The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Washington,D.C. that was established in 1876. It represents medical schools,teaching hospitals,and academic and scientific societies,while providing services to its member institutions that include data from medical,education,and health studies,as well as consulting. The AAMC administers the Medical College Admission Test and operates the American Medical College Application Service and the Electronic Residency Application Service. Along with the American Medical Association (AMA),the AAMC co-sponsors the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME),the accrediting body for all U.S. MD-granting medical education programs.
Thomas R. Frieden is an American infectious disease and public health physician. He serves as president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives,a $225 million,five-year initiative to prevent epidemics and cardiovascular disease.
Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg is an American physician and public health administrator,who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and co-chair of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). She served as the 21st Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from May 2009 to April 2015.
Healthcare in New York City describe the health care services available in New York City,the largest US city with a population of over eight million.
The CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY Medicine) is the medical school of The City University of New York (CUNY). Founded in 2015 on The City College of New York (CCNY) campus,CUNY Medicine became the only public medical school in Manhattan and the first medical school to open in New York City since 1860.
Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who was the 17th Health Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health,being appointed to the position by Governor Kathy Hochul on September 29,2021,until December 31,2022. From 2014 to 2018,she was the commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Bassett is the Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also an associate professor of clinical epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
African Americans constitute one of the longer-running ethnic presences in New York City,home to the largest urban African American population,and the world's largest Black population of any city outside Africa,by a significant margin. As of the 2010 census,the number of African Americans residing in New York City was over 2 million. The highest concentration of African Americans are in Brooklyn,Harlem,Queens,and The Bronx. New York City is also home to the highest number of immigrants from the Caribbean.
Ashish Kumar Jha is an Indian-American general internist physician and academic who served as the White House COVID-19 response coordinator from 2022–2023. He has been Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health since 2020. Prior to Brown,he was the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute,and a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group. Jha is recognized as one of the leading health policy scholars in the nation. Jha's role at Brown University focuses on improving the quality and cost of health care,and on the impact of public health policy.
Syra Madad is an American pathogen preparedness expert and infectious disease epidemiologist. Madad is the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals where she is part of the executive leadership team which oversees New York City's response to the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the city's 11 public hospitals. She was featured in the Netflix documentary series Pandemic:How to Prevent an Outbreak and the Discovery Channel documentary The Vaccine:Conquering COVID.
The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City was confirmed on March 1,2020,though later research showed that the novel coronavirus had been circulating in New York City since January,with cases of community transmission confirmed as early as February. By March 29,over 30,000 cases were confirmed,and New York City had become the worst-affected area in the United States. There were over 2,000 deaths by April 6;at that stage,the city had more confirmed coronavirus cases than China,the UK,or Iran. Bodies of the deceased were picked up from their homes by the US Army,National Guard,and Air National Guard.
Bonnie J. Fraser Henry is a Canadian epidemiologist,physician,and public servant who has been the provincial health officer at the British Columbia Ministry of Health since 2014. Henry is also a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She is a specialist in public health and preventive medicine,and is a family doctor. In her role as provincial health officer,Henry notably led the response to COVID-19 in British Columbia (BC).
Dara Ann Kass is a practicing emergency medicine physician and a consultant in healthcare policy and impact. She is a longtime advocate for advancing the careers of women in medicine. While treating patients during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic,Kass became infected,sharing her disease course and serving as a public health messenger. Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization supreme court decision,Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization she has focused on healthcare policy and advocacy related to reproductive healthcare,specifically on the care patients receive in Emergency Departments.
Oxiris Barbot is an American pediatrician who served as the Commissioner of Health of the City of New York from 2018 to 2020. She was then appointed to public health positions with Columbia University and the JPB Foundation,and in 2022 became president and chief executive officer of the nonprofit United Hospital Fund.
Allison Joan McGeer is a Canadian infectious disease specialist in the Sinai Health System,and a professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. She also appointed at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and a Senior Clinician Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute,and is a partner of the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases. McGeer has led investigations into the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in Toronto and worked alongside Donald Low. During the COVID-19 pandemic,McGeer has studied how SARS-CoV-2 survives in the air and has served on several provincial committees advising aspects of the Government of Ontario's pandemic response.
Michelle Evelyn Morse is an American internist. She is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-founded EqualHealth and Social Medicine Consortium. She is currently the interim Commissioner of Health for the City of New York.
Jay Varma is a physician and epidemiologist who previously served as senior advisor for public health and COVID-19 to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Ashwin Vasan is an American physician,epidemiologist,and health and human services leader,who is a public health professor and practicing primary care doctor at Columbia University,who most recently served as the 44th commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Vasan was also the president and CEO of Fountain House,a national mental health nonprofit.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.
Denis Nash is distinguished professor of epidemiology at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health &Health Policy in the City University of New York. Nash is the founding executive director of the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health. He is also the associate director of the NIH-funded Einstein,Rockefeller,CUNY Center for AIDS Research (CFAR).
Ayman El-Mohandes is an American epidemiologist and the dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health &Health Policy since 2013. He was the dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center from 2009 to 2013. He is a pediatrician and specialist in neonatal medicine and infant mortality in minority populations. El-Mohandes is an expert on vaccine hesitancy and acceptance.
