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- RADx-UP Community Collaboration Grant brings COVID-19 testing, vaccination to Mississippi Delta communities September 5, 2023Associated RADx-UP Project: CDCC Community Collaboration Grant Principal investigator: Erin Shirley Orey Population focus: Communities in the Mississippi Delta Community partner: Drs. Aaron & Ollye Shirley Foundation The Mississippi Delta, an agricultural region along the Mississippi River, is an underserved area in rural Mississippi with very few physical health centers. Many residents also don’t have health insurance or are underinsured, ...Read more
- Milestone achieved with first collaborative manuscript to use national RADx-UP dataset August 29, 2023Leer en español The first manuscript to form conclusions from a nationwide dataset provided by the RADx-UP consortium has been published in the July 2023 issue of the journal Preventive Medicine Reports. The ad-hoc research team from across the RADx-UP consortium analyzed aggregated RADx-UP data that included 3,308 Hispanic adults from 18 different RADx-UP projects from 18 ...Read more
- Black/African American communities reveal challenges to COVID-19 testing in Colorado August 17, 2023In Colorado, and across the United States, communities face inequitable social, ethical, and behavioral barriers to accessing reliable COVID-19 testing. The Research, Engagement, and Action on COVID-19 Health Outcomes via Testing (REACH-OUT) project aimed to better understand the barriers to testing as well as the factors that increase community risk of COVID-19. They hoped to ultimately ...Read more
- Translational science promotes COVID-19 testing in San Diego schools August 10, 2023In an effort to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus and encourage testing in schools, the Safer at School Early Alert (SASEA) project used their expertise in translational science and technology to regularly test commonly exposed areas in educational facilities. The SASEA project team used technology to rapidly test the transmission of COVID-19 through ...Read more
- Ciencia Colaborativa ABC y RADx-UP publican las lecciones aprendidas acerca dela seguridad de los niños en la escuela durante la pandemia July 26, 2023Read in English Ciencia Colaborativa ABC y RADx-UP han publicado un suplemento especial para la revista de investigación Pediatrics centrado en las lecciones aprendidas mientras se navega por el entorno escolar de K-12 durante la pandemia. El suplemento de publicación, “Navegando por una pandemia en el entorno de K-12, parte 2: pruebas y vacunas contra el COVID-19,” ...Read more
- Engaging Black/African Americans Working Group publishes new resource guide to support patients and providers July 25, 2023Advocating for Racial Equity in the US Healthcare System is a comprehensive guide developed to increase understanding, strengthen patient-provider relationships, and support shared decision-making. The guide seeks to provide education and resources to facilitate patient and provider engagement and address barriers contributing to poorer health outcomes among underserved communities. After identifying the need for more resources to ...Read more
- Community partnerships found to have strengthened public health preparedness and capacity July 25, 2023A new qualitative study from the RADx-UP Tracking and Evaluation Team (T&E) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill confirms that community partnerships in research provide important value to increasing preparedness in communities, especially in the context of public health emergencies. Community-academic partnerships are a foundational component of the RADx-UP program, in which each ...Read more