Our successful COVID-19 Vaccine Ambassador Program is now available in 13 community health organizations with more than 70 individual clinics across eight states. The program has the potential to reach 200,000 people who otherwise may not receive a COVID-19 vaccine. It has been implemented in partnership with Uber Health and…

Stopping the spread of COVID-19 requires rapid, widespread vaccination coverage. Yet there are big differences in vaccine uptake rates among communities. To use their scarce time and resources effectively and equitably, local health authorities must identify pockets of under-vaccination. And if they are to tackle inequities in vaccine rollout, they…

Six states are vulnerable to the impacts of COVID-19 could lose funding under current allocation rules. This calls for new barometer based on household need Our new analysis of the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program shows that the US Treasury plan to reallocate unused funds because they have been spent…

Everything contributes to America’s maternal health crisis: geography, social factors, racial inequality, internalized racism. — Opinion piece by Sema Sgaier and Mary-Ann Etiebet, originally published in USA Today on January 18, 2022. The recent Biden-Harris Maternal Health Day of Action focused the nation’s attention on shameful and inexcusable facts about the health and survival of our mothers. Not only is America’s overall maternal mortality rate…

The first national, community-level index that shows where and why mothers are vulnerable to poor health, and helps combat US maternal mortality and bridge the racial maternal health gap — When it comes to a mother’s health and survival, the United States fares worst among high-income countries, and what’s been even less carefully explored is the degree to which a woman’s environment contributes to her risk of pregnancy-related death or other poor health outcomes.

The following is a simplified version of our original Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence article: Causal Datasheet for Datasets: An Evaluation Guide for Real-World Data Analysis and Data Collection Design Using Bayesian Networks. In rural Uttar Pradesh, India, a state with more than 230 million people, 10 times more mothers and…

Our new county-level analysis finds that 6.2 million renting households are still behind on rent and could face eviction next week — When the CDC’s national moratorium on evictions expires on July 31, more than six million families in America could face eviction filings for being behind on rent. This threat is especially pronounced in 250 counties, where at least one in five renters are still behind on rent. These are the…

Analysis finds areas of the U.S. that face many vaccine barriers also showed lower demand for the vaccine — This is the third in a three-part series deep-diving into what Surgo Ventures has learned about Google Trends as an additional monitoring tool for researchers and policymakers during pandemics and other major national concerns. In Part 1, we explored the broad impact of COVID-19 through national and state-level search trends…

Giving policymakers insights on the public reaction to regulatory milestones — Several weeks ago, Google released a compelling ad, “Get back to what you love,” promoting post-pandemic searches and sending a subtle message about the importance of getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Google searches can be a useful near real-time indicator of public interest during a pandemic. We at Surgo have consequently…