A team of researchers at the CVM recently published a perspective in Frontiers in Veterinary Science on the process of using risk maps and risk regionalization as tools to inform actionable decisions through stakeholder engagement
Veterinary public health and preventive medicine residents have contributed to COVID-19 response initiatives in human and veterinary medicine, worker safety, monitoring and evaluation, and infection control.
In this week’s reflection, I’ll discuss the conditions and beliefs we deem more important than others and how they influence complacency, action, and even hierarchical responses to chronic racism, pandemics, or urgent threats to patriotism.
The death of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic remind us that structural racism is woven into how our country functions, and have revealed overt unfairness and privilege.
Much of the flawed pandemic response can be traced to inexcusably poor systems thinking.