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EASTHAMPTON — As COVID-19 cases reach unprecedented levels in the current wave, communities are continuing to conduct contact tracing work for the disease, even as the infrastructure and protocols around the practice have shifted since the early days...

The MA Community Tracing Collaborative began in April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. Read more on Boston.com.

While up from just 170 staff in July, it’s still far below the peak numbers of 2,200 employees in January 2021.

Jeanette Millard 76. Photo by Beth Greely. Tackling sensitive topics with strangers: the making of a master communicator by MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson For more than 25 years, Jeanette Millard ’76 has guided corporations and professionals through a broad spectrum of challenging transitions, including global expansions, leadership shake-ups and broader cultural shifts. Then COVID-19 arrived, and the major changes she grappled with were the ones at her own front door. What do you do when the in-per...

PIH in Images: 2020 From homes to hospitals, on rough roads and steep slopes, from capitals to rural communities, these moments in time give a glimpse of how PIHers around the world joined together this year to respond to COVID-19, continue lifesaving services across all of our health care areas, and show that health is a human right   Posted on Dec 23, 2020 Health workers with Socios En Salud, as PIH is known in Peru, work in full PPE to provide vital care and support in Lima. ...

By Christian M. Wade Statehouse Reporter Dec 14, 2020 Dec 14, 2020 BOSTON — Roughly a quarter of efforts to contact people who may be infected with the coronavirus because of a close contact with someone who has tested positive are unsuccessful, according to state health data. The state’s COVID-19 Community Tracing Collaborative, a partnership between the Baker administration and the nonprofit group Partners in Health, has reached nearly 146,000 people who might be infe...