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WHAT IS RAC CONNECT?
RAC CONNECT is the HIPAA compliant collaborative platform that is accessible through this module. The Vaccine Equity Survey is now available. Your survey results will be available on your RAC CONNECT dashboard to assist you in close to real time strategic decision-making. Here is a mock-up of a typical Vaccine Equity Results Dashboard. If you would like to deploy the Vaccine Equity Survey in your community please contact paige.sachwitz@efiia.
Generating New Ideas. Solving Big Problems
Next year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will analyze what North Carolinians and residents of a handful of other states flush down their toilets in an effort to detect the coronavirus.
With the help of government funding, North Carolina researchers launched a wastewater surveillance system this year to serve as a supplemental method of helping public officials detect and understand COVID-19 in their communities.
Those researchers are optimistic that the system will be equipped to detect other diseases in the future. North Carolina will be one of just eight states in January that funnels their wastewater data to the federal government to track the coronavirus.
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Seven New Gillings Innovation Labs Will Tackle COVID-19
July 6, 2020
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Exactly how does coronavirus spread in the air? What will get kids’ vaccinations back on track across the United States? How can public health practitioners work with church communities to spread accurate information about COVID-19?
These are just three of the questions being explored by UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health researchers and their collaborators who have been awarded funding through the special COVID-19 round of Gillings Innovation Laboratory awards (GILs).
The GILs are innovative research projects, interdisciplinary across the School and beyond, that strive to achieve breakthroughs in urgent public health issues. By definition, GILs are well-suited to accelerate understanding and solutions related to the COVID-19 pandemic — and all seven of the projects funded for 2020 do just that.
What we did
Word Tabernacle Church is one of seven New Gillings Innovation Labs (GILs) tackling COVID-19: The GILs are innovative research projects, interdisciplinary across the School and beyond, that strive to achieve breakthroughs in urgent public health issues.
Gillings School awardees include Lori Carter-Edwards, associate professor of public health leadership and adjunct associate professor of both health behavior and epidemiology. Carter-Edwards is working with colleagues at the Word Tabernacle Church, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), the N.C. Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, and UNC’s Department of Social Medicine to leverage rural, Black, faith-based social connections to spread critical COVID-19 information now and study the method’s effectiveness for use in future public pandemics.
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“In these spaces, churches and not-for-profits will learn how to effectively and efficiently advance their mission to ensure equity and equality in rural communities. Professional development and hands-on learning will also be provided for personnel, students, and practitioners interested in music composition, performance and production.” – Reverend Gailliard.
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Where is your community on its collaborative journey?
10% – Initiation of a New Resilient American Community Site
20% – Core Leadership Team in Place
30% – Core Leaders Complete Trainings
40% – Map and Logos on the County Dashboard
50% – Stakeholder Weekly Meetings Include WTC Data Review
60% – Work Groups Formed
70% – Contributing to the RAC WTC Electronic Newsletter
80% – First WTC Project Supported from this County
90% – Report on First WTC Project
100% – Excellence Implementing WTC Projects & Growing the Team
- Edgecombe County 10%
- Halifax County 10%
- Nash County 10%
- Northampton County 10%
- Wilson County 10%
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Take a look at the demographics and other conditions in the Zip codes with high numbers of COVID cases in the communities where Word Tabernacle Church is active.
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