Mingqi Song

Mingqi Song is an intern at the Population Council, and she holds an MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris watches as President Joe Biden signs executive orders on his racial equity agenda at the White House in Washington, DC on January 26, 2021.
Governance

Tackling the U.S. Coronavirus Data Catastrophe

by Thoai Ngo , Charlotte Brasseux, Saleh Abbas, Mingqi Song

Recommendations for the Biden-Harris COVID-19 response national strategy

They are informally honored—but are they officially counted? Activists stand at sunrise to memorialize victims of the coronavirus, near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on August 27, 2020. The photo shows the monument in the thin morning lite with a silhouette line of people standing in the foreground. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Governance

Two Hundred Thousand and (Not) Counting

by Thoai Ngo , Charlotte Brasseux, Mingqi Song

The U.S. failure to collect social and community data hampers efforts to control COVID-19 and to address health inequity