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New York City ??? November 13, NYAM researcher Danielle Ompad, PhD, presented an unconventional way to battle the threat of a bird flu pandemic at the 7th International Bird Flu Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Ompad’s talk on NYAM’s Project VIVA
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| NYAM's Project VIVA highlighted it strategy for increasing immunization coverage at the 7th International Bird Flu Summit. |
Delegates representing both the public and private sector gathered for the conference. The topics covered at the Summit focused on pandemic preparedness and included community strategies and delivery of vaccines and anti-viral medication.
The presentation of Project VIVA allowed a dialogue about distributing vaccines in unconventional sites, such as needle-exchange programs and in urban settings that are familiar locations to hard to reach populations.
In 2004 NYAM developed Project VIVA as a small-scale rapid-vaccination approach. Project VIVA involved vaccinating people on busy sidewalks in Harlem and by going door-to-door in housing projects in the South Bronx. Bilingual outreach workers from NYAM working with licensed nurses gave the flu vaccine to over 1,000 homeless, homebound elderly, immigrants, minorities, and injection drug users in a 10-day period during the 2005-06 flu season.
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Posted on November 26, 2008
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The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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