Contact Tracing in Massachusetts & the Role of Hospitals
Dr. Emily Wroe, Partners In Health’s Director of Implementation and Design with the Massachusetts Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC), will present the state’s endeavor to implement contact tracing to manage the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Wroe will be joined by Kelly Driscoll of the COVID Command Center to discuss how the program interfaces with local Boards of Health and other command center activities. Learn more about how hospitals and health systems can play a role in the contact tracing initiative.
FACULTY:
Emily Wroe, M.D., MPH, Partners In Health’s Director of Implementation and Design with the Massachusetts Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC)
Emily Wroe, M.D., is Partners In Health’s (PIH) Director of Implementation and Design with the Massachusetts Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC); the Associate Director of Policy and Implementation, NCD Synergies; and an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Wroe received her BA from Dartmouth College in 2003, her MD from Harvard Medical School in 2010, and her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in 2015. Her early global health work was with PIH in Rwanda doing clinical work, research on adherence to HIV medications, and assisting with operational planning for a new district hospital. She then completed the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity (GHE) and Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. As a resident, she worked in Malawi to expand a program on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and improve TB screening initiatives. Dr. Wroe also served as the GHE residency’s first chief resident. Following the completion of her residency in 2014, Dr. Wroe moved to Malawi as PIH’s Chief Medical Officer. In this role she works closely with the Ministry of Health to strengthen healthcare delivery in the rural district of Neno and support medical education and research. In her first few years in Neno, she led the team to redesign the HIV care delivery platform into an integrated approach to include NCDs, launched new community screening programs, and spearheaded a stepped-wedge study of a polyvalent community health worker program. Her academic interests center on the implementation and evaluation of innovative health delivery systems, specifically for chronic disease. She is currently co-chairing Malawi’s National NCDs & Injuries of Poverty Commission and is working with NCD Synergies as the Associate Director of Policy & Implementation, to expand regional NCD efforts in southern Africa.
Kelly Driscoll, Lead, Community Tracing Collaborative, Liaison to Local Boards of Health
Kelly Driscoll is the lead for the Contact Tracing Collaborative and the liaison to Local Boards of Health in the Baker/Polito COVID-19 Command Center. During her time in the Command Center she is on temporary leave from Partners HealthCare where she is Director of Government Payer Policy. Prior to joining Partners, she served as CFO in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Date: Thursday, May 14, 2020
Time: 12:30pm-1:00pm EST
Location: WEBINAR (Dial in info will be sent on Thursday AM)
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