Harvard Chan School students become volunteer workforce
Harvard health workers and those in Massachusetts struggling to deal with the influx of patients suffering from coronavirus are about to get some much-needed relief. Soon, hundreds of students from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) will begin assisting with phone calls and emails, part of the effort to identify and reach out to anyone who may have come into contact with someone infected with the novel coronavirus. The students will work with both Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) and the Academic Health Department Consortium, a collaboration among 10 different schools and universities in the state and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH). The HUHS work will focus directly on the Harvard community while the DPH collaborative will support the work of many of the state’s 351 local boards of health. About 20 students began volunteering last week, and about 200 more are expected to start this...