{"id":118390,"date":"2020-05-13T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=118390"},"modified":"2020-08-03T14:51:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T00:51:28","slug":"uh-doh-covid-19-contact-tracing-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/13\/uh-doh-covid-19-contact-tracing-training\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr>, <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> partner for COVID-19 contact tracing training program"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/system-uhealthy-covid-contact-tracing.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic of a person walking through a crowd\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-118407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/system-uhealthy-covid-contact-tracing.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/system-uhealthy-covid-contact-tracing-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/system-uhealthy-covid-contact-tracing-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is partnering with the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Department of Health (<abbr>DOH<\/abbr>) to create a program to train personnel and community health workers to support <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> in conducting COVID-19 contact tracing. Health experts say extensive contact tracing is a key component to prevent the spread of the virus while relaxing stay-at-home-orders and restarting <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>DOH<\/abbr> at the peak of the first COVID-19 wave had over 100 contact tracers, including at least 30 volunteers from <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> and other <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> divisions with backgrounds in public health, epidemiology, medicine, and nursing. This one-year, $2.5 million program will leverage <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> faculty expertise and existing courses across the 10-campus system to quickly develop content for the contact tracing training.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This has been a brainchild of State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park and <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr>\u02bbs own Dr. <strong>Aimee Grace<\/strong>, who leads our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/20\/uhealthy-hawaii\/\">东精影业ealthy <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Initiative<\/a> at the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> System,\u201d said <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> <strong>President Lassner<\/strong>. &ldquo;We believe that these programs to expand the number of contract tracers and community health workers will really help protect all of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>\u02bbs communities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i_A3XZUoNaw\">Watch <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> President Lassner&#8217;s full statement at the news conference<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The plan is to then train approximately 300 contact tracers in two to three days, or two to three months, depending on their educational backgrounds, as well as increase the university\u2019s capacity to prepare 100 community health workers each year. <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> can then activate the trained individuals as needed, including as emergency hires, in the event of a surge in COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With 300 staff to extend the capacity for monitoring and investigation, we expect to build the capacity up to at least a 1,000 cases a day,&rdquo; said <abbr>DOH<\/abbr> Director Bruce Anderson at a May 13 news conference with Gov. David Ige. &ldquo;Hopefully, we will not be approaching anything close to that but we are planning for the worse and building up our capacity, accordingly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The university will offer two tracks for contact tracing training: a course for clinical professionals (approximately two to three days to complete for those with at least an undergraduate degree and a clinical health background) and an intensive contact tracing program (approximately two to three months for those with undergraduate degrees, health sciences preferred). All training content and materials will be approved by the <abbr>DOH<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Support will be provided to trainees that complete the appropriate program and join the <abbr>DOH<\/abbr>\u2019s volunteer Medical Reserve Corps.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Community Colleges will add capacity in the community health worker programs and update curricula so that community health worker graduates will be prepared to support COVID-19 contact tracing as needed.<\/p>\n<p>Community health workers are a critical component to contract tracing with their special community-based training and ties to work effectively with identified high-risk populations. Those populations include Native Hawaiian\/Pacific Islander communities, which are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, along with the unemployed and homeless.<\/p>\n<p>The course for clinical professionals will be led by <strong>Kristine Qureshi<\/strong>, associate dean for research and global health and emergency preparedness expert at the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Manoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene. The intensive contact tracing program will be led by <strong>Ricardo Custodio<\/strong>, associate professor of health science at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>. The Community Health Worker training will be led by <strong>Sally Pestana<\/strong>, Health Education Non-Credit Program director at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in the contact tracing or community health worker training can contact <a href=\"mailto:oshi@hawaii.edu\">oshi@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_18816\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i_A3XZUoNaw?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"UH, DOH partner for COVID-19 contact tracing training program\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one-year, $2.5 million program will leverage faculty expertise and existing courses across the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> System to quickly develop content for the contact tracing training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1411,1417,1416,1389,63,167,947,59,1448],"class_list":["post-118390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-research","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-health-science","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-school-of-nursing-and-dental-hygiene","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-uh-doh-contact-tracing","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118390"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121942,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118390\/revisions\/121942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}