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Ensuring Health Equity in Contact Tracing: A Webinar

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This webinar will explore how to promote health equity in contact tracing to mitigate the COVID-19. There is ample evidence that communities of color are experiencing higher rates of infection and mortality rates. Testing and contact tracing are important tools to use in heading off future outbreaks of COVID-19. It is critical that contact tracing efforts are appropriate to those communities experiencing greater burdens of COVID-19. Recruiting and building a new cadre of contact tracers should meet the immediate goal of addressing the pandemic, but attention could also be paid to building a public health infrastructure that supports health equity.

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A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and conduct a webinar exploring how to promote health equity in the implementation of contact tracing to mitigate the COVID-19. The planning committee will select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate discussions.

Potential topics will explore:
1. Contact tracing strategies that promote health equity implelmented by public health agencies in highly diverse counties
2. Contact tracing in highly-impacted impacted Native American communities and issues related to access to health care and support services, and tribal autonomy
3. Contact tracing challenges in the Latinx community including trust, residents without documentation, language, and potential solutions to mitigate these challenges
4. Experiences and lessons learned from contact tracing in the early HIV/AIDS epidemic that could be applied to the current COVID-19 pandemic
Other topics may include training of contact tracers and the importance of building capacity in communities of color hard hit by the COVID-19 virus.
A proceedings in brief of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

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