COVID-19 Health Equity Guidebook

The Office of Health Equity is proud to present a guidebook tailor-made for helping local health districts respond to COVID-19 equitably.

This Guidebook is a comprehensive resource covering the end-to-end process of planning and executing inclusive and accessible COVID-19 testing events and contact tracing efforts with a health equity lens. The Guidebook includes information on:

• • Understanding Key Populations
  • Planning a Testing Event
  • Developing Inclusive and Accessible Communications
  • Preparing Personnel
  • Executing a Testing Event
  • Providing Culturally-Tailored Contact Tracing
  • Appendix of external resources

Download the Guidebook today and share it with your team!

This Guidebook was created as a joint effort by members of:

• • COVID-19 Unified Command Health Equity Working Group (HEWG)
  • Access and Functional Needs Advisory Committee for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management
  • Commonwealth of Virginia Equity Leadership Task Force
  • Virginia Department of Health (VDH)
  • Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM)

COVID-19 Testing and Tracing Health Equity Guidebook
Planning Checklist
Communities in Need Spreadsheet (Request password from jasmine.smith@vdh.virginia.gov)
COVID-19 Testing Information in Virginia
COVID-19 Contact Tracing Information in Virginia
Data Portal: COVID-19 Epidemiology Information