Creating a COVID-19 Vulnerability Data Tool
7 Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH, policy and community engagement core co-lead, and Félice Lê- Scherban, PhD, MPH, training core co-lead, were one of seventeen awardees for Drexel University’s Rapid Response and Development Fund. Their project “Creating a COVID-19 Urban Vulnerability Data Tool to Inform Mobilization and Coalition-Building” created a web-based data tool to assess risk indicators and identify areas and sub-populations within Philadelphia that will experience the highest burden of COVID-19 and its economic impacts. Identifying which areas of the city will be most vulnerable to COVID-19 health and socioeconomic impacts will be immediately useful to the wider Drexel community, West Philly Promise Neighborhood, and public and private agencies throughout Philadelphia to inform allocation of resources and focus of response efforts.
West Philly Promise Neighborhood COVID-19 Community Resources The West Philly Promise Neighborhood team has come together with program partners, civic leaders, neighborhood residents, principals and school leaders to assess the needs of the local community and mobilize to meet them. The West Philly Promise Neighborhood project team developed radio messaging, posters, and infographics on various COVID-19 related facts and resources available during the pandemic and shared them with City agency leaders, West Philly partners (including food distribution sites), and via social media. During the height of the pandemic, resource bags containing cleaning supplies, educational supplies, and COVID-19 information and resources were distributed to civic leaders and neighbors daily.
