# Impact of Community Health Worker Home Deployment on COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence and Uptake

> **NIH NIH P30** · EMORY UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $300,000

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT
In response to NOT-OD-21-101, the Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research (P30DK111024-05S1),
a partnership of Emory University (EU), Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), and Georgia Institute of
Technology submits this RADx-UP Supplement proposal titled, “Impact of Community Health Worker Home
Deployment on COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence and Uptake.” We propose collaborating with our RADx-UP
Diabetes rural community partner and utilizing locally developed and tested Georgia CEAL (1OT2HL156812-
01/16-312-0217571-66105L, PI-Akintobi) COVID-19 communication materials to enhance COVID-19 testing in
addition to vaccine confidence and uptake in underserved populations most severely affected by COVID-19
disease (i.e., African Americans and Latinos with diabetes, prediabetes, and their household contacts
[“bubble”]). The proposed 1-year project will implement and evaluate a brief Community Health Worker (CHW)
intervention through the Albany Area Primary Health Care, a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).
The primary goal of this study is to maximize effective outreach, education, and communication through CHWs
in order to facilitate improved COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake in underserved and vulnerable
communities. CHWs will be deployed to the homes of adults with increased risk of morbidity and mortality (i.e.,
African Americans or Latinos with uncontrolled diabetes or prediabetes, age <50 years, and non-COVID-19
vaccinated) in order to educate them about diabetes, COVID-19 and related vaccines. Health assessments,
including blood glucose measurement, will be conducted on the indexed patient and offered to all other adult
family members in the household (i.e., “bubble”). Adults with Type 2 diabetes likely live in households with
other adults who have or are at increased risk for diabetes (i.e., prediabetes and obesity).1 It is expected that
they will also share similar COVID-19 exposure risk. The specific aims are to: 1) Evaluate a community-driven
education program to increase and enhance COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake in individuals with
uncontrolled diabetes and their families (i.e., their “bubble”) and 2) Evaluate a community-driven education
program to improve diabetes self-management behaviors and related outcomes (e.g., blood glucose) in
individuals with uncontrolled diabetes in rural, Southwest Georgia.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10403813
- **Project number:** 3P30DK111024-06S1
- **Recipient organization:** EMORY UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Kabayam M Venkat Narayan
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $300,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2016-09-16 → 2024-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10403813

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10403813, Impact of Community Health Worker Home Deployment on COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence and Uptake (3P30DK111024-06S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10403813. Licensed CC0.

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