The Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is sorry to announce the passing of Dr. Donald Krogstad, a long-time professor of tropical medicine and a renowned malaria researcher. Don was a major contributor to the school and was known as an excellent colleague to the many faculty and...
Photo of Drs. Keith Ferdinand, Christine Bojanowski, and John Lefante, just some of the Tulane authors of this study Body mass index (BMI) is associated with the development of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and admission to intensive care units (ICU) in African Americans, according to...
First-line treatment with nivolumab plus ipilimumab or pembrolizumab were the more cost-effective options for newly diagnosed advanced melanoma with unknown BRAF pathogenic variant status, a cost-utility analysis reveals. The analysis was done by Dr. Lizheng Shi, the interim chair of the...
Judith Kunyiha (PHTM *95) is a Kenya-based advocate for policy change and development who has overseen multiple national and regional programs at the United Nations and non-governmental organizations. A programming expert for more than 20 years, she has brought her public health training to such...
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. (Photo Credit, NIAID-RML) A recent Tulane study published in Science of...
