Part 1: The Early Days_ A Look Back on Carle Illinois' Response to COVID-19

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As the pandemic was bearing down on the world, experts at the University of Illinois realized combatting it was going to be a very big challenge. Leadership at UIUC and Carle Illinois College of Medicine had one goal in mind: Figure out how we open and stay open in the Fall. “Even as we were sending the students home, we were already planning, how do we bring them back?” Martin Burke, Carle Illinois associate dean for research explains.

The take-off point was a phone call Burke received from Provost Andreas Cangellaris in early April 2020. “It was clear in the beginning we needed scalable testing with a comprehensive framework.” “The key driver is from a passionate understanding and commitment that our mission as a land grant institution is to serve the public good,” Martin Burke, Carle Illinois associate dean for research explains.

A silver-lining was discovering how prepared Carle Illinois was for the pandemic and the need for innovation that would follow. Carle Illinois had been working for years to prepare for this moment in history – and it was able to fly. “Carle Illinois catalyzed an extraordinary cross-disciplinary that would bring together,” Burke said. The nodes existed, and because of this unmatched ecosystem, Carle Illinois’ faculty was able to respond at this critical moment in the history of health.

This is Part 1 of the series “A Look Back on Carle Illinois' Response to COVID-19.”

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Part 1: The Early Days_ A Look Back on Carle Illinois' Response to COVID-19

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