As the effects of COVID-19 continue to evolve, our ONE team understands that this is a challenging and difficult time, and we are thinking of you all. This pandemic is affecting both our local neighborhoods and our global community in an unprecedented way. As we adjust to this temporary reality, these unsettling times remind us why our mission is so important. As we’ve painfully seen with COVID-19, diseases don’t respect borders and the need for collective action on global health...
Dr. Martin Dedicoat is a consultant in infectious diseases at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. We interviewed him as part of our #PassTheMic campaign. Here’s some of what he had to say. Learning from each other during this time is vital. A repository of information to show responses that have worked and those that haven’t would be useful. For example, in Medellin, Colombia, they’ve done something for people who come to hospital with symptoms of COVID, but are not ill enough to...
Harriet Walton is an Emergency Medicine Nurse at University College Hospital, London. We interviewed her as part of our #PassTheMic campaign. Here’s some of what she had to say. I work in an emergency department in central London so, as you can imagine, we get patients from all over the world. In the UK we are extremely fortunate to have the National Health Service (NHS), and it should never be taken for granted. We have one of the best health systems...