Dr Robert Aldridge will lead a new Virus Watch study that aims to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on minority ethnic and migrant groups and how to tackle it in community settings. This funding will enable Virus Watch to recruit approximately 12,000 people from minority ethnic and migrant groups.
The new research project will also separately utilise the Million Migrant Cohort study of healthcare and mortality outcomes in non-EU migrants and refugees to England since 2015. In collaboration with Public Health England, they will link this with data on COVID-19 diagnosis and hospitalization to determine how often these groups are diagnosed, hospitalised and die with COVID-19 and how this is affected by their socioeconomic situation and pre-existing health conditions.
You can read more about the newly funded study and others that were also awarded funding here.