, principled, and–when necessary–gladiatorial communicator of epidemiology and public health during this pandemic than Dr. Murray. Hundreds of thousands of people benefited from her work on twitter and in the press. Dr. Murray’s research focuses on causal inference methodology for improving evidence-based decision-making by patients, clinicians, and policy makers, particularly in the context of infectious disease. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Murray has gone to great lengths to help in the COVID-19 response. She has shown a strong commitment to high-quality and clear communication of public health topics to the general public as showcased through engagements with the media and serving as co-director of the Epidemiology COVID-19 Response Corps at Boston University. -Dr. Murray has been interviewed by multiple news outlets including national news, including The New York Times, NPR, […]