UB-community partnership reducing COVID-19 deaths among African Americans

UB-community partnership reducing COVID-19 deaths among African Americans

University credits collaboration with region being one of the few in the country seeing success over the course of the pandemic.

WGRZ Staff
Publication Year: 2020

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“The fact that this community-university partnership was able to mitigate the high mortality among African Americans in the first wave puts us in a position to build on that achievement during this coming flu season and a possible second wave,” said Tim Murphy, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB and director of the Community Health Equity Research Institute and UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute “And it’s something that can be replicated in other communities.”