Safely returning underserved youth to school during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic through diagnostic testing and health education is imperative to mitigate the ongoing negative impact of COVID-19 and reduce health inequalities in underserved communities. The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations program is a consortium of research projects across the United States funded by the National Institutes of Health to understand the factors associated with the disproportionate burden of the pandemic among underserved populations and to leverage mitigation strategies, including diagnostic testing, with a focus on reducing health disparities. In this article, we provide an overview and introduce the articles from 8 Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations projects featured in the supplement "Navigating a Pandemic in the K-12 Setting: Keeping Our School Communities Safe" published in Pediatrics. These projects funded in the program's first phase focus on COVID-19 diagnostic testing approaches for youth and employees at schools in underserved communities to support safe in-person learning. In the articles comprising the supplement, researchers present barriers and facilitators of the community engagement process necessary to establish school-academic partnerships. These efforts showcase school-based implementation testing strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic but are translatable to tackling other challenges related to reducing health disparities.

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学校与学术伙伴合作，支持 COVID-19 大流行期间安全返回学校。


在 2019 年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 大流行期间，通过诊断测试和健康教育，让服务不足的青少年安全返回学校，对于减轻 COVID-19 的持续负面影响并减少服务不足社区的健康不平等至关重要。快速加速诊断服务不足人群计划是由美国国立卫生研究院资助的一个由美国各地研究项目组成的联盟，旨在了解与服务不足人群中流感大流行负担过重相关的因素，并利用包括诊断测试在内的缓解策略，重点是减少健康差距。在本文中，我们概述并介绍了 8 个快速加速诊断服务不足人群项目的文章，这些项目发表在《儿科》杂志的增刊“在 K-12 环境中应对流行病：保持我们学校社区的安全”中。该计划第一阶段资助的这些项目重点关注为服务欠缺社区的青少年和学校员工提供 COVID-19 诊断测试方法，以支持安全的面对面学习。在补编的文章中，研究人员提出了建立学校与学术伙伴关系所需的社区参与过程的障碍和促进因素。这些努力展示了 COVID-19 大流行期间基于学校的实施测试策略，但可以转化为解决与减少健康差异相关的其他挑战。