Marianna Baum and her team at FIU are researching solutions to COVID-19 testing barriers in low-income communities, such as wait times, language barriers, and lack of testing sites. Baum will be collaborating with Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program to set up additional testing facilities.

“We need to talk to the community leaders to see what they perceive as barriers and how to overcome them,” Baum says. Another goal of this project is to evaluate the success of community leaders’ efforts to encourage testing in their neighborhoods. The sites will test up to 200 people per week.

• Marianna Baum