New initiative to offer universal testing to students, staff, and faculty as they return to the UC Berkeley campus and to develop rapid response protocols and effective infection control.
Local Epidemic Modeling for the San Francisco Department of Public Health
CTML members involved: Maya Petersen M.D. Ph.D.
The project goal is to develop, test and validate a local epidemic modeling tool for evaluation of current epidemic status, short term projections of hospital resource use, and simulation-based evaluation of future public health interventions.
Berkeley COVID-19 Safe Campus Initiative
CTML members involved: Maya Petersen M.D. Ph.D., Mark van der Laan Ph.D., Jeremy Coyle Ph.D., Ivana Malenica
Link to website- https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/covid-19/safe-campus-initiative/
A team of researchers at UC Berkeley School of Public Health—in partnership with the Innovative Genomics Institute; the Division of Computing, Data Science and Society; and University Health Services—is launching a new initiative to offer universal testing to students, staff, and faculty as they return to the UC Berkeley campus and to develop rapid response protocols and effective infection control.
Called the Berkeley COVID-19 Safe Campus Initiative, the program will establish a system to keep the UC Berkeley campus and surrounding communities safe to facilitate the potential reopening of the university this fall.
This study will estimate the incidence of new infections of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19); discover who remains at risk of infection and why; develop strategies for how best to mitigate this risk; and allow campus to create effective systems to track potential infections. The team will work with local public health systems, including the City of Berkeley’s Public Health Division, to effectively prevent and control ongoing transmission as the economy reopens.
Led by Dr. Arthur Reingold, Division Head of Epidemiology at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and Dr. Maya Petersen, Division Head of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, the study will be based on a cohort of 1,000 students and up to 3,000 faculty and staff who will be tested between May and August of 2020. Data from the study will be complemented by environmental, local, and regional public health data and help lay the foundation for an integrated response across the 6 Bay Area Counties.
Risk-based testing design for university campuses
CTML members involved: Maya Petersen M.D. Ph.D., Mark van der Laan Ph.D., Jeremy Coyle Ph.D., Ivana Malenica
Berkeley Public Health launches new COVID-19 Safe Campus Initiative to help the UC Berkeley campus reopen safely and responsibly
Safe Campus Initiative
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