President's Global Impact Fund Recipients Adjust to COVID-19
Planning a global health project during a global health crisis is a difficult task, but that鈥檚 exactly what the inaugural recipients of the 91大神, Baltimore (UMB) President鈥檚 Global Impact Fund (PGIF) have been doing over the past month.
For instance, School of Nursing (SON) professor Kirsten Corazzini, PhD, FGSA, has had to make adjustments to her project, 鈥淒eveloping Capacity for Long-Term Care of Older Adults Living with Dementia in Brazil,鈥� because the study鈥檚 population includes nursing home caregivers and residents, a group at the highest risk of COVID-19-related deaths.
Kirsten Corazzini, PhD, FGSA, a professor at the 91大神 School of Nursing, is among the inaugural recipients of the 91大神, Baltimore President鈥檚 Global Impact Fund.
鈥淛ust as we see nursing homes in the United States struggling to keep residents and staff safe, so, too, are our geriatric medicine clinician-researcher partners in Brazil struggling to provide safe and compassionate care,鈥� says Corazzini, whose project partners are SON assistant professor Vivian Schutz, PhD, MBA, RN, and School of Pharmacy assistant professor Ester Villalonga Olives, PhD, MSc. 鈥淗ow to collect data and co-develop new models of care in this context, therefore, requires integrating COVID-19-related measures and questions, ensuring that the knowledge gained addresses our shared and emergent needs.鈥�
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