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Medical Grand Rounds: COVID-19 in Low-Resourced Settings—Reaching for Global Health Equity

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  • On March 19, 2020, the Department of Medicine held its second virtual Grand Rounds presentation related to COVID-19
  • Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, executive director of the Mass General Center for Global Health, along with other members of the Greater Boston and world medical community, presented on the global effects of the pandemic and helping countries that have inequities of care

On March 19, 2020, the Department of Medicine held held its second virtual Grand Rounds presentation related to COVID-19. Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, executive director of the Mass General Center for Global Health, along with other members of the Greater Boston and world medical community, presented on the global effects of the pandemic and helping countries that have inequities of care.

The session was moderated by Katrina Armstong, MD, physician-in-chief in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and speakers included David Walton, MD, MPH, Build Health International, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inobert Pierre, MD, Health Equity International, Fonds des Blancs, Haiti, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD, Columbia University, Centre for the Programme of AIDS Research in South Africa, and Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Partners In Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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