Articles by: Geisel Communications

Poor Countries Have Made Extraordinary Progress Against Epidemic Disease. We Need to Learn From Them – STAT News

Read article – An opinion piece by Anne Sosin, the global health initiative program director at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, in which she discusses what the United States can learn from some of the world’s poorest countries as it grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s clear that we need to support low and middle-income countries in preparing for this looming threat. At the same time we also need to learn from the early leadership of Peru and other countries, including Rwanda and Nigeria, in addressing this epidemic. We can also learn from the vast gains many of the world’s poorest countries have made in reducing deaths from epidemic disease,” says Sosin.

Ex-Astronaut Launches Training Kit for Coping With Self-Isolation – The Guardian

Read article – Quotes Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, in a feature story about how he launched an online self-help toolkit aimed at replicating the kind of training designed to help astronauts cope with confinement in small spaces for extended periods. The online training, called the Dartmouth Path Program, was developed to determine how the space program can manage pressures brought on by long-duration spaceflight. “It’s challenging to be isolated with a small group of people and to not be able to get away,” said Buckey. “Outer space and your own living room might be drastically different physically, but emotionally the stressors can be the same.”

I’m About to Graduate From Medical School, and I’m Ready to Join the Coronavirus Fight – Hartford Courant

Read article – An opinion piece by Christiaan Rees, Geisel ’16, Guarini ’18, in which he discusses how some medical schools are being asked to expedite the graduation of fourth-year students who would be willing to begin their residency early, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Rees reflects on his fellow classmates’ response to COVID-19, and medical students’ willingness to help. “I had envisioned that my final three months of medical school would be an opportunity to rejuvenate before beginning what will undoubtedly be one of the most trying years of my training,” says Reese. “I had planned to travel—to drive cross-country and to hike in the Rocky Mountains. I had hoped to think a little less about science and a little more about art—to read, to watch films, to frequent the woodworking studio again. But if I am summoned, I will go without either reservation or regret.”