RADx-UP CDCC Newsletter – December 2, 2022

Vol. 2, No. 21

Action Items:

Nominate members to the RADx-UP Steering Committee
Complete the Project Feedback Survey
Submit your presentation proposal for the 2023 RADx-UP Scientific Meeting

Dear RADx-UP partners,

We’re delighted to share the news that RADx-UP project investigators and NIH and CDCC leaders have contributed data results and insights to a special supplement of the American Journal of Public Health.

The supplement includes 19 editorials, perspectives, and Notes from the Field articles that explore a range of topics gleaned from your community-engaged COVID-19 research projects.

We know that this collection represents an important step in the consortium’s goal to disseminate the results of your work and honor the participation of the many communities and individuals who want to see advances in health equity.

Thank you to all the RADx-UP project teams that contributed to this supplement.

Learn more here.

RADx-UP Bibliometrics Report

The RADx-UP Tracking & Evaluation Team has prepared this report about the impact of early research from RADx-UP project teams.

One finding: “Early data from standardized citation scores indicate that RADx-UP publications are cited more than their peer publications.”

Download the report to learn more about what the team found.

Steering Committee – Call for Project Member Nominations

The CDCC is seeking 5-6 project team members to serve one-year terms on the RADx-UP Steering Committee starting in January 2023. Members leverage their experiences, expertise, and insight to help the RADx-UP program achieve its strategic goals. The expected time commitment for this committee is approximately 1.5 hours every other month. Project team members will be compensated up to $1800 for a 12-month commitment. Academic partners, investigators (principal investigators, co-investigators), and community partners representing all project phases (I, II, III) are eligible and encouraged to submit a nomination. To submit a nomination, complete this online form by Dec. 21, 2022.

Complete the Tracking & Evaluation Project Feedback Survey

The RADx-UP CDCC Tracking and Evaluation team requests that project teams and community and academic partners complete the Project Feedback Survey (PFS), extended to Jan. 9, 2023. This survey assesses your use of and satisfaction with the CDCC’s support services. The survey will take 25 minutes or less to complete.

Find the survey here.

Call for presentation proposals for the 2023 Scientific Meeting

The CDCC is soliciting proposals for oral presentations and poster sessions at the 2023 RADx-UP Scientific Meeting (May 3 on Zoom). This is an opportunity to share your project’s insights and results with fellow consortium members, community partners, NIH leaders, and others. All RADx-UP project teams are eligible to submit presentation abstracts. We anticipate selecting eight teams to give 20-minute oral presentations, as well as additional teams to discuss key takeaways in a virtual poster session. Please consider submitting your proposal soon – start by reading the proposal criteria in this PDF, and then use this online form to tell us what you’d like to present.

Proposals are due by Jan. 13, 2023.

A new analysis proposal seeks to explore chronic health conditions, disability, and COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and infection. Find out more about that proposal and its writing team on the Submitted Analysis Proposal list. Please continue submitting your Analysis Concepts and visit the Partnering for Impact homepage for more information about the initiative.

New RADx-UP Insights section highlights your work

The new Insights section on RADx-UP.org spotlights data results and insights that RADx-UP projects are learning about COVID-19 testing and vaccination, community engagement, and strategies for building health equity. Visit this page to find and share more information about RADx-UP emerging research themes, future research recommendations, and policy implications.

October Project-wide Meeting presentation recap

The October Project-wide Meeting included a presentation by Katharine Quinn with the project VOICES: The Violence and COVID Equity Study at the Medical College of Wisconsin. This study examined the intersection of violence and COVID-19 in Chicago. Quinn defined the intersection of these epidemics as a syndemic. Read this recap of the presentation to learn more about the study, conclusions, and lessons learned.

RADx-UP Research Brief

Financial incentives work to increase COVID-19 testing among people who inject drugs

This study from the University of Oregon and the HIV Alliance explored the impact of contingency management (in the form of a $10 gift card) on COVID-19 testing use by people who inject drugs. Large scale implementation of financial incentives could help to facilitate long term sustainment in health behaviors, specifically testing, as an infectious disease mitigation strategy. Read and share the Research Brief.

September Community Connections meeting recording available

The September 2022 Community Connections meeting, which featured a conversation with Rev. Donald L. Wright Jr., EMBA, MDiv, about partnerships with faith-based institutions, is here for you to view.

Image Bank update

The RADx-UP Image Bank is helping to tell the RADx-UP story. Photos submitted by RADx-UP community members or those commissioned by the program have been seen on the cover of the AJPH supplement and in media about RADx-UP research. The Image Bank is a collection of photos that reflect the impact of COVID-19 across diverse RADx-UP sites and populations across the U.S. Research teams and community partners are invited to use photos when reporting about or recruiting for RADx-UP research and we encourage you to add photos to the bank to be used by other RADx-UP projects. Request a photo from the image bank through this form or submit a photo to be included in the image bank here.

Final Funding Opportunity: Rapid Research Pilot Project grants

Jan. 13, 2023, is the deadline to apply for the one-year NIH-funded research pilot program. Please share this opportunity with other networks. Watch this video with a previous RADx-UP RP2 awardee, and learn more about how to apply here.

FDA updates guidance on repeat COVID-19 testing

On Nov. 1, the FDA updated the EUA revision for Serial (Repeat) Testing and required updates to product labeling for all currently authorized SARS-CoV-2 antigen tests for symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. Please view this PDF for instructions from the CDCC Testing Core on modifying your testing strategies. Documentation of adherence to these changes must be provided.

You & Me Healthy Registry updates

The You & Me Healthy (YMH) Registry launched in early September and is currently enrolling participants for a Monkeypox Study. Learn more about the registry and the study, the first Hot Topics survey on mental health and wellbeing, and a new resources page about results from the Say Yes COVID Test and You & Me COVID-Free programs here.

Washington Post readers share their Thanksgiving disasters

The Post asked readers to share their Thanksgiving cooking disaster stories. Some common themes in the stories include oven malfunctions, animal interference, and experimentation gone wrong. Many of these stories are also memories that families laugh about for years. The ones related to the turkey igniting made me chuckle the most. What are your favorite cooking disaster stories?

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