Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States.
Front Public Health. 2022 Oct 25;10:896195. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.896195. eCollection 2022.
The emergence of COVID-19 immediately affected higher education, and the closure of campuses at the start of the pandemic in March of 2020 forced educational institutions to quickly adapt to changing circumstances. Schools of public health faced challenges not only of shifting to remote learning and work environments, but also uniquely redirecting public health research and service efforts toward COVID-19. This paper offers a case study of how the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University (GWSPH), the only school of public health in the nation's capital, initially adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a modified version of the Public Health Preparedness and Response Core Competency Model created by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we analyze how GWSPH worked in three areas-research, education, service/operations. We reviewed this initial response across four domains: model leadership; communication and management of information; planning and improving practice; and protecting worker (and student) health and safety. The adaptation of the model and the analysis of GWSPH's initial response to the pandemic can be useful to other schools of public health and health sciences in the United States and beyond, in preparing for all hazards. We hope that such analysis also informs the current concerns of schools such as return to in-person education as well as planning for future public health crises.
COVID-19 的出现立即影响了高等教育，2020 年 3 月大流行病开始时校园关闭，迫使教育机构迅速适应不断变化的环境。公共卫生学校不仅面临着向远程学习和工作环境转变的挑战，而且还面临着将公共卫生研究和服务工作独特地转向 COVID-19 的挑战。本文通过对乔治华盛顿大学米尔肯公共卫生学院（GWSPH）的案例研究，探讨了美国首都唯一的公共卫生学校最初如何应对 COVID-19 大流行。GWSPH 在研究、教育和服务/运营这三个领域开展工作，我们使用了由公共卫生学校和项目协会以及疾病控制与预防中心创建的公共卫生准备和应对核心能力模型的修改版本，分析了 GWSPH 的工作情况。我们在四个领域审查了这一初步应对措施：模型领导力；信息的沟通和管理；计划和改进实践；以及保护工人（和学生）的健康和安全。模型的适应以及对 GWSPH 对大流行的初步反应的分析，可以为美国乃至其他国家的其他公共卫生和健康科学学校在应对所有灾害方面提供有用的参考。我们希望这种分析也能为学校关注的问题提供信息，例如恢复面对面教育以及为未来的公共卫生危机做计划。
