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  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Community Health

Background:

  • Higher education institutions often focused COVID-19 mitigation on campuses, neglecting surrounding communities.
  • Community spread of infectious diseases can be exacerbated by a lack of integrated public health strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate a community pandemic-response program in a college town.
  • To assess the impact of epidemiological infection-control and health behavior interventions on community health outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Implementation of a community-wide pandemic-response program incorporating infection-control measures.
  • Deployment of health behavior change interventions targeting the wider community.
  • Monitoring of self-reported health behaviors and case positivity rates.

Main Results:

  • Observed increase in self-reported preventive health behaviors among community members.
  • Lower relative case positivity proportion in the community during the program.
  • Identification of scalable strategies for pandemic response in diverse community settings.

Conclusions:

  • Community-based pandemic-response programs can effectively mitigate disease transmission.
  • Integrating public health infrastructure is crucial for enhancing community resilience.
  • The program's scalable approaches offer a model for future public health initiatives in college towns and beyond.