Local Health Disctricts
Doctors performed nasal swab testing at the Fulton County Board of Health drive through and mobile COVID-19 testing sites.
To assist with the epidemiology surge capacity at the county level, Drs. Neel Gandhi and Sarita Shah, have been performing nasal swab testing at the Fulton County Board of Health drive through and mobile COVID-19 testing sites, along with mobile outreach sites. In addition to providing guidance and technical assistance on data analytics and visualizations on the County’s epidemiologic reports, Drs. Gandhi and Shah along with Dr. Allison Chamberlain, have recruited multiple students and staff from Rollins to assist with case investigations.
Highlights
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