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ReviewPreventing chronic disease2020

Community Engagement of African Americans in the Era of COVID-19: Considerations, Challenges, Implications, and Recommendations for Public Health.

Tabia Henry Akintobi, Theresa Jacobs, Darrell Sabbs, Kisha Holden, Ronald Braithwaite, L Neicey Johnson, Daniel Dawes, LaShawn Hoffman

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Review in Preventing chronic disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors and Mistrust Among Black and Latino Public Housing Residents in NYC.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2026
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  6. A Community-Engaged Approach to Community Health Needs and Assets Assessment for Public Health Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  19. Foundations of Community Engagement: A Series for Effective Community-Engaged Research.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Tabia Henry AkintobiPrevention Research Center, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
Theresa JacobsGeorgia Primary Care Association, Decatur, Georgia.
Darrell SabbsGeorgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance Community Steering Board, Atlanta, Georgia.
Kisha HoldenSatcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
Ronald BraithwaitePrevention Research Center, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
L Neicey JohnsonGeorgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance Community Steering Board, Atlanta, Georgia.
Daniel DawesSatcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
LaShawn HoffmanHoffman & Associates, Atlanta, Georgia.
Morehouse School of Medicine · USGeorgia Clinical and Translational Science AllianceAtlanta Gastroenterology Associates · USGeorgia Chamber of Commerce · US

Funding

Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE)UL1TR002378 · NCATS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Andres J Garcia, Elizabeth O. Ofili · 2017 to 2026
$92.1M
The Morehouse School of Medicine REACH Health Initiative (MSM REACH HI): Transforming Metropolitan Atlanta Communities through Prevention, Primary Care Linkages and Policy Change. U58DP005945 · DP · MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI HENRY-AKINTOBI, TABIA, HOLDEN, KISHA BRAITHWAITE · 2014 to 2014
$999k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002378NCCDPHP CDC HHS U58 DP005945NIH HHS 1U58DP005945-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

African Americans, compared with all other racial/ethnic groups, are more likely to contract coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), be hospitalized for it, and die of the disease. Psychosocial, sociocultural, and environmental vulnerabilities, compounded by preexisting health conditions, exacerbate this health disparity. Interconnected historical, policy, clinical, and community factors explain and underpin community-based participatory research approaches to advance the art and science of community engagement among African Americans in the COVID-19 era. In this commentary, we detail the pandemic response strategies of the Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center. We discuss the implications of these complex factors and propose recommendations for addressing them that, adopted together, will result in community and data-informed mitigation strategies. These approaches will proactively prepare for the next pandemic and advance community leadership toward health equity.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusBlack or African AmericanGuidelines as TopicPandemicsPublic HealthCommunity-Based Participatory ResearchCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Health EquityHumansPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2United States

Identifiers

PMID32790605
PMCPMC7458103
OpenAlexW3048363458

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