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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Tabia Henry Akintobi, R. Barrett, L. Hoffman, S. Scott, K. Davis, T. Jones, N. De Veauuse Brown, M. Fraire, R. Fraire, J. Garner, A. Gruner, J. Hill, R. Meckel, C. Obi, P. Omunga, Q. Parham, T. Rice, O. Samples, T. Terrill
Summary: Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions have the potential to establish community-campus research partnerships due to their history of service and similarities to marginalized communities. The Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center collaborates with these institutions and community organizations to implement Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) principles and address public health priorities. A Participatory Evaluation framework was used to assess the network's effectiveness and identify areas for improvement in community-academic partnerships.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
David A. A. Moskowitz, Abigail Silva, Yvette Castaneda, Samuel L. L. Battalio, Madison L. L. Hartstein, Anne Marie Murphy, Sithembinkosi Ndebele, Matthew Switalski, Sarah Lomahan, Leilani Lacson, Abigail Plum, Emma Canty, Anna Sandoval, Paris Thomas, Marina De Pablo, Bonnie Spring, Molly Martin
Summary: This study aimed to determine the local programmatic needs of community organizations delivering COVID-19 interventions in Chicago. The findings showed that community organizations reached low-vaccine confidence populations using trusted messengers, but resources are needed to sustain these strategies. Leveraging the Chicagoland CEAL Program to support interorganizational coordination, training programs, and evaluation expertise may strengthen COVID-19 prevention.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Maria Cielito Robles, Casey L. Corches, Morgan Bradford, Tia S. Rice, Devraj Sukul, Mellanie Springer, Sarah Bailey, Alina Oliver, Lesli E. Skolarus
Summary: Research shows that community members' attitudes and perceived behavioral control to seek emergent cardiovascular care were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Community-informed, health behavior theory-based public health messaging may help decrease prehospital delay.
JOURNAL OF STROKE & CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sabin Nsanzimana, Angeli Rawat, Lindsay A. Wilson, Jamie Forrest, Gilmar Reis, Sreeram Ramagopalan, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Francine Ntoumi, Alimuddin Zumla, Papa Salif Sow, Jean B. Nachega, Agnes Binagwaho, Mark Dybul, Edward J. Mills
Summary: COVID-19 highlights the importance of reimagining partnerships and redefining best practices for public health and research capacity in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). The pandemic has shown that innovations from the Global South can fill gaps and offer solutions globally. Examples from Rwanda, South Africa, and Senegal provide valuable lessons for capacity building.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Victoria Hall Moran, Marena Ceballos-Rasgado, Sadia Fatima, Usman Mahboob, Salman Ahmad, Michael McKeown, Mukhtiar Zaman
Summary: This study aimed to co-design and implement a culturally appropriate COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement strategy with a resource-poor rural community in Northwest Pakistan. The participatory approach allowed understanding of the challenges faced by the community and enabled the community to find sustainable solutions. The findings are relevant to others working in diverse cultural settings in similar crises events regardless of particular cultural variations.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Joshua M. Sharfstein, Nicole Lurie
Summary: The task of preparedness is closely linked to the ongoing efforts in improving population health and ensuring health equity.
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Pediatrics
Jennifer L. Goldman, Ibukunoluwa C. Kalu, Jennifer E. Schuster, Tyler Erickson, Dana Keener Mast, Kanecia Zimmerman, Daniel K. Benjamin, Luther G. Kalb, Christina Gurnett, Jason G. Newland, Michael Sherby, Maya Godambe, Nidhi Shinde, Treymayne Watterson, Tyler Walsh, John Foxe, Martin Zand, Stephen Dewhurst, Ryan Coller, Gregory P. DeMuri, Shannon Archuleta, Linda K. Ko, Moira Inkelas, Vladimir Manuel, Rebecca Lee, Hyunsung Oh, Vel Murugan, Joanna Kramer, May Okihiro, Lisa Gwynn, Elizabeth Pulgaron, Russell McCulloh, Jana Broadhurst, Corinne McDaniels-Davidson, Susan Kiene, Eyal Oren, Yelena Wu, David W. Wetter, Tammy Stump, M. Alan Brookhart, Alex Fist, Emily Haroz
Summary: The US government invested resources in COVID-19 testing for students' safe return to school, but the uptake and access for vulnerable children and those with medical complexities were unclear. The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Underserved Populations program aimed to implement and evaluate COVID-19 testing in underserved populations, partnering with schools and identifying key implementation strategies through surveys. School-academic partnerships proved effective in providing COVID-19 testing for vulnerable children, but further development of best practices for in-school infectious disease testing is needed.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Mariusz Goniewicz, Anna Wloszczak-Szubzda, Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani, Krzysztof Goniewicz
Summary: This study surveyed 852 medical professionals across four provinces in Poland to understand their expectations and well-being implications in the workplace. The results showed that the majority of participants believed their employers could enhance safety measures and expressed concerns regarding personal protective equipment, debriefing sessions, building entrances and exits, and psychological support. The study also found significant differences in avoidance and overall post-traumatic stress disorder scores between individuals who had received epidemic safety procedure training and those who had not.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Shannon Sanchez-Youngman, Blake Boursaw, John Oetzel, Sara Kastellic, Carlos Devia, Maia Scarpetta, Lorenda Belone, Nina Wallerstein
Summary: This study fills the research gap on effective methods of structural governance in CBPR partnerships by presenting a conceptual model and constructing a multidimensional measure of structural governance. The research findings show that structural governance is positively associated with perceptions of increased community involvement in research and collective empowerment.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mark L. Wieland, Gladys B. Asiedu, Jane W. Njeru, Jennifer A. Weis, Kiley Lantz, Adeline Abbenyi, Luz Molina, Yahye Ahmed, Ahmed Osman, Miriam Goodson, Gloria Torres-Herbeck, Omar Nur, Graciela Porraz Capetillo, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Irene G. Sia
Summary: This study evaluated an intervention created by a community-academic partnership to address health inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention utilized a community-engaged bidirectional pandemic crisis and emergency risk communication (CERC) framework with immigrant and refugee populations. The results showed that the intervention reached a large number of people, was implemented as intended, and had high perceived efficacy. The frequent communication between community and academic partners facilitated a rapid response to concerns and led to systems and policy changes to meet the needs of immigrant and refugee populations.
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS
(2022)
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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Marie Lourdes Charles, Gretha Fievre
Summary: The program aimed to educate community leaders on training community members to respond to disasters. Through workshops covering emergency preparedness, water-borne diseases, and post-traumatic stress, the program successfully enhanced the disaster response capacity of the community residents.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2021)
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Health Policy & Services
Marla B. Hall, Nancy L. Winterbauer, Courtney Klinger, Mary Tucker-McLaughlin, Ann Rafferty, Gwendolyn Greene, Savannah Dodson
Summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the West Greenville Health Council utilized an organizational partnership network to engage in health communication and PPE distribution activities in African American communities in Eastern North Carolina. They reached a total of 30,310 community members, held 44 outreach events, and distributed over 8000 PPE kits. The activation of the network greatly expanded the reach of the WGHC in responding to the public health crisis.
JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Suerie Moon, Jana Armstrong, Brian Hutler, Ross Upshur, Rachel Katz, Caesar Atuire, Anant Bhan, Ezekiel Emanuel, Ruth Faden, Prakash Ghimire, Dirceu Greco, Calvin W. L. Ho, Sonali Kochhar, G. Owen Schaefer, Ehsan Shamsi-Gooshki, Jerome Amir Singh, Maxwell J. Smith, Jonathan Wolff
Summary: The Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) is a multi-stakeholder initiative aiming to achieve equitable access to COVID-19 health technologies. However, its governance faces challenges in terms of unclear organizational roles, lack of a clearly defined decision making body, and the indiscernible role of governments.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Fang Shi, Hao Li, Rui Liu, Yan Liu, Xiaoxue Liu, Haoyu Wen, Chuanhua Yu
Summary: This study provides a mini review of the practice of mobile cabin hospitals in China, offering practical recommendations for site selection, conversion, and management. It serves as a reference for other countries dealing with the pressure of the pandemic on healthcare systems.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Omer A. Awan, Stephen Chan, Pablo Ros
Summary: The roundtable meeting focused on addressing the challenges faced by radiology departments after the COVID-19 pandemic, discussing ways to sustain clinical productivity, innovation, and well-being, as well as how industry could contribute to these efforts.
ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY
(2021)
