Harvard students with the Academic Public Health Volunteer Corps have been working to support local health agencies in advancing health equity and improving public health since March 2020.
With more than 900 student, alumni, and expert volunteers from around 140 communities across Massachusetts, the APHVC is the first program developed by the Academic Health Department Consortium a partnership between the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and eight local public health schools and organizations, including Harvard’s, formed in 2019.
In an April interview, Harvard School of Public Health Dean Michelle A. Williams lauded the importance of Harvard students and faculty already being involved in the Consortium prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Then.splat! The tiny blood-sucking demon is smashed under your palm.
And then the itching begins.
It’s mosquito season again and the state Department of Public Health is on the lookout for two potentially fatal viruses carried by infected mosquitoes: Eastern Equine encephalitis (EEE or Triple E) and West Nile Virus (WNV).
Testing sample mosquitoes this year began on June 14 and, so far, none have come back positive for either virus, said Katheline Conti, media relations director at Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
EEE tends to strike every 10 to 20 years, with each outbreak lasting two to three years.
This year marks year three of the EEE outbreak that began in 2019, Conti noted.