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Streamlining Preparedness: A Practical Pathway to Special Pathogens Management Open

S. E. Brown, Priya Dhagat, Aishani V. Aatresh, Saoirse Bodnar, Syra Madad · 2025

Managing special pathogens cases, also known as high consequence infectious diseases, presents unique challenges for healthcare systems. It requires thorough planning and comprehensive operational protocols, as well as an appreciation of h…

Enhancing Healthcare Preparedness: Lessons from a Tabletop Exercise on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Open

Priya Dhagat, Joshua Coan, A. Ganguly, Cole Puetz, David M. Silvestri , et al. · 2025

Tabletop exercises offer a structured opportunity to assess strengths and potential gaps in preparedness and response plans in a safe learning environment. The New York City Health + Hospitals System-Wide Special Pathogens Program conducte…

The 2022–2023 USA Respiratory Viral ‘Tripledemic’: Healthcare Lessons Learned Open

Syra Madad, R. James Salway, Jason Raggi, David M. Silvestri, Thomas G. Cotter , et al. · 2023

Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 2 Mins 23rd November Evaluation of Bacteremia in Febrile Neutropenia and Implications on Antimicrobial Stewardship

Reimagining Public Health Literacy in Outbreak Settings Open

Margaret A. Burkhardt, Jennifer Weuve, Traci Hong, Syra Madad, Eleanor J. Murray · 2023

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the proliferation and uptake of misinformation and disinformation revealed widespread misunderstanding of health and infectious diseases that hampered effective response to a global pandemic. Viewing this …

A protocol for testing monkeypox (mpox) preparedness in healthcare delivery systems Open

Tsion Yared, Lily Cohen, Aishani V. Aatresh, Yi-Lan Zhang, Priya Dhagat , et al. · 2023

Overcoming COVID-19 Misinformation: Lessons Learned at the Epicentre of the Outbreak in the USA Open

Maurice Policar, Syra Madad · 2022

THE COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the dire need to foster increased public confidence in mitigation and prevention strategies through more and better health literacy. More than 2 years into the worst public health crisis of the 21st ce…

Community-Based Workforce for COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Prevention Activities in New York City, July–December 2020 Open

Chi-Chi N. Udeagu, Jamie Huang, Kavita Misra, Thomas Terilli, Yasmin Ramos , et al. · 2022

Objectives: High rates of hospitalization and death disproportionately affected Black, Latino, and Asian residents of New York City at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. To suppress COVID-19 transmission, New York City implemented a w…

In Layman’s Terms: The Power and Problem of Science Communication Open

Yash Shah, Robert Glatter, Syra Madad · 2022

Improved policies for science communication are needed to ensure scientific progress in coming decades. The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated massive gaps in science communication, ranging from masking and social distancing mandates to vaccina…

ICE volume 42 issue 11 Cover and Front matter Open

Diane Meyer, Elena Martín, Syra Madad, Priya Dhagat, Jennifer B. Nuzzo , et al. · 2021

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The emergence and transmission of COVID-19 in European countries, 2019–2020: a comprehensive review of timelines, cases and containment Open

Waleed S. Al-Salem, Paula Moraga, Hani Ghazi, Syra Madad, Peter J. Hotez · 2021

When it emerged in late 2019, COVID-19 was carried via travelers to Germany, France and Italy, where freedom of movement accelerated its transmission throughout Europe. However, effective non-pharmaceutical interventions introduced by Euro…

Interactive, Hands-On Training for Hospital Workers Increases Level of Special Pathogen Preparedness Open

Eleanor Tolf, Syra Madad · 2021

The purpose of this evaluation was to determine the effect of intensive, interactive training on hospital workers’ preparedness for special pathogen cases by utilizing the Frontline Facility Special Pathogens Training Course created by the…

The USA's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak could have informed its COVID-19 response Open

Syra Madad, Craig Spencer · 2021

Interactive, Hands-On Training for Hospital Workers Increases Level of Special Pathogen Preparedness Open

Eleanor Tolf, Syra Madad · 2021

The purpose of this evaluation is to determine the effect of intensive, interactive training on hospital workers’ preparedness for special pathogen cases by utilizing the Frontline Facility Special Pathogens Training Course created b…

Preparedness and response to an emerging health threat—Lessons learned from <i>Candida auris</i> outbreaks in the United States Open

Diane Meyer, Elena Martín, Syra Madad, Priya Dhagat, Jennifer B. Nuzzo · 2021

Objective: Candida auris infections continue to occur across the United States and abroad, and healthcare facilities that care for vulnerable populations must improve their readiness to respond to this emerging organism. We aimed to identi…

Ready or Not, Patients Will Present: Improving Urban Pandemic Preparedness Open

Syra Madad, Joshua B. Moskovitz, Matthew R Boyce, Nicholas V. Cagliuso, Rebecca Katz · 2020

Over the past century, society has achieved great gains in medicine, public health, and health-care infrastructure, particularly in the areas of vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation, intensive care and medical technology. Still, despite these…

Preparedness for Zika Virus Disease — New York City, 2016 Open

Syra Madad, Joseph Masci, Nicholas V. Cagliuso, Machelle Allen · 2016

The rapid spread of Zika virus across the World Health Organization's Region of the Americas has had a direct effect on the U.S. health care delivery system. Hospitals in New York City (NYC) have been implementing prevention and response e…

Bioterrorism: An Emerging Global Health Threat Open

Syra Madad · 2015

The threat of bioterrorism has heightened over the past few years, given the history of asymmetric warfare. This threat posed by biological weapons is especially challenging, given the unique characteristics of these agents coupled with th…

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