Dr. Tiarney Ritchwood has been awarded the NIH Director's New Innovator Award for her study "Community-Academic Partnerships to Address COVID-19 Inequities within African American Communities". This novel project seeks to address individual and socio-structural barriers that lead to African Americans disproportionately bearing the burden of elevated rates of COVID-19- related morbidity and mortality by leveraging social innovation, community participatory methods, and multisectoral partnerships. Dr. Ritchwood is a former REIDS scholar and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Duke University School of Medicine.
Published: Monday, November 15, 2021
