{"id":1965,"date":"2020-12-08T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.giving.georgetown.edu\/stewardship\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:54:25","slug":"student-researchers-join-katz-in-the-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.giving.georgetown.edu\/stewardship\/sir2020\/student-researchers-join-katz-in-the-fight-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Student researchers join Katz in the fight against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n\n<div\n    class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-body-text  \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n\n    <div class=\"c--component c--article-body-text\"\n        >\n\n              \n    \n\n\n\n<div\n        class=\"f--field f--richtext \"\n                        >\n\n    \n      <p>Battling the COVID-19 pandemic presents copious challenges\u2014to healthcare, the economy, society, government, and people and communities worldwide. Successfully mitigating its destructive impact likewise relies upon effective collaboration among those same disparate forces. All levels of government and society must drive that collaboration by devising and implementing policies informed by accurate and reliable data that answer questions like which policy decisions help control the disease and which exacerbate the outbreak?<\/p>\n<p>To build an effective and compelling evidence base, a Georgetown research team\u2014led by Rebecca Katz, Ph.D., MPH, at the medical center\u2019s Center for Global Health Science and Security (CGHSS), and supported in part by two donor-funded undergraduate assistantships\u2014has developed COVID AMP: COVID Analysis and Mapping of Policies, a platform available online at COVIDAMP.org.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><!-- f--field f--richtext -->\n\n    <\/div><!-- c--component c--article-body-text -->\n\n<\/div><!-- cc--component-container cc--article-body-text -->\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n<blockquote\n    class=\"cc--component-container cc--pull-quote futura-book-oblique text-georgetown-blue \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n\n    <div class=\"c--component c--pull-quote\"\n        >\n\n              \n    \n\n\n\n<div\n        class=\"f--field f--richtext \"\n                        >\n\n    \n      <p>\u201cNot many undergraduates get to play a role in research that will almost certainly save countless lives worldwide. We love being able to facilitate that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><!-- f--field f--richtext -->\n  \n    <\/div><!-- c--component c--pull-quote -->\n\n<\/blockquote><!-- cc--component-container cc--pull-quote -->\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n<div\n    class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-body-text  \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n\n    <div class=\"c--component c--article-body-text\"\n        >\n\n              \n    \n\n\n\n<div\n        class=\"f--field f--richtext \"\n                        >\n\n    \n      <figure id=\"attachment_1614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1614\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1614 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/my.giving.georgetown.edu\/stewardship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/11\/EnsuringSafeandHealthyCampuses_ArticlePage_Katz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.giving.georgetown.edu\/stewardship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/11\/EnsuringSafeandHealthyCampuses_ArticlePage_Katz.jpg 405w, https:\/\/my.giving.georgetown.edu\/stewardship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/11\/EnsuringSafeandHealthyCampuses_ArticlePage_Katz-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Katz, Ph.D., MPH, was named an advisor for President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s coronavirus task force in November 2020. Her research team at Georgetown is tracking COVID-19 policies worldwide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Her team, in close collaboration with the research and development team at Talus Analytics, has accumulated a detailed repository of over 17,000 policies implemented at the international, national, state, and county levels to respond to COVID-19, including timelines and the associated legal authorities upon which they draw.<\/p>\n<p>With every new development, Katz\u2019s team captures the key actions in its dataset, visualized and accessible through a web-based tool\u2014from mandating masks to policies against using tear gas at peaceful protests\u2014which may spread the virus. According to Katz, the platform supports rigorous statistical analysis, allowing for the linking of longitudinal policy implementation with caseload, mobility metrics, and other data, to analyze relationships between policies and target outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate research assistants Timothy Rudolph-Math and May Tan, are recipients of Summer 2020 Academic Assistantships established by the SFS COVID-19 Support Fund, made possible in part by the generous gift of Paul (C\u201962) and Chandler Tagliabue. Rudolph-Math and Tan help Katz find and track international policies and plans related to the COVID-19 response. Their work consists of policy research, data management, and report writing in support of the COVID Local and COVID-AMP tools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very thankful for the support and the opportunity to work with talented students across Georgetown,\u201d said Katz, who was named an advisor for President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s coronavirus task force in November 2020. \u201cTim and May have been invaluable members of the research team, and will continue to work with the Center on COVID response efforts during the academic year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the things that make supporting Georgetown so exciting for Chan, and me\u201d said Tagliabue. \u201cNot many undergraduates get to play a role in research that will almost certainly save countless lives worldwide. 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