"Community members have more impact on their neighbors than celebrities": leveraging community partnerships to build COVID-19 vaccine confidence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vaccines are a strong public health tool to protect against severe disease, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19. Still, inequities in COVID-19 vaccination rates and health outcomes continue to exist among Black and Latino populations. Boston Medical Center (BMC) has played a significant role in vaccinating medically underserved populations, and organized a series of community-engaged conversations to better understand community concerns regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. This paper describes the themes which resulted from these community-engaged conversations and proposes next steps for healthcare leaders.

Methods

We accessed nine publicly available recordings of the community-engaged conversations which were held between March 2021 and September 2021 and ranged

SUBMITTER: Tjilos M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9933023 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature