A team of investigators from UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a two-year implementation science study to scale up COVID-19 testing in North Carolina.
“We want to improve access to testing for underserved rural and urban communities being missed by current testing approaches, but who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic,” says Michael Herce, MD, MPH, MSc, a co-principal investigator along with David Wohl, MD. “We’ll also generate new insights into a promising community-based implementation strategy that can be leveraged to enhance the ongoing response to this pandemic, including the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines once they are available.”
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