What has the pandemic taught us about public health?

Michigan Medicine April 18, 2022
Kara Gavin

The doctor who helped lead Michigan’s response for more than a year reflects on lessons learned.

In her first week on the job as the chief medical officer in Baltimore’s health department, she had to lead the investigation of a potential measles case.

A couple of years later, she was head of the Detroit health department, and leading response to the largest hepatitis A outbreak in modern history.

So by the time Joneigh Khaldun, M.D., M.P.H., became the state of Michigan’s chief medical executive, she had plenty of experience dealing with the communications, data analysis and the collaborative response needed to navigate a public health crisis.

And then came the once-in-a-century pandemic.

From the first days of the pandemic to...

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