In this seminar Matt Boyce, a Ph.D. candidate in the global infectious diseases program at Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, presented the results from a survey focused on what cities were doing to prepare for pandemics prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the actions implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The results yield insights into how specific actions are implemented and coordinated with higher levels of government, when pandemic response actions were implemented, and how challenging pandemic response activities were perceived to be by local health authorities. This study was conducted in collaboration with colleagues at Resolve to Save Lives and Vital Strategies.
This event was open to all Georgetown University faculty, students, staff, and affiliates.
This event was co-sponsored by the Center for Global Health Science and Security, the School of Health’s Department of Health Management and Policy, and the Global Health Institute.
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Matt Boyce (G’24) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Global Infectious Disease Program in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Wynn Fellow at the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University. Boyce’s research tends to adopt an interdisciplinary lens that combines inputs from public health, public policy, and public finance to investigate local-level public health preparedness, especially in cities and urban environments. He has a bachelor of science honors degree in integrative biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master of science degree in global health from Duke University; he expects to graduate from Georgetown with his doctorate in May 2024.
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