San Diego State University has become the site for dozens of COVID-19 research projects, an urgent response to the pandemic that is probing its impact on individuals, health care professionals and communities while looking ahead to possible interventions and solutions. Learn more: research.sdsu....
Faculty worked with San Diego government and health agencies, nonprofits and health care providers to build large-scale programs that promote testing, contact tracing and vaccine uptake among hard-to-reach groups. One $5 million National Institute of Health-funded project aims to test 42,000 people in underserved communities in a year. Meanwhile, several projects seek to understand COVID-19’s impact on San Diego’s vulnerable communities and to map critical information necessary to address COVID-19 head-on.
Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age director Ming-Hsiang Tsou and geography colleagues developed a comprehensive resource database to help monitor and visualize outbreak patterns in San Diego County using big data, GIS and social media.
Virology researchers Forest Rohwer and Naveen Vaidya are collecting and analyzing environmental samples for COVID-19, developing mathematical and computational models to predict COVID-19 risk and trends in different parts of San Diego. The project informs public agencies about how the virus spreads and determines if there are environmental reservoirs where the virus thrives.
Learn more about SDSU's COVID-19 research: research.sdsu....
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