Dr. Jay Varma Receives Grant to Study COVID-19 Disease Surveillance | Newsroom

Dr. Jay Varma, a professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, has received a six-month, $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to assess how countries around the world have been monitoring and reporting COVID-19 infections and outcomes during the pandemic.

“The COVID-19 pandemic heightened awareness of the weaknesses of infectious disease surveillance systems worldwide,” said Dr. Varma, who…