Establishment and Evaluation of a Large Contact-Tracing and Case Investigation Virtual Training Academy

Olivia Golston1, Michael Prelip1, Debbie Bain Brickley1

  • 1Olivia Golston is with the Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Michael Prelip, Alina Dorian, and Shira Shafir are with the Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health. Debbie Bain Brickley, Andrew Maher, Michael J. A. Reid, and Karen White are with the UCSF Pandemic Initiative for Equity and Action, University of California, San Francisco. Anne Cass is with the Center for Infectious Diseases, California Department of Public Health, San Diego. Lisa Chen is with the Curry International Tuberculosis Center, University of California, San Francisco. Alice Gandelman is with the California Prevention Training Center, University of California, San Francisco. Chris Keh is with the Center for Infectious Diseases, California Department of Public Health, Richmond. Roger Myrick is with the Institute of Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. Rachel Willard-Grace is with the Center for Excellence in Primary Care, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

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