Insights

Real-Time Learning to Speed Public Health Advances

Healthy Davis Together is focused on implementing multiple initiatives to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and safely re-open Davis. As UC Davis epidemiologists, public health experts, campus coordinators, business owners and city officials work together to implement a community-wide approach, we’re documenting and sharing what we learn so other communities and college towns can apply what works.

Featured Learning

Creating a Model for Community Control of COVID-19

March 18, 2021

Healthy Davis Together seeks to create a proven, replicable model that colleges and other communities can successfully use to reopen.

Engaging Students as Health Ambassadors is a Win-Win

March 12, 2021

To date, nearly 300 students have been trained as Aggie Ambassadors and spend a combined 2,500 hours each week engaging throughout the city.

How Davis is Using Routine Testing to Monitor for New COVID-19 Variants

February 25, 2021

With the recent global spread of the B.1.1.7 variant (which originally emerged and spread in the UK) the UC Davis Genome Center added genotyping of positive samples to the Healthy Davis Together testing protocol to detect the presence of any variants of concern.