Building Infrastructure

Building Infrastructure

The  IMPACT community has received COVID-19 Supplements for research efforts led by IMPACT Principal Investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, in response to the urgent public health needs arising from COVID-19 and its devastating impact on people living with dementia, their families and care partners.  These two supplement awards are for efforts to develop data sharing and reporting systems and data infrastructures to monitor the effects of the COVID-19 vaccines administered to frail elders, on whom the vaccines were not widely tested prior to approval for use.  These initiatives will provide near real-time insight into the use, effects and outcomes related to use of COVID-19 vaccines among this frail population and introduce the potential of using big data to improve our national response to the pandemic and public health outcomes for older adults.