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Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021

Emily S. Barrett PhD, Tracy R. Andrews MS, Jason Roy PhD, Patricia Greenberg MS, Jeanne M. Ferrante MD, MPH, Daniel B. Horton MD, MSCE, Marsha Gordon MPH, Zorimar Rivera-Núñez PhD, MS, Maria B. Pellerano MA, MBA, MPH, Alfred F. Tallia MD, MPH, Mark Budolfson PhD, Panos Georgopoulos PhD, Dorothy Reed , Beverly Lynn EdD, Robert Rosati PhD, Manuel Castañeda MS, MJ, CHC, Francis Dixon , Chris Pernell MD, MPH, Diane Hill PhD, Manuel E. Jimenez MD, MS, FAAP, Martin J. Blaser MD, Reynold Panettieri Jr. PhD, and Shawna V. Hudson PhD

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Correspondence should be sent to Emily S. Barrett, PhD, Rutgers School of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, 170 Frelinghuysen Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854 (e-mail: ). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the “Reprints” link.

CONTRIBUTORS

E. S. Barrett led the conceptualization and drafting of the article. T. R. Andrews, J. Roy, and P. Greenberg designed and performed the statistical analyses. J. M. Ferrante, M. Gordon, Z. Rivera-Núñez, M. B. Pellerano, A. F. Tallia, D. Reed, B, Lynn, R. Rosati, M. Castañeda, F. Dixon, C. Pernell, D. Hill, M. E. Jimenez and S. V. Hudson led outreach and implementation. All of the authors contributed to the study design and reviewed and revised the article.

https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306989
Accepted: June 16, 2022
Published Online: November 29, 2022

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Emily S. Barrett, PhD , Tracy R. Andrews, MS , Jason Roy, PhD , Patricia Greenberg, MS , Jeanne M. Ferrante, MD, MPH , Daniel B. Horton, MD, MSCE , Marsha Gordon, MPH , Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, PhD, MS , Maria B. Pellerano, MA, MBA, MPH , Alfred F. Tallia, MD, MPH , Mark Budolfson, PhD , Panos Georgopoulos, PhD , Dorothy Reed , Beverly Lynn, EdD , Robert Rosati, PhD , Manuel Castañeda, MS, MJ, CHC , Francis Dixon , Chris Pernell, MD, MPH , Diane Hill, PhD , Manuel E. Jimenez, MD, MS, FAAP , Martin J. Blaser, MD , Reynold Panettieri Jr., PhD , and Shawna V. Hudson, PhD Emily S. Barrett, Tracy R. Andrews, Jason Roy, Patricia Greenberg, Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, Mark Budolfsen, and Panos Georgopoulos are with the Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ. Jeanne M. Ferrante, Daniel B. Horton, Marsha Gordon, Maria B. Pellerano, Alfred F. Tallia, Manuel E. Jimenez, and Shawna V. Hudson are with the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ. Dorothy Reed is with Sister2Sister Inc, Somerset, NJ. Beverly Lynn is with Programs for Parents Inc, Newark, NJ. Robert Rosati is with the Connected Health Institute, Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, Holmdel, NJ. Manuel Castañeda is with New Brunswick Tomorrow, New Brunswick, NJ. Francis Dixon is with New Hope NOW Community Development Corporation, Newark, NJ. Chris Pernell is with University Hospital, Newark, NJ. Diane Hill is with Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, NJ. Martin J. Blaser is with the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Reynold Panettieri Jr. is with the Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science, New Brunswick, NJ. “Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021”, American Journal of Public Health 112, no. S9 (November 1, 2022): pp. S918-S922.

https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306989

PMID: 36265092