COVID-19: A catalyst for change in telehealth service delivery for opioid use disorder management
Dr. Kelly Knight examines the exacerbating effects of COVID-19 on existing structural inequities that drive addiction and opioid use disorder and how the co-existence of the COVID-19 pandemic and opioid epidemic has necessitated changes in care practice.
SACRED Birth During COVID-19
Karen Scott, MD, MPH, joint faculty member with Ob-Gyn, is the primary investigator (PI) leading this study designed for, by, and with Black mothers and Black birthing people to share information about their patient experiences in hospital settings during labor, birth, and postpartum.
Disaster Capitalism and COVID-19
Professor Vincanne Adams writes for the medical anthropology collaborative SOMATOSPHERE on whether past responses to natural disasters can inform the way we handle the current pandemic, and whether it will be exploited for private profit.
San Francisco's Pandemic Parallels: 1918 and 2020
History of Health Sciences PhD candidate Aaron Jackson writes for the UCSF Archives and Special Collections about the ways history does and does not repeat itself in his examination of San Francisco's response to the influenza crisis of 1918-1919.
Disease Prevention Under Pandemic Authority
Professor Dorothy Porter examines the history of quarantine mandates and the limits of government interventions in disease control in a new Perspectives in Medical Humanities article. Free PDF download available through UC eScholarship Repository.
How History of Medicine Helps Us Understand COVID-19 Challenges
Dr. Brian Dolan teams with UCSF epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford to examine how historical questions helped frame current policies in managing COVID-19 in a new article in Public Health Reports.
It Wasn't Supposed to be a Coronavirus
Dr. Dolan's recent article in Centaurus, the journal of the European Society for the History of Science, special issue on pandemics history, looks at efforts to prepare candidate vaccines against A(H5N1), the avian influenza virus that was considered most likely to cause a pandemic crisis before COVID-19.
Who was Behind the Anti-Mask League Protests in 1918 Influenza Epidemic in San Francisco?
The "Anti-Mask League" that formed in San Francisco in 1918 to protest the mask mandate foreshadowed current discomfort over the politicization of masking. In a new article, Dr. Brian Dolan investigates the politics behind the movement a century ago and discusses the dangers of turning a public health measure into a political weapon.