SER Presidential Address On Critical Factors Behind The COVID Pandemic Gets Replayed As An Op-Ed In The New York Times “Science Alone Can’t Heal A Sick Society”. That’s the provocative title of a compelling op-ed essay written by McGill University epidemiologist Jay Kaufman and published in the New York Times in mid-September.
Kaufman notes that many theories and explanations have come and gone to explain the patterns observed in the COVID pandemic, but the most consistent association is the same one discovered by Rudolf Virchow in the
1800’s. That is, social factors best account for risks of infection, hospitalizations, and deaths. In short, the pandemic is “socially patterned”. Relational Factors According to Kaufman, while wealth or lack of it explains some of the variation in risks within populations, the best explanations for the patterns observed at the higher levels of states and nations are relational factors such as - SER con't on page 2
IEA World Congress Of Epidemiology Takes Place Virtually Under Australasian Sponsorship Conference Is A Window On The Thinking Of Epidemiologists Today “Data saves lives—but only if appropriately gathered, analyzed, and acted upon”, “Failing to collect accurate ethnicity data amounts to data genocide”, “What the general public want is the truth. They are sick to the teeth of obfuscating politicians. They don’t want things gilded, they want to hear it as it is”. These are some of the statements that emerged from the recent World Congress of September 2021
Epidemiology. It opened on September 4 with a moment of silence to acknowledge the more than 4.5 million people who have died from COVID-19 to date, and with particular mention of epidemiologists and public health workers Among the topic areas covered at the meeting were COVID-19, mental ovascular disease, health and equity, - IEA cont'd on page 7 •
Volume Forty Two •
Number Nine
In This Issue -2Interview With McGill's Jay Kaufman -10Notes On People -13Near Term Epi Event Calendar -14Career & Event Marketplace with 7 Major Job & Event Listings