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Global Center for Health Security team travels to Puerto Rico
Written by Jeff Robb, UNMC Communications | Oct. 27, 2023 Original Article A team from the UNMC Global Center for Health Security (GCHS) traveled to Puerto Rico to work with Puerto Rico’s Medical Reserve Corps and continue development on UNMC’s ISTARI isolation tent...
UNMC officials take expertise to Uganda during Ebola outbreak
Julie Anderson | Nov. 11, 2022, Updated Dec. 20, 2022 | Omaha World-Herald Health experts from Nebraska recently traveled to Uganda to assist local health officials in dealing with a surge in Ebola cases. A team of three infectious diseases experts and an...
UNMC develops revolutionary patient care system
By John Keenan & Karen Burbach | Sept. 27, 2022 | UNMC Imagine caring for patients – even visiting hospitalized loved ones – without donning the personal protective equipment necessary for high-risk infectious diseases. UNMC’s Global Center for Health...
CDC Grant will Enhance Infection Prevention and Control
UNMC, in partnership with Nebraska Medicine, has been awarded a $9.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to enhance infection prevention and control (IPC) initiatives in small and rural health care facilities and advance the ability...
GCHS Explores Innovative Istari System
The Isolation System for Treatment and Agile Response for high-risk Infections (ISTARI) is a modular, disposable, airborne isolation patient care system that can strengthen the infection and prevention strategies used against the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, it was...