Team Up! Punahou School Podcast Team Up – Punahou School

Hawai‘i State Department of Health Director Bruce Anderson, from Punahou's Class of 1970, and State Deputy Epidemiologist Sarah Kemble of the Class of 1993, discuss how they're working to keep Hawai‘i safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they're handling their roles at such a critical time.

Punahou teachers and administrators discuss the shift to online learning, making innovative modifications in the classroom, dealing with contingencies and looking toward the future.

Podcast producers and alumni Allen Murabayashi ’90 and Kim-Hee Wong ’14 tell the story about the formation of the PunsUnited Fund amid COVID-19, and the need to provide financial assistance to affected students so they can return to Punahou for the next school year.

For this very special episode of the Punahou Team Up podcast, senior Noelle Nakaoka ’20 and alumna Kim-Hee Wong ’14 interviewed a dozen students to understand how their lives were abruptly changed because of coronavirus and the threat of COVID-19. Initial thoughts of disappointment and sadness are replaced by feelings of gratitude. The kids are alright!

Elizabeth Yee ’94 serves as Chief of Staff at The Rockefeller Foundation, which recently announced a plan to dramatically increase COVID-19 testing from 1 million to 30 million tests per week. If fully implemented, the initiative would be the largest public health testing program in American history – helping to get the country back on its feet. We spoke to Yee, who was featured in our winter 2020 issue of the Punahou Bulletin, about the initiative, as well as her own career path that led her to this new, high-profile role at the New York City-based foundation.

Dr. Daniel Cheng ’00 serves as a medical director of emergency medicine at Queen's Medical Center, and is helping to battle COVID-19 on the front lines. But he's also dedicated the past three years towards building the Queen's Care Coalition, an organization that serves the homeless population through a holistic approach that combines medical services with outreach like housing support.