Build and Broaden: The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 in Hispanic Communities in the Tri-State Area

该项目是一个论坛，旨在讨论和促进对COVID-19大流行对纽约、新泽西和康涅狄格州拉丁裔社区的长期影响的科学理解。除了新冠肺炎对拉丁裔社区造成不成比例的健康影响外，大流行还引发了美国各地的经济衰退和教育匮乏，这也严重影响了三州地区的拉丁裔社区。在会议上，来自各个学科的社会和行为科学家，以及来自地区西班牙裔服务机构的学者，分享了他们对社区背景下的相互关联的转变动态的研究，获得医疗保健和西班牙裔社区由于大流行的教育成果。本次会议积累的知识将有助于决策者和社区领导人深入了解该流行病对拉丁裔社区的影响。本次会议扩大了拉丁裔和拉丁裔学者以及与拉丁裔社区一起进行教学和研究的学者的参与，以增进对大流行对健康、经济和教育影响的认识和理解。这次会议的目的是使拉美裔服务机构的社会网络制度化。会议的主题领域包括(1)健康差距；(2)社区结构；(3)教育过程。前三个小组讨论都强调了其中一个中心主题，而第二天的小组讨论则侧重于在主题领域之间建立基础联系。会议有三个层面的传播：与学术界分享的特刊，社区组织和决策者参加会议；以及面向广大公众的研究人员快照和会议记录的广播和数字存储库。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is a conference that serves as a forum to discuss and advance scientific understanding of the long-term impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Latino communities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. In addition to the disproportionate health impacts of COVID-19 on Latino communities, the pandemic has triggered an economic recession and educational privation across the United States that have also excessively affected Latino communities in the Tri-State area. In the conference, social and behavioral scientists from a wide range of disciplines, featuring scholars from regional Hispanic Serving Institutions, share their emerging research on the interconnected dynamics of the transformation in community contexts, access to healthcare, and educational outcomes in Hispanic communities due to the pandemic. The knowledge developed from this conference will help decision makers and community leaders develop an in-depth understanding of the impact of the pandemic on Latino communities. This conference broadens participation by Latina and Latino scholars and scholars that teach and do research with Latino communities in the advancement of knowledge and understanding on health, economic, and educational impacts of the pandemic. The conference is organized to institutionalize social networks across regional Hispanic Serving Institutions. The thematic areas of the conference include (1) health disparities, (2) community structures, and (3) educational processes. Each of the first three panels highlights one of these central themes, while the second-day panel focuses on building foundational connections across the thematic areas. The conference features three levels of dissemination: a special journal issue to be shared with the academic community, the participation of community-based organizations and policymakers in the conference; and a broadcast and digital repository of researcher snapshots and conference proceedings for the broader public.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.