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.
Supplement News
- Research by team including IMPACT members Vince Mor and Ellen McCarthy explores the varied uptake of the coadministered COVID/influenza vaccines during the pandemic
- Supplemental NIA IMPACT study with pharmacies results in national database of older adult COVID-19 vaccine data
- Two supplement awards to IMPACT Collaboratory will link big data and the impact of COVID-19 on people living with dementia