UC Irvine partners with health officials to teach community members how to conduct contact tracing in the neighborhoods where they live and work.
An important line of defense against the coronavirus lies in contact tracing, tracking the steps of an infected individual and reaching out to others who may have been exposed with advice on testing, self-quarantine and available resources.
In low-income areas and communities of color such as Santa Ana and Anaheim — where rates of infection are 20 times higher than the countywide average — the challenges of contact tracing can also be exponentially higher.The same barriers that prevent residents from accessing health information and services can also make it more difficult for tracers to connect with contacts who may be leery of providing information on their whereabouts and associations to a government agency.
“Nothing will stop this pandemic better than an informed and resourced and unified community,” said UCI Dean of Public Health Bernadette Boden-Albala during introductory remarks. “We want to give participants, all of you, an opportunity to see yourselves as part of the larger community effort and to clarify your unique purpose within that effort.
Now in the third week of the program, participants have been engaging in about eight hours each week of synchronous interactive group sessions as well as individual study that tests them on key principles before moving to the next module.Daniel Parker, a UCI assistant professor of public health who helped design the curriculum, said the workshop begins with a discussion on health equity and how and why certain health disparities exist.
“The best approach to this was to educate people from the community and give them the tools to do this,” he said of the workshop.“These communities may be worried about government officials coming in and surveying,” he continued. “[But] if you’re from a place, a neighborhood, you already have something in common with the people you’re talking to and it’s easier for them to be more open to you.”
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