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Dr. Mugur Geana (CEHCUP) and Dr. Megha Ramaswamy (KUMC) received a $2.5 million grant from the NIH to further develop and test an online education program to promote COVID-19 testing and vaccination to women leaving jails. The project will also help research how to adapt this easily to deploy, scalable, and evidence-based online intervention, developed at CEHCUP, to reach other underserved populations. More information here:

Boosting tests, vaccines for women post-incarceration KU researchers land NIH grant to increase testing, vaccine knowledge for women leaving jail

From everyone at CEHCUP we wish you all a safe and merry holiday season, and a new year filled with hope, health and happiness!

To all our members, collaborating students and faculty, to those that have participated in our research in 2020, we thank you for your support!
We wish for the coming new year to bring you good health, hope and happiness. Happy New Year!

Many thanks to all who participated and shared our survey. We have succesfully completed the last phase of our research on knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and sources of information about COVID-19. The six months study aims at exploing how these changed as we progressed from an initial acceleration phase to today's "normality." In the coming weeks we will post here some of our findings, as we conduct our analysis.

This was a very challenging year for most of us. The more we know and understand about the multiple social and human impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the better we are prepared to recover and resume our normal lives. Please take 15 minutes to complete our phase 3 survey on COVID-19 attitudes, beliefs and information sources. This is an ANONYMOUS survey, no personal data is collected. Your answers are very valuable and important to us, and we respect all your attitudes and beliefs. There are no right or wrong answers. This is a research project with no political affiliation and it is not funded externally.
Thank you for your support of this research project!

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The findings from the first part of our study have been published in the Kansas Journal of Medicine. The university is highlighting the center's research in today's edition of KU News: https://today.ku.edu/2020/06/25/study-gauges-how-kansans-get-information-covid-19-which-they-trust-how-they-assess-risk
This research would have not been possible without the support of all those who volunteered to participate in this study. We thank you!

Kansas, COVID-19 and sources of information A KU study gauged where Kansans get information about COVID-19 and which sources they trust.

Many, many thanks to all who have taken the time to answer our survey about COVID-19. Your participation has provided essential data towards our understanding of peoples’ attitudes about COVID-19, associated behaviors, and salient sources of information about the pandemic. We will come back with updates on our findings shortly.

Thank you for reading this post. We are a research center at the University of Kansas. We kindly ask you to take ten minutes to complete this survey and to let us know your thoughts about perceived risk factors, attitudes, and information sources related to COVID-19. We value and welcome any opinions and all points of view. Recorded information is anonymous, no personal data is collected. We do not ask about your name, political views, employment status. The survey is conducted outside of Facebook, but we are using social media to reach a large and diverse audience.
Survey link: https://bit.ly/3e21156
We appreciate your support!
Thank you!

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We are still trying to understand the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our lives. Where we get our information, what we know, and how we perceive risk are important factors driving the recovery. We kindly ask you to share with us what you think about these. Please take 10-15 minutes to complete the following survey. Data collection is anonymous - we do not record any information that could identify you. We aim to reach 1000 participants in 96 hours, so please share this post or the survey link with your social media networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.), or via email.
Your opinions are significant to us and will help CEHCUP researchers better understand overall experiences and behaviors related to this pandemic.
Survey link: https://bit.ly/3e21156
We appreciate your support!
Thank you!

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THANK YOU!
To all those that have completed and shared our survey!
Your participation and the valuable data that it generates is what makes our research relevant. We will publish here an overview of our findings as soon as the data is analyzed.

In addition to its own projects, such as this one on COVID-19, CEHCUP works with public health and communication researchers to provide expertise and contribute to the development of strategic campaigns, new media approaches and tailored interventions. Researchers affiliated with our center are principal investigators, co-investigators and collaborators to local, national and international research projects. Follow our page to learn more about our projects and community activities! We wish you a safe and peaceful day!

Another example of underserved populations being hit harder by the pandemic. Sad.

Italy’s Next Lesson To The World: Coronavirus Is Not A Great Leveller Italy has been under the grip of the coronavirus crisis for nearly two months, and it is becoming clear that the poor and vulnerable South of the country is now suffering not just from the health ramifications of the virus, but also the economic emergency that is brewing.Presenter Emily Maitlis rece...