Shreya Sridhar and Jillian Kelley won first place at the Health and Human Sciences Research Poster Symposium last month for their poster on COVID-19 testing for people experiencing homelessness.
Becca Ziolkowski will be at the American Public Health Association conference on November 7th presenting preliminary findings on our RADxUP study, Community Health Worker Led COVID-19 Education and Rapid Antigen Testing for People Experiencing Homelessness
We conducted a community-based participatory research study examining the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people experiencing homelessness in Tippecanoe, Indiana. Read about the study and our findings in BMC Public Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11687-8
Read our take on the troubling claims made in the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH)’s recent report on efforts to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people, and our call for accountability. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306768
Our project, “Community Health Worker Led COVID-19 Education and Rapid Antigen Testing for People Experiencing Homelessness” has been selected for funding under the NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics for Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) Rapid Research Pilot Program grant.
Homelessness during COVID-19: Challenges, Responses, and Lessons Learned from Homeless Service Providers in Tippecanoe County, Indiana https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-583647/v1
Purdue Public Health study focuses on COVID-19’s effect on area homeless https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/news/2021/04/purdue-public-health-study-focuses-on-covid-19s-effect-on-area-homeless/