March 27, 2024
Non-pharmaceutical Interventions for COVID-19 Proved Most Effective When Universally Adopted, Studies Show
Professor co-authored two studies looking at mitigation strategies in U.S. and China
Posted in: Department Research, Faculty
Published in the scientific journal Applied Geography, the studies, titled Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Holistic View of Social Distancing on the Spread of COVID-19 in China and published in the journal Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Governance Policy Evaluation in the US During the Pandemic: Non-pharmaceutical Interventions or Else? confirmed the efficacy of NPI strategies on flattening the curve and made recommendations for investigating the measures on both a macro and micro level in the hopes of informing future policy decisions.