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dc.contributor.authorBusse, Kyle R.
dc.contributor.authorLemon, Stephenie C
dc.contributor.authorComerford, Beth P.
dc.contributor.authorIslam, Nadia S.
dc.contributor.authorUlin, Brigette F.
dc.contributor.authorEriksen, Michael P.
dc.contributor.authorAmmerman, Alice S.
dc.date2022-08-11T08:08:11.000
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-23T15:45:31Z
dc.date.available2022-08-23T15:45:31Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-21
dc.date.submitted2022-02-02
dc.identifier.citation<p>Busse KR, Lemon SC, Comerford BP, Islam NS, Ulin BF, Eriksen MP, Ammerman AS. Prevention Research Centers and COVID-19: Models of a Community-Engaged Response to a Public Health Emergency. Public Health Rep. 2022 Jan 21:333549211059491. doi: 10.1177/00333549211059491. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35060805. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549211059491">Link to article on publisher's site</a></p>
dc.identifier.issn0033-3549 (Linking)
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/00333549211059491
dc.identifier.pmid35060805
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/27545
dc.description.abstractFor more than 30 years, the network of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded Prevention Research Centers (PRCs) has worked with local communities and partners to implement and evaluate public health interventions and policies for the prevention of disease and promotion of health. The COVID-19 pandemic tested the PRC network's ability to rapidly respond to multiple, simultaneous public health crises. On April 28, 2020, to assess the network's engagement with activities undertaken in response to the early phase of the pandemic, PRC network leadership distributed an online survey to the directors of 34 currently or formerly funded PRCs, asking them to report their PRCs' engagement with predetermined activities across 9 topical areas and provide case studies exemplifying that engagement. We received responses from 24 PRCs, all of which reported engagement with at least 1 of the 9 topical areas (mean, 5). The topical areas with which the greatest number of PRCs reported engagement were support of frontline agencies (21 of 24, 88%) and support of activities related to health care (21 of 24, 88%). The mean number of activities with which PRCs reported engagement was 11. The PRCs provided more than 90 case studies exemplifying their work. The results of the survey indicated that the PRCs mobilized their personnel and resources to support the COVID-19 response in less than 6 weeks. We posit that the speed of this response was due, in part, to the broad and diverse expertise of PRC personnel and long-standing partnerships between PRCs and the communities in which they work.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation<p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=35060805&dopt=Abstract">Link to Article in PubMed</a></p>
dc.relation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1177/00333549211059491
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectPrevention Research Centers
dc.subjectdisease prevention
dc.subjectemergency response
dc.subjecthealth promotion
dc.subjectCommunity-Based Learning
dc.subjectCommunity-Based Research
dc.subjectCommunity Health and Preventive Medicine
dc.subjectHealth Policy
dc.subjectInfectious Disease
dc.subjectPreventive Medicine
dc.subjectPublic Health Education and Promotion
dc.subjectVirus Diseases
dc.titlePrevention Research Centers and COVID-19: Models of a Community-Engaged Response to a Public Health Emergency
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.source.journaltitlePublic health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/covid19/346
dc.identifier.contextkey27945530
html.description.abstract<p>For more than 30 years, the network of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded Prevention Research Centers (PRCs) has worked with local communities and partners to implement and evaluate public health interventions and policies for the prevention of disease and promotion of health. The COVID-19 pandemic tested the PRC network's ability to rapidly respond to multiple, simultaneous public health crises. On April 28, 2020, to assess the network's engagement with activities undertaken in response to the early phase of the pandemic, PRC network leadership distributed an online survey to the directors of 34 currently or formerly funded PRCs, asking them to report their PRCs' engagement with predetermined activities across 9 topical areas and provide case studies exemplifying that engagement. We received responses from 24 PRCs, all of which reported engagement with at least 1 of the 9 topical areas (mean, 5). The topical areas with which the greatest number of PRCs reported engagement were support of frontline agencies (21 of 24, 88%) and support of activities related to health care (21 of 24, 88%). The mean number of activities with which PRCs reported engagement was 11. The PRCs provided more than 90 case studies exemplifying their work. The results of the survey indicated that the PRCs mobilized their personnel and resources to support the COVID-19 response in less than 6 weeks. We posit that the speed of this response was due, in part, to the broad and diverse expertise of PRC personnel and long-standing partnerships between PRCs and the communities in which they work.</p>
dc.identifier.submissionpathcovid19/346
dc.contributor.departmentDivision of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
dc.contributor.departmentPrevention Research Center
dc.source.pages333549211059491


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