Roberta Timothy, an assistant professor at U of T’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, is leading a project to collect national and international data on how COVID-19 is affecting the Black community (photo by Adam Coish)

U of T researcher launches project to collect data on Black experience with COVID-19

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A University of Toronto researcher is launching a Black-run survey to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the African and Black diaspora.

“This project is about life and death for our community,” says Roberta Timothy, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health who is leading the project. “Too many people know someone who got COVID or died from it or COVID-related comorbidities.”….

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-researcher-launches-project-collect-data-black-experience-covid-19

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