The City of Cambridge and its institutions including Harvard, MIT, and Cambridge Hospital have a long history of direct medical and scientific faculty and student exchanges as well as direct collaboration with Cuba, working together for many years on breakthrough treatments and medical approaches, such as the search for a vaccine for Dengue Fever and the development of treatments for drug resistant infections

How it started

Oct 5, 2020 · Proposed by Councillor Carlone, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillors McGovern and Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Oct 5, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted (unanimous · one absent)

Voted yes (8), unanimous

Dennis Carlone
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
E. Denise Simmons
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Absent (1)

Timothy J. Toomey

Roll call of Oct 5, 2020 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Oct 5, 2020

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2020-10-05). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.