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Community Conversations on COVID-19 Vaccines
As misinformation and low confidence in vaccines continue to be barriers to increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates, CEAL teams across the country are working with their communities to ensure everyone has access to accurate information and resources. Explore some of our highlights, including a new CEAL Alliance guide to tackling misinformation and a report from Arizona CEAL.
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Adapting Fact-Based Information to the Needs of Communities: A Guide
This guide for health care workers and community messengers provides fact-based responses to common questions received by CEAL teams. It provides examples of ways to address misinformation within communities.
Download in English
Download in Spanish
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COVID-19 Testing, Treatment, and Vaccines: Ask Questions to Prepare for Your COVID-19 Services
Share this CEAL resource with your community members to help them understand the type of information that may or may not be required at COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccine sites. The handout addresses FAQs, including the cost of COVID-19 vaccines, whether you need to be a legal resident of the U.S., and the availability of translation services.
Download in English
Download in Spanish
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Stories From Arizona CEAL
Arizona CEAL team members have developed a report with recommendations for effective COVID-19 educational materials, with the help of the folks who know the community best: community health workers.
Read the story
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How COVID-19 Affects Pregnancy
Learn about NIH’s ongoing research to answer questions and explain the possible effects of COVID-19 on pregnancy. This animation touches on vaccination, fertility, breastfeeding, and more.
View the animation
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Request for Information: HHS Seeking Input on Advancing Sensitivity Toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking input from Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and AAPI-serving organizations to inform guidance describing best practices for advancing cultural competency, language access, and sensitivity toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the context of the federal government’s COVID-19 response.
Submit by August 17, 2021
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A Barbershop Take on COVID-19 Vaccines With Dr. Fauci
In the first segment of “Barbershop Medicine,” a YouTube Originals series from the American Public Health Association, Dr. Anthony Fauci joins Jamie Rutland, M.D., and Italo Brown, M.D. M.P.H., to discuss the importance of the COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine hesitancy in African American and Hispanic/Latino communities.
Watch the video
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The ACTIV Inpatient Trials and Combat COVID
The fight against COVID-19 is not over, especially for those battling severe symptoms and related illnesses. Participation in a clinical trial may help hospitalized patients recover from COVID-19 more quickly. Since the ACTIV trials launched in May 2020, thousands of volunteers have joined clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, but many more are needed to ensure treatments work for people of all ages, genders, races, and ethnicities.
Read the full story at Combat COVID
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Latino Coalition Against COVID-19 Presents “Advancing Innovation to Eliminate Health Disparities”
Join the Latino Coalition Against COVID-19 (LCAC19) and SaludCon Tech on August 5 at 3 p.m. ET for the next installment of the Building Health Equity in Latinx Communities Virtual Town Hall Series: “Advancing Innovation to Eliminate Health Disparities.” Hear from Eliseo Pérez-Stable, M.D., Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), and Ilan Shapiro, M.D., LCAC19 Director of Communication and Medical Director at AltaMed Health Services, on digital health equity and how COVID-19 has amplified health disparities.
Preregister for the live townhall
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En Confianza: Ayudando a mi familia e hijos a vacunarse
Join La Red Hispana on August 17 at 7 p.m. ET for the third installment of En Confianza, “Ayundando a mi familia e hijos a vacunarse.” Listen as parents and experts talk about COVID-19 vaccines and how to protect their families.
Join the Facebook Live event
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Key Conversations
CEAL events promote community engagement, inclusion in research, and COVID-19 vaccines. These key conversations, including town halls and panel discussions, can also be found on our Events Page.
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Mental Health in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
July 15, 2021 | Watch the Recording
Listen to NIH Tribal Health Research Office Director David R. Wilson, Ph.D., and National Institute of Mental Health Director Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., discuss current issues related to mental health in American Indian and Alaska Native communities, including the impacts of COVID-19, the importance of suicide prevention, and NIH research and resources.
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