UArizona's Safer Contact Tracing Call Center

Students at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health are on the frontlines of COVID-19 contact tracing in Arizona. Part of the Student Aid for Field Epidemiology Response (SAFER) program, the students investigates positive COVID-19 cases to mitigate its spread and learn more about the risk factors. "I don't think we can do this without the students who are making those calls day in and day out," said Erika Austhof, an epidemiologist at the college of public health who helps run the student call center. "They have been here hundreds and thousands of hours making calls since last March."