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UMKC receives $1.9 million grant for COVID-19 study

An initiative through the National Institutes of Health is giving UMKC nearly $2 million for a study on COVID-19 testing. The study focuses on the effects of church-based intervention and COVID-19 testing rates among underserved populations, with a goal of increasing testing.

Nearly $2 million in grant funding has been given to the University of Missouri-Kansas City for a study centered on COVID-19 testing in among minority populations in underserved communities.

Through a National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative, UMKC will receive $1.9 million to study the effects of church-based intervention in improving COVID-19 testing.

Grant funding comes specifically from the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program under the NIH, a larger initiative co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt.

UMKC’s study will focus on one “primarily African American community” in the city, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Another Missouri university, Washington University in St. Louis, will receive $2.8 million for its study titled, “Expanding Population-Level Interventions to Help More Low-Income Smokers Quit.”