A renowned NYU clinical Professor of epidemiology, Dr. Robyn Gershon, and her team were awarded a four million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of COVID-19 on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) transit workers.
The study hopes to develop best practices to keep essential non-healthcare workers, such as transit workers, safe in future emergencies and to reduce the disparities that they face. This grant was awarded after launching a pilot study that found that the number of people who contracted the virus was markedly higher than what was reported by transit officials.
Read the full news article here, and the NYU news release here.