The COVID-19 Unity Project
Community voices during the pandemic in Orange County, California
In May 2020,
29 HELIOS and PRIME-LC student researchers from UC Irvine completed 14+ hours of training to reach out & conduct interviews with community members.
We interviewed 46 community members by phone:
29 Hispanic/Latinx residents with chronic health conditions who receive care from safety net clinics in Santa Ana (27 in Spanish)
8 leaders from community based organizations
9 health care workers that serve marginalized communities in central OC
We asked about:
These are some of the experiences they shared
Major themes with representative quotations
Names of respondents have been changed
We have also developed resource guides in both English and Spanish as a reference for our participants.
Community Resource Guide - English
Community Resource Guide - Spanish
We are eager to collaborate!
We have over 36 hours of interviews recorded, and plan to conduct more throughout the summer. Please help elevate the voices of the community by sharing this report, or inviting us to work with you. We can draw on these voices to help guide your efforts in policy, advocacy, communication and service.
Contact:
John Billimek, PhD
UC Irvine Department of Family Medicine,
Health Policy Research Institute and
Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC)
Jacqueline Chow
Project Coordinator
UCI Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
The COVID-19 Unity Project is made possible with support from the National Institutes of Health (NHLBI grant number R01HL142964), the Mi Propio Camino Project and the UC Irvine COVID-19 Basic, Translational and Clinical Research Funding Opportunity.