KU Center Appraises Douglas County's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic


A new paper by researchers at the Center for Community Health and Development, an academic health department within the University of Kansas Life Span Institute, details their monitoring and evaluation of the COVID-19 response of the Douglas County public health system.

The findings were just reported in the peer-reviewed journal Health Promotion Practice.

As the pandemic was emerging, there was little understanding of the nature of local public health responses and what enabled them. The KU CCHD partnered with Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health and the Unified Command to better understand the local COVID-19 response.

Left to right: Christina Holt, Steve Fawcett, Ruaa Hassaballa, Dan Partridge, and Sonia Jordan.
Left to right: Christina Holt, Steve Fawcett, Ruaa Hassaballa, Dan Partridge, and Sonia Jordan.

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