The Harvard Gazette: Study holds warning on pandemic drinking

January 7, 2022

Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital scientist led a study (published in Hepatology) that estimated that a one-year increase in alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic will result in 8,000 additional deaths from...

Computerized Map Predicts Next COVID-19 Outbreak

April 13, 2021

Predicting whether an outbreak is likely to happen is now possible with the COVID-19 Outbreak Detection Tool, a map that shows the coming hotspots for the disease, if accurate data is available. VOA’s Elizabeth Lee interviewed Turgay Ayer and Jagpreet Chhatwal.

More details available here: https://www.voanews.com/episode/computerized-map-predicts-next-covid-19-outbreak-4656696

One in 50 Americans Has COVID in Some Areas—Before New Variants Have Taken Hold

January 8, 2021

Newsweek asked experts in infectious disease, epidemiology and modeling whether the U.S. is or would soon be at the point where one in 50 people was infected with COVID, and whether the new U.K. variant would be to blame.

Asked whether he expected to see U.S. cases spike as fast...

Colleges need to look beyond stopping parties to safely reopen in spring 2021

October 27, 2020

Jagpreet Chhatwal, Trisha Dwivedi, and Benjamin Linas wrote first opinion article in STAT. Below are excerpts from this piece.

As colleges and universities reopened in the fall of 2020, many emerged as hot spots of Covid-19 transmission. The narrative that has...

Mass. General Hospital Builds COVID-19 Simulator To Help Predict Impact of Policy Decisions

April 30, 2020

Gov. Charlie Baker says this week he will begin discussing when non-essential businesses may begin reopening across the state. In his press conference on Saturday, Baker said rules for reopening need to be put in place, and that Massachusetts needs to see a reduction of infection and hospitalizations over a significant period of time.

To help with the state's decision regarding when and how to take action, researchers at...

New England Coronavirus Deaths Would Spike If Restrictions Were Lifted, Simulator Shows

April 28, 2020

NBC Boston discussed the findings of COVID-19 Simulator with Jagpreet Chhatwal.

New England would see a spike in deaths from the novel coronavirus if social distancing measures currently in place were lifted, a new online modeling tool...

US News: Opioid death toll could top 700,000 over a decade

February 10, 2019

TACKLING PRESCRIPTION drug abuse will hardly make a dent in America's ongoing opioid crisis in the coming years, a new study suggests.

"People who start using prescription opioids, at some point, may transition to the next stage, (and) as the supply-side shifts happen, we see increased availability of illicit opioids," says Jagpreet Chhatwal, an assistant professor at ...

Los Angeles Times: Even in best-case scenario, opioid overdose deaths will keep rising until 2022

February 9, 2019

A new projection of opioid overdose death rates suggests that even if there is steady progress in reducing prescription narcotic abuse across the country, the number of fatal overdoses — which reached 47,600 in 2017 — will rise sharply in the coming years.

No matter how you slice it, the nation’s opioid...

Hep C Calculator launched at the World Hepatitis Summit in São Paulo, Brazil

November 1, 2017

Dr. Chhatwal officially launched the Hep C Calculator -- interactive online tool for global cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C treatment -- at the World Hepatitis Summit in São Paulo. Read more about Hep C Calculator launched at the World Hepatitis Summit in São Paulo, Brazil

Los Angeles Times: How the anal cancer epidemic in gay and bisexual HIV-positive men can be prevented

October 6, 2017

Our modeling study published in Cancer journal showed how the anal cancer epidemic in gay and bisexual HIV-positive men can be prevented using HPV vaccination. Below are excerpts from the...

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