COVID-19 hit us like a brick. We are scientists, but the losses cannot be measured. As people, as teachers, as students, and as agents in the field, we are struggling. In large part, the GET Lab was formed to help us to combat that struggle. We think critically about medicine because that is a profession and a passion for all of us. The ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its effect on all aspects of life but especially on America’s engagement with medicine and public health, have brought us together. We will use the GET Lab to write, discuss, and collaborate, with no hard boundaries as to topics. By default, there is no aspect of living that does not interact with health.
The Governing Board of the GET Lab has identified the following as goals of the lab:
- To generate and support the generation of research by GETLab members and affiliates.
- To identify opportunities to publish or present on work either for the GETLab as a group or for individual members.
- To identify opportunities for grants or contracts appropriate to the skillsets of the GET as a group or individual members.
- To support and promote the work of marginalized academics and academics outside of the tenure system.
- To ensure that all work, be it in an academic or applied field, original work or commentary/interpretation, reflects the following:
- Work will be transparent and reflexive.
- Information, either created or learned, should be shared freely.
- Members of the GET will take a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach to shared projects.
- Members of the GET are committed to public good and building and aiding communities with their shared projects.