California's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy: Rapid Scale-Up of a Statewide Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Workforce Training Program

• Main Authors: Debbie B. Brickley (Author), Maeve Forster (Author), Amelia Alonis (Author), Elizabeth Antonyan (Author), Lisa Chen (Author), Alicia DiGiammarino (Author), Alina Dorian (Author), Caitlin Dunn (Author), Alice Gandelman (Author), Mike Grasso (Author), Alice Kiureghian (Author), Andrew D. Maher (Author), Hannah Malan (Author), Patricia Mejia (Author), Anna Peare (Author), Michael Prelip (Author), Shira Shafir (Author), Karen White (Author), Rachel Willard-Grace (Author), Michael Reid (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Case investigation (CI) and contact tracing (CT) are key to containing the COVID-19 pandemic. Widespread community transmission necessitates a large, diverse workforce with specialized knowledge and skills. The University of California, San Francisco and Los Angeles partnered with the California Dep...