LHD Project

Four students awarded JPHMP’s 2022 Students Who Rocked Public Health

Rollins Epidemiology Fellow, Victoria Roy, and Rollins School of Public Health students, Marija Pritchard, Mehar Anand, and Ellisen Herndon, received the 2022 Students Who Rocked Public Health Award

Implementation of close contact elicitation at the time of COVID-19 testing—Atlanta, GA, October–November 2020

Persons under investigation (PUIs) who tested positive were less likely to provide any contacts. This difference may be related to a sense of stigma among people testing positive for having engaged in

Estimating the Unknown: Greater Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Burden After Accounting for Missing Race and Ethnicity Data

Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous persons in the United States have an increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and death from COVID-19, due to persistent social inequities. However, the magnitude of the

MMWR: Proactive COVID-19 Testing to Prevent Further Infection

Emory University researchers, in collaboration with Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH), have found that testing for COVID-19 in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) before cases were known to occur

Emory EPI Responds: Students at the Fulton County Board of Health

The Confounder Team spoke with three of the Emory EPI students working with the Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH) COVID response efforts. These students are directly engaged in front line