Since it’s known that viral RNA is shed through feces, even in asymptomatic individuals, the best way to head off COVID-19 outbreaks in New Orleans and elsewhere might just prove to be its waste. Or, as Samendra Sherchan, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences puts it: “Poop never lies!”
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Sprinting to the Front Lines is a rapid funding mechanism for Tulane students to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. Teams of current Tulane students were invited to submit a proposal that would directly impact the health and wellbeing of the New Orleans community during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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A team of Tulane University students from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the School of Medicine was accepted into the international John Hopkins Center for Bioengineering and Design COVID-19 Design Challenge, one of only 200 teams. Tonye Fohsta-Lynch, a School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine graduate student in maternal and child health, contacted Alessandra Bazzano,…
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Six fellows with connections to Tulane University have been named to the Global Health Fellows and Scholars Program of the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health. The Global Health Fellows program is spread out across six different university consortia, and Tulane is part of the UJMT Consortium, administrated through the University of North Carolina. “Tulane is proud…
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This spring the Tulane MD/MPH Program placed and supported several students in COVID response projects at the DePaul Community Health Center. Mark Dal Corso, MD, MPH, associate professor of global community health and behavioral sciences at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a pediatrician at DePaul Community Health Center serves as the faculty director for the MD/MPH…
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