COVID-19 School Surveillance
May 12, 2021 | covid-19, health equity
Center for HOPES Community Engagement Specialist Anne Trinh is co-author of an article in the new issue of Public Health Reports. In “COVID-19 Surveillance for Local Decision-Making: An Academic, School-District, and Public Health Collaboration,” Ms. Trinh, Center Affiliate Ayaz Hyder, and their multi-sectoral partners report how they collected, processed, analyzed, and visualized data to develop the COVID-19 Analytics and Targeted Surveillance System for Schools (CATS).
The authors report that piloting a surveillance system with diverse school districts facilitated scaling up the system to other districts and that leveraging existing relationships and identifying emerging needs were critical to rapid and sustainable collaboration. They also emphasize that valuing and utilizing diverse skill sets was key to rapid deployment of this innovative public health system during the pandemic.
Read more and access the article.