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Emory Global Health Institute launches contest for children’s book to explain COVID-19 Jeff Koplan, vice president for global health at Emory, was inspired to launch a children’s book contest by the questions his three grandchildren, ages 5-11, have been asking him about the pandemic. While “social distancing,” “antibody tests,” “herd immunity” and “contact tracing” are common terms to public health and global health professionals, the general public has had a crash course in this new language thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the learning curve is steep for most adults, it is no doubt even more confusing for children. Recognizing this, the Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI) has launched a COVID-19 children’s ebook competition to help address some of the questions that children may have about the pandemic and the behavior changes that have come with it. “In keeping with EGHI’s track record of marrying global health with other disciplines, including the arts, we thought spo...

Calling for innovation related to coronavirus: data, diagnostics, tests, tele-health, or other solutions. Numerous Health Transformers in the StartUp Health community are working tirelessly on COVID-19 solutions that may be able to save lives in this and future outbreaks. Much more innovation is needed, which is why StartUp Health is looking to invest in innovators from around the world working on direct or indirect solutions for mitigating, managing, or treating coronavirus or future pandemics. StartUp Health is launching an open call for innovation as part of our Cure Disease Moonshot and putting the full support of the StartUp Health platform and network behind bringing your innovations to the world. Whether you have technologies that may help speed up the R&D process for finding treatments or you have solutions that can help with diagnostics, home care, hygiene or telemedicine, we want to meet you. This is a broad call for innovations that can aid the public, pati...