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Jennifer Hays-Grudo, PhD, is a Regents Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at OSU Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa. She is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity (CIRCA), an $11M center grant funded by the National Institutes of Health, where she coordinates research and training on adversity and resilience. Prior to that she was the George Kaiser Chair of Community Medicine at OU-Tulsa where she led the Tulsa Children’s Project, a collaboration with Harvard’s Center for the Developing Child. She is the co-author of the recently published book, Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective, published by the American Psychological Association. Dr. Hays-Grudo is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Adversity and Resilience Science (Springer/Nature Publisher).
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As active coronavirus cases remain above 30,000 in Oklahoma, the state health department says its contact tracers are having to prioritize calls and will advise most people with confirmed cases to do their own contact tracing.
In addition, the state has shuttered a contact tracing call center in Oklahoma City paid for by federal CARES Act money. A related contract for additional temporary contact tracers continues but the Oklahoma State Department of Health is looking for additional funding to keep those positions in the new year. Weekly reports from this fall show just how far behind contact tracers and case investigators were getting as cases continued to rise.