COVID-19 Outreach
- Data analysis and population briefings on community-based COVID-19 testing conducted by Delta Health Center, Inc.
- Assessment on food assistance in a pandemic – interviews and resource mapping in collaboration with the FEED Fund, Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi and UM-CREW, with support from the Maddox Foundation and UM Disaster Resilience Constellation
- Participation in the Impacts to the Deep South Working Group
- Research briefs and publications:
COVID-19 in the Rural South: A Perfect Storm of Disease, Health Access, and Co-Morbidity, Anne Cafer and Meagen Rosenthal
Health Risks for COVID-19 in Mississippi Counties, Jamiko Deleveaux and Vanessa Parks
Broadband Subscriptions Vary in Mississippi: Implications for the COVID-19 Era, John J. Green
Population 65 Years and Older Varies by Region and Non-Metro Status in Mississippi: Implications for COVID-19, John J. Green
The Critical Role of Social Capital During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Disaster Research, Vanessa Parks
Coronavirus is spreading through rural South’s high-risk population – reopening economies will make it worse, Anne Cafer and Meagen Rosenthal, in The Conversation, April 2020
- Presentation to Oxford School District Committee on Re-opening Schools, COVID-19 Data to Inform Decision Making, John J. Green
- Delta Scholars Project Proposal, COVID-19 Public Health Intervention Compliance in Oxford, MS and Starkville, MS, John Chase Bryan (Mississippi State University) and Morgan Whited (University of Mississippi)