The 2022 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service award honors Dr. Lauren Gardner, who leads the team that built the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 global tracking map (https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html). Established in January 2020, the map evolved into the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center by March 2020. The map and resource center website, which are supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, were critical resources for scientists, national and international policymakers, the press, and the public in the early months of the COVID pandemic, and they remain important and widely used resources to this day. In addition to providing comprehensive, reliable, and easily digestible data at a key time in the COVID pandemic, Dr. Gardner’s work provides a model of how researchers and public health agencies should collect, process, and disseminate data during future infectious disease outbreaks.
展开▼
