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COVID-19 Daily Briefings

by Jonathan Pringle on 2020-05-21T09:00:00-06:00 in Epidemiology | 0 Comments

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Did you know that there is a collaborative team of researchers at HSC who scrape the global literature and social media posts related to COVID-19, 6 days a week, vet them for quality, and then compile them into shortened briefings for other researchers, legislators, and providers?

If not, check out and learn the latest/greatest from across the globe, at the Daily Briefings page in the UNM Digital Repository!

A subgroup of the larger New Mexico Medical Advisory Team and Led by UNM Associate Professor Dr. Christophe Lambert, the team size ranges from 10-30 contributors (including students and folks from the UNM Center for Global Health) who work Sunday through Friday evenings for up to two hours each night. They take Saturdays off and spend Sunday night compiling information from both Saturday and Sunday. On average, the team reviews (daily) anywhere from 500-700 individual research articles, news stories, and social media posts, then whittles them down to 30-70 items that meet specific criteria for inclusion. These are then summarized in an easy-to-read format in a brief, 3-6 page document. It is a daunting task, to say the least!

The payoff has been most rewarding, with metrics confirming that these briefings have been downloaded over 1000 times and in nearly 80 countries! 

UNM Professor and section chief for geriatrics, Dr. David Scrase, and presently New Mexico's Secretary of Human Services, recently complimented and “thanked [the] team for [their] efforts and mentioned that he reads [the briefing] each night as the best part of his day and adds his favorite articles to his daily PowerPoint slides for updating the Governor.”

Kudos to HSLIC's own Ingrid Hendrix and Lori Sloane for their efforts and collaborations with this invaluable team!

Would you like to be on the listserv and get notification when the newest briefing is ready? Signup is quick and simple:

  1. Email with a blank subject line to: listserv@list.unm.edu
  2. In the body include a single line: subscribe GLOBALHEALTHCOVID19-L [YourFirstname] [YourLastname]
  3. You will receive an email requesting confirmation that you want to join the list
  4. Make sure to check your junk folder to "un-junk" material from this list

 


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