When the COVID pandemic started, it was imperative for communities to not only test for COVID-19, but also educate the public. And that is where health inequities needed to be addressed in underserved populations.
A team of investigators at Frontiers Clinical and Translational Science Institute partners, the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC), the University of Kansas Medical Center and Children’s Mercy Kansas City, joined over 100 other research projects to address the health inequities, which included structural racism, environmental inequalities, and systemic oppression, through community engaged research.
“Having a Little Faith: Overcoming Pandemic-Related Challenges to Designing and Implementing a COVID-19 Testing Trial in African American Churches” has been published in a special supplement focused on RADx-UP in the American Journal of Public Health…
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