without health care, Knaul indicated. By contrast some other Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia, have established conditional cash transfer programs to families during the pandemic that have helped support many. Strong stewardship and leadership are also important in curbing both the pandemic and domestic violence, Knaul stated. She mentioned, as an example of failed leadership, when the president of Mexico denied that domestic violence was an issue even when faced with a surge of deaths. Both speakers also agreed that COVID-19 has brought to the fore the increase of cyber violence, particularly against women and children. Clinton acknowledged that for five years the World Health Organization has explored the ways that cyber violence can have real health consequences, but there are no legally successfully strategies to target this violence.
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AND GLOBAL COLLABORATION CAN HELP END THE PANDEMIC Written by Janette Neuwahl Tannen Published on October 16, 2020 Category: University of Miami President, Faculty, Event
“We actually don’t have good evidence of what works to help prevent or treat the effects of cyberbullying,” she admitted. Adding that it was quite “painful to live under this leadership” and to see a “president that is actively fomenting cyber violence.”
During a virtual panel discussion hosted by the University of Washington, President Julio Frenk discussed global responses to the pandemic—and what is needed to move forward.
The Lancet Commission on Gender-based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People and the University of Miami will continue to hold monthly seminars to explore this topic.
University of Miami President Julio Frenk, a noted global public health scholar, said that as the boundaries between local and global populations continue to blur, we must collaborate with partners around the world to end the COVID-19 pandemic. “Global health is about understanding the way in which events that happen in one part of the world affect other parts of the world, and the pandemic has obviously brought that into amazing and sharp contrast,” said Frenk, who served as minister of health of Mexico as well as dean of the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University before coming to the University of Miami. “It also underscores the need to take that population perspective to devise solutions because we can only address these challenges with global solutions.” Frenk spoke at a virtual panel dis-
cussion Thursday night hosted by the University of Washington, where University of Miami alumna Ana Mari Cauce, is president. The talk, “Creating a Better Normal: Improving Population Health for Everyone,” was moderated by Hanson Hosein, who leads the University of Washington’s Communication Leadership graduate program. The University of Washington’s Seattle campus is home to the offices of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent population health research center that aims to provide an impartial, evidence-based picture of global health, where Frenk serves as chair of the board of directors. Projections from the IHME have been used widely by government officials and the media to gauge the future severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, both in the United States and now for nations around the world. The discussion included insights from University of Washington faculty members about how to improve population health—eliminating diseases and injuries while also considering the intersecting and overlapping factors that influence health—in the environment, infrastructure, and in the health care sector. In 2016 Cauce identified population health as a major initiative
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