Project dates: September 2020 - July 2024
Principal Investigator: Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent
This community-collaborative research study will implement a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a Nurse-Community Health Worker-Family Partnership intervention in promoting COVID-19 testing uptake, adoption of COVID control measures, and mutual aid capacity at the household level in a high-poverty, underserved and vulnerable community disproportionately affected by COVID-19 – Mott Haven, the South Bronx, New York City.
The study will offer in-home COVID-19 testing and influenza vaccination, which will be compared to a treatment-as-usual control group that can access testing and flu vaccination nearby. The findings will provide an evidence-base for current and future programming related to COVID-19 mitigation in underserved and socially vulnerable communities.
Abstract on NIH RePORTERApplication of a heuristic framework for multilevel interventions to eliminate the impact of unjust social processes and other harmful social determinants of health
Prevention Science [Epub 2024 Apr 12]. doi: 10.1007/s11121-024-01658-x.
Guilamo-Ramos V, Thimm-Kaiser M, Benzekri A, Hidalgo A, Lanier Y, Tlou S, de Lourdes Rosas Lopez M, Soletti AB, Hagan H (2021).
Nurses at the frontline of public health emergency preparedness and response: Lessons learned from the HIV/AIDS pandemic and emerging infectious disease outbreaks
Lancet Infectious Diseases, 21 (10), e326-e333. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30983-X. PMCID: PMC7972309.