Arnold School faculty, staff, students and alumni are serving key roles in the fight against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Collaborative efforts against this public health crisis include leading original research projects, providing expert input, and educating the public.
Health Services Policy and Management Distinguished Professors Emerita Janice Probst and Saundra Glover (also director/deputy director emerita for the Rural and Minority Health Research Center) talk to New York Magazine about the next COVID 19 obstacle: vaccine deserts.
Distinguished Professor Emerita Saundra Glover talks to ABC News4 about the virtual meeting for the SC minority population that she led with assistant state epidemiologist Jane Kelly to debunk vaccine myths.
Janice Probst, Distinguished Professor Emerita of HSPM and director emerita of the Rural and Minority Health Research Center, explains to the Washington Post how the lack of health services and transportation impede access to the COVID-19 vaccine in communities of color.
The Rural Monitor interviews Arnold School alumnus Graham Adams about how the SC Office of Rural Health is responding to COVID-19 and addressing social determinants of health.
Ph.D. in Epidemiology student Gabriel Benavidez is collaborating with three other members from his cohort to lead a Health Policy Research Scholars COVID and Anti-Racism Pilot Project with support from a $35K grant from the program.
Melissa Nolan, assistant professor of epidemiology, and Virginie Daguise, director of DHEC's Bureau of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, are launching a new representative testing strategy to prospectively assess and monitor COVID-19 within South Carolina.
Bridget Armstrong, assistant professor of exercise science, talks to the Washington Post about the ways she has adapted her research on children and physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monique Brown and Sharon Weissman (School of Medicine) have published a paper on the impact of COVID-19 on older adults living with HIV, describing HIV care and psychosocial effects for this group during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Aging Brain Cohort (ABC), one of eight high-impact projects established by UofSC’s Excellence Initiative in 2019, has launched a study to learn more about the negative cognitive and neurological effects of COVID-19.
Led by Big Data Health Science Center co-principal investigators Xiaoming Li and Bankole Olatosi, this two-year NIH grant will allow the team to develop a database system via REDCap and a mobile application for collating surveillance, clinical, multi-omics and geospatial data on both COVID-19 patients and health workers in SC.
UofSC talks to epidemiology assistant professor Monique Brown, who is also a researcher with the Rural and Minority Health Research Center and the SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality, about how COVID-19 highlights underlying racial health disparities.
UofSC features the research of environmental health sciences associate professor Sean Norman, who is partnering with CDC and SC DHEC to detect COVID-19 in 11 locations.
The COVID-19 pandemic has added a new layer to epidemiology professor Angela Liese’s SEARCH Food Security Study: providing much-needed support and resources to individuals with diabetes.
Director Julie Smithwick couldn’t have known about the impending COVID-19 pandemic that would ravage the world just one year later, but the Community Health Worker Institute launched just in time to prepare its first cohort of community health workers for a greater challenge than anyone foresaw.
Clinical associate professor of health services policy and management Bankole Olatosi answers UofSC questions about how hospitals are struggling financially because of strains brought on by the pandemic.
Swann Arp Adams researches disparities in cancer prevention and screening. Here, she provides insight into how the COVID-19 pandemic might affect current or recovering cancer patients and their families.
In the new world of distance learning, faculty are getting a crash course in online education — and the learning curve can be steep. But it’s not insurmountable, says Lucy Ingram, assistant dean for academic affairs and online education.