North Carolina health leaders are preparing to hire and train staff to support existing efforts of local health departments to track the transmission of COVID-19 in our state. The new hires will ...

Contact tracing isn't new, but it has taken on new importance as states move to contain the spread of COVID-19. Many states have already ramped up their number of contact tracers, but thousands more ...

A new, free online class could help you land a job as an in-demand contact tracer. Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health developed a free program to fast-track training and ...

As of last Thursday, 26.5 million Americans had filed for unemployment in a five-week span, as businesses not deemed essential are scaling back or shuttering entirely. Yet perhaps the most essential ...

Unable to scale contact tracing programs with existing resources and funds, many states have opted to recruit public health graduate students, community organizers, and university faculty. Others are ...

To help contain and control COVID-19 many states are turning to contact tracing. However, according to the National Skills Coalition, not many states have developed a program to help workers train for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- With more than a million people unemployed in Illinois, here's a job you can do to be a real asset to your community and you don't need any prior experience. It's COVID-19 contact ...

As U.S. unemployment soars to historic levels, the hottest job of the year could be a lifesaver: contact tracing. Containing the coronavirus as the economy gradually reopens has created an urgent need ...

When Mayor Bill de Blasio first announced plans to amass an army of contact tracers last month, Tien thought she’d be a perfect fit for the job. A Brooklyn resident in her mid-thirties, she speaks two ...

More than 21,000 people applied for contact tracing jobs just one day after Gov. Phil Murphy announced plans to hire upward of 1,000 people throughout the state. The jobs, which will be carried out ...

An estimated 300,000 contact tracers are needed to help expand testing capacity across the country to trace the trail of the coronavirus exposure. States such as Massachusetts, California, and New ...

New Jersey is hiring, as state officials try to build a contact tracing team to improve its response to the coronavirus pandemic. The state will hire at least 1,000 people for “good paying” jobs to ...