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Medical Grand Rounds: Global Experience with the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from Public Health Responses in Haiti, Malawi and Vietnam

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  • On March 4, 2021, the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital co-hosted a virtual Grand Rounds presentation related to COVID-19 with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, interim chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, and experts from the local Boston medical community, spoke about the global experience with the virus
  • They shared lessons learned from Haiti, Malawi and Vietnam

On March 4, 2021, the Department of Medicine held a virtual Grand Rounds on COVID-19. Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, interim chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, and experts from the local Boston medical community, spoke about the global experience with the virus. They shared lessons learned from Haiti, Malawi and Vietnam.

The session was moderated by Katrina Armstong, MD, physician-in-chief in the Department of Medicine at Mass General. Other speakers included Inobert Pierre, MD, St. Boniface Hospital director general, Health Equity International, Haiti; Todd M. Pollack, MD, FIDSA, country director, The Partnership for Health Advancement in Vietnam (HAIVN), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Sara Suliman, MPH, PhD, director of the MGB Center for COVID-19 Innovation (MGBCCI) Diagnostics Accelerator Lab and instructor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Gama Petulo Bandawe, PhD, senior lecturer and head of department, Department of Biological Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, Malawi University of Science and Technology.

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