What We Know About the New COVID-19 Vaccines: Are We There Yet?
Posted by Patricio V. Marquez
on Tue, 11/24/2020 - 02:09 PM
Patricio V Marquez and Betty Hanan
HOW TO STRENGTHEN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS TO SUPPORT COVID 19-VACCINATION?
Posted by Patricio V. Marquez
on Mon, 11/16/2020 - 06:56 PM
Patricio V. Marquez, Betty Hanan, Sheila Dutta, Mary Mulusa
Health Systems Fit for the Future: How to Promote Better Health, Economic Growth, and Social Cohesion?
Posted by Patricio V. Marquez
on Fri, 10/23/2020 - 04:47 PM
I recently had the honor of serving as a panelist in plenary session 5 “Health systems fit for the future: promoting better health, economic growth, and social cohesion”, that was held virtually as part of the 16th World Congress on Public Health: “Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action”, on October 15th, 2020.
Addressing Alcohol Use Disorders through Taxation: A Public Health and Economic Win-Win in the time of COVID-19
Posted by Patricio V. Marquez
on Sun, 09/06/2020 - 11:05 AM
“Taxes should be levied not with the idea of filling the public treasury at whatever cost to public morality and efficiency, but as method of reducing the consumption of alcohol”
---Raymond B. Fosdick and Albert L.
Let’s not forget about Mental Health during COVID-19!
Posted by Patricio V. Marquez
on Sat, 08/22/2020 - 09:42 AM
“Thus the first thing that plague brought to our town was exile…….It was undoubtedly the feeling of exile—that sensation of a void within which never left us, the irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to speed up the march of time, and those keen shafts of memory that stung like fire.”
Albert Camus (1957 Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature), The Plague
While waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine, it’s time to focus on gaps in vaccine distribution, cold chain, and uptake
Posted by Patricio V. Marquez
on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 11:12 PM
Patricio V. Marquez, Betty Hanan, and Sheila Dutta
Improving Health Services: A Global Imperative Amidst COVID-19
Posted by Patricio V. Marquez
on Mon, 06/22/2020 - 06:54 PM
Patricio V. Marquez and Lani Rice Marquez
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing”
Sustaining Essential Health Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Social Imperative
Posted by Patricio V. Marquez
on Mon, 06/15/2020 - 08:44 PM
Patricio V. Marquez, Huihui Wang, Lydia Ndebele
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic is currently affecting 188 countries and territories across all regions.
Social distancing in the time of COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean: Costs and Benefits
Posted by Patricio V. Marquez
on Thu, 05/14/2020 - 07:37 PM
Patricio V. Marquez, Santiago Herrera, and Luigi Butron Calderon
May 14, 2020
Do BCG Vaccinated People Have Some Immunity Advantage Over Non-Vaccinated People?
Posted by Patricio V. Marquez
on Tue, 04/21/2020 - 03:24 PM
