
by Michael (Mike) Kraten, PhD, CPA, IRB Chair at Providence College
It's the news that no academic institution ever wants to hear. A life-threatening infection has struck a student on campus, and then a second student reports the same condition.
Recently, at Providence College in Rhode Island, two students contracted meningococcal infections and were rushed immediately to inpatient facilities. Working closely with the Rhode Island Department of Health (DOH), the College then managed to vaccinate over 3,000 at-risk undergraduate students in a single, brief, and intense outreach campaign with extensive information and medical applications.
That caught the attention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where epidemiologists and public health [...] Read more