Team "Tracy"

Contributors

Project Lead
Project Director: Gene Chang
Scientific Review: Helen Shih
Public Outreach: Lily Chen

Editorial Board

Jingyi Xi, Ruan Jian, Helen Shih, Qian Yang, Gene Chang, Bian Lei, Debbie Vilardi, Li Siyi

Writers

Jingyi Xi, Vicki Cheng, Yuehan Wu, Alice Cai, Yingde Zhu，Qingda Lu, Ning Wang, Li Siyi, Wang Xinkai, Debbie Vilardi, Tian Gengze, Chen Zhe, Li Chunyang, Yan Li

Translators

Adelynne Chang, Alice Cai, Helen Shih, Xiaoming Dong, Chaoyu Xie, Vicki Cheng, Fang Fei (Vivian Fei), Er Yu, Peter Hu, Sharon Chang, Fred F. Guo

Illustrators

Henry Yuanheng Hu, PotterW, Jiehuan Liu, Mengmeng Zhang, Sun Liu, Yvonne Xia, Lu Ke

Medical Consultants

Helen Shih, Suzhen Jiang, Xiao Luo, Paul Li, Ouyang Li, Shan Chen, Fred F. Guo, Jie Chen

Publishing and Distribution Team

Joey Yang-Li, Fan Xiao, Elaine Gao, Sun Liu, Sean Yin, Changran Huo, Guoqiong Song

Community Outreach and PR Team

Lily Chen, Steven Pei, Joey Yang-Li, Xiaoyu Xu, Victoria Li, Mingtao Jiang

Advisory Board

Mingdi Yang, Qian Yang, Lily Chen, Helen Shih, Sean Yin, Joy Guo, Liu Liu (Xin Zhang), Xifeng Wu, Kejun Zhang, Shun Liu, Weining Yang, Haipei Shue, Steven Pei, Paul Li, Monica He, Nancy Chen, Mingtao Jiang, Min Liu, Bing Zhang, Victoria Li, Lucy Liu, Shu Su, Anna Hong, Yikun Zhao, Shirley Ma, Gene Chang

Professional Backgrounds & Affiliations

Gene Chang, MBA, UCA Board Member, Seattle, Washington

Helen Shih, PhD, Medical Physicist, Holistic Health Advocate, UCA Board Member, Houston, Texas

Lily Chen, MA, RN, CNE, Department of Nursing, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina

Jingyi Xi, PhD of Physics, Freelancer Writer, Seattle, Washington

Suzhen Jiang, MD, Attending Doctor, Department of Infectious Disease, Peking University International Hospital, Beijing, China

Xiao Luo, PhD & Post Doctoral Fellow, Research and Development Center, Sanjiu Medical & Pharmaceutical CO., LTD, Shen Zhen, China

Paul Li, PhD, Virologist, UCA Board Member, Washington DC

Ouyang Li, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Shan Chen, PhD and Master of Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner,

Aunt Martha's Health & Wellness, Chicago, Illinois

Jian Ruan, MA in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, Executive Editor of Front Vision, Xiaoduo Media, New York, New York

Bian Lei, BS in Physics, Editor of Front Vision, Xiaoduo Media, New York, New York

Li Siyi, MA in Communication and New Media, Editor and Staff Writer of Front Vision, Xiaoduo Media, New York, New York

Debbie Vilardi, MS in TESOL, Staff Editor of Front Vision, Xiaoduo Media, New York, New York

Liu Liu (Xin Zhang), Author and Writer, BS in International Trade & Business, Singapore

Mingdi Yang, MA in Journalism and Mass Communication, Publisher of Front Vision & Founder of Xiaoduo Media, New York, New York

Qian Yang, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Public Health Zhejiang University, Hang Zhou, China

Xifeng Wu, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health Zhejiang University, Hang Zhou, China

Kejun Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology Zhejiang University, Hang Zhou, China

Shun Liu, MS, Hubei University, Wu Han, China

Steven Pei, PhD, Department of Electric Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, Honorary Chair, UCA

Mingtao Jiang, PhD, UCA Board Member, Weston, Wisconsin

Joy Guo, UCA Board Member, Las Vegas, Nevada

Haipei Xue, President, UCA, Washington DC

Our Story

“COVID-19: Tracy’s Guide for Families” is a running online series aimed to provide useful knowledge and tips for protecting our loved ones and our home as we work together to “flatten the curve”. As more than 80 percent of Americans are now under stay-at-home orders, learning how to take care of our homes and protect family members is a critical part of the national effort to control the pandemic. In this Guide, UCA volunteers are gathering valuable experiences from Chinese-speaking regions that are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, so their hard lessons-learned can be shared with the rest of the world.

Materials in the guide are collated and distilled from the official medical guidelines, prevention books, and published materials, from China and other regions, then adopted into English literature based on American custom by freelance writers, translators and artists. They are also cross-checked and referenced, and combined with those from CDC and various state public health departments, with an aim to bring out these contents to American families and communities in a timely fashion. The guide is the product of teamwork and collaborative effort by more than 50 volunteers and UCA members, both in the US and China. Many of them are healthcare professionals, biomedical scientists, and medical doctors involved in fighting the COVID-19 pandemics since the beginning.

Through a factitious character named Ms. "Tracy”, the key steps in COVID-19 prevention, how to disinfect common household items and areas such as kitchen and bathroom, and how to take care of the sick, are addressed by a lively question-and-answer dialog fashion. The materials are specially organized and illustrated to make it easy to understand, attractive to children, and relatable to the general public. More than 50 articles will be forthcoming, addressing questions and providing know-how in the most commonly encountered situations at home and in community settings.

“Tracy's Guide for Families” is a public education project of United Chinese Americans (UCA). The project is initiated and organized by UCA volunteers. UCA and its members have been actively engaged in the relief effort and public health education since the beginning of the pandemics in China. "Tracy's Guide for Families" project is supported by our content partners, Zhejiang University School of Public Health and Xiaoduo Front Vision. Zhejiang University School of Public Health is an authority of public health policies in China during the COVID-19 outbreak. Xiaoduo Front Vision is a children's book publisher and educational content provider, and the publisher of Front Vision, a monthly 100+ page comprehensive science and arts publication for children age 9 to 14.

For more information on the Guide, as well as other efforts by UCA members and the Chinese-American community to combat COVID-19 in America, contact Lily Chen: lily.chen@ucausa.org

For more information about UCA, please visit our website: https://ucausa.org/.