Exposure Notification Apps Curb Pandemic Spread, Not User Privacy

RESEARCH & DISCOVERY

Apps like COVIDawareMN quickly and efficiently alert those who may have been exposed to COVID-19 without tracking their movements or personal information.

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INTERNAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship, Office of the Vice President for Research
Deadline: Start accepting applications, Jan. 4, 2021; Applications routed to approvers, Feb. 1, 2021; Approvers to submit applications to OVPR, Feb. 4, 2021.

Social Justice Impact Grants, Office of the Vice President for Research
Deadline: Awarded on a rolling basis

See OVPR's Internal Funding Opportunities for more available UMN funding or to submit an opportunity to be listed.

EVENTS

Webinar - Challenges in COVID Vaccine Allocation & Distribution
Friday, January 8, 2021, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (CST)

Challenges in COVID Vaccine Allocation & Distribution will address how to identify priority groups for vaccine allocation, advance population health and equity, meet the real-world challenges of vaccine distribution, and address vaccine hesitancy.

Audience members will be able to ask questions of our multidisciplinary panelists; this webinar is free and open to the public.

Moderated by Prof. Susan Wolf, Chair of the Consortium on Law and Values, and Dr. Michael Osterholm, who was recently named to President-Elect Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, the webinar will also feature:

• Dr. Helene Gayle, president and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, who co-chaired the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine working group that produced the Framework for Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus
• Kristen Ehresmann, RN, MPH, director, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division, Minnesota Department of Health
• Helen Branswell, senior writer, Infectious Disease, STAT

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