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Consensus Guidance on Face Coverings

By Atul Grover, MD, PhD, Executive Director, AAMC Research and Action Institute; Ross McKinney Jr., MD, Chief Scientific Officer, AAMC; Sheila Burke, MPA, RN, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, Dean of the School of Public Health, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University; and Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Dean of Brown Institute for Translational Sciences, Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Feb. 7, 2022

This consensus document describes how the latest evidence requires the public to remain active participants in the effort to decrease the spread of COVID-19.

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Cite this source: Grover A, McKinney R Jr, Burke S, Jha A, Ranney LM. Consensus Guidance on Face Coverings. Washington, DC: AAMC; 2022. https://doi.org/10.15766/rai_m3tutd14

The AAMC also thanks the following individuals for helping to develop this document:

Laura Pincus, MHA, Manager, Strategy and Planning, AAMC Research and Action Institute
Amanda Field, PhD, former Senior Science Policy Specialist, AAMC

Headshot of Atul Grover.
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, Executive Director, AAMC Research and Action Institute

Atul Grover, MD, PhD, leads the AAMC Research and Action Institute to convene experts to examine issues affecting American health care.

Headshot of Ross McKinney
Ross McKinney Jr., MD, Chief Scientific Officer, AAMC
Ross McKinney Jr., MD, leads the AAMC programs that support medical research and the training of physician-scientists in academic medicine.
Sheila Burke, MPA, RN, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Sheila Burke, MPA, RN is an adjunct lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, Dean of the School of Public Health, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University
Ashish Jha, MD, MPH is the Dean of the School of Public Health, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University.
Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Dean of Brown Institute for Translational Sciences, Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH was previously an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown and is currently the Dean of Yale School of Public Health.