Grassroots and Digital Outreach Strategies Raise Awareness of Covid-19 Information and Research in Baltimore City
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We aimed to disseminate reliable COVID-19 information to the Black and Latino communities of Baltimore City, Maryland, between July 2020 and December 2022. With community partners, we disseminated evidence-based COVID-19 information via grassroots and digital strategies, including Hopkins Opportunity for Participant Engagement, and connected volunteers to COVID-19 research. Using a multimodal approach facilitated dissemination of reliable information and raised awareness of research; evaluation of trust is ongoing. Robust, multimodal strategies are needed to foster trust and equity among diverse communities. (Am J Public Health. 2024;114(S1):S69–S73. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307492 )
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Community engagement · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Dissemination · Equity (law) · Grassroots · Health equity · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Information Dissemination · Medical education · Outreach · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Ethics in Clinical Research · Health Policy Implementation Science · Medicine · Nursing · Public Health Policies and Education · Gerontology
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