Dr. Thomas LaVeist, Dean of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, addresses misperceptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have considered COVID-19 a foreign virus, however, it does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity...
Dr. Ronald Blanton, chair of the Tropical Medicine department at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, describes several aspects of the novel coronavirus and its transmission.
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine has launched Tulane Outbreak Daily, a curated daily wrap-up of the timeliest and most relevant news and data focused on emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19. The newsletter is curated and produced by Claudinne Miller, an...
NBA legend and global humanitarian Dikembe Mutombo will deliver the commencement address for the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. “Dikembe Mutombo was a natural choice to address our students at graduation,” said Dr. Thomas LaVeist, dean of the school. “Dikembe is a...
The World Health Organization announced that it would be calling the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine will host a forum on Friday about what infectious disease experts know about the emerging 2019 novel coronavirus, how local health...
