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Engaging Community Members To Learn About Vaccine Hesitancy |
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 To help address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, the DMV CEAL team recruited and trained more than 100 community members to become motivational interviewing (MI) facilitators. MI is a conversational approach that helps build rapport, keeps a conversation flowing, and encourages people to think differently. Facilitators have reported that some friends, family, and peers that they spoke with received a COVID-19 vaccine after their conversations.
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Study shows COVID-19 vaccine appears safe for children after MIS-C
An NIH-funded study looked at children and adolescents with a history of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) to see if they are at increased risk of adverse reactions from COVID-19 vaccination. The researchers found no reports of serious complications including myocarditis or MIS-C reoccurrence. The results show that about half of participants experienced typical and minor adverse reactions, such as arm soreness and fatigue.
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Apply for the 2023 Health Disparities Research Institute
NIMHD’s Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI), which supports career development of promising early-career minority health and health disparities research scientists, takes place August 7-11, 2023. Participants will meet scientists from across NIH Institutes and Centers engaged in related health disparities research. The application period is open from February 6 to March 13.
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Latino Health Access partners with Southern California communities
Read how Latino Health Access (LHA) partnered with local clinics to bring COVID-19 testing, education, and vaccines to some of Orange County’s hard-hit Hispanic/Latino communities. LHA held vaccination clinics at parks, apartment complexes, and churches and even created a vaccination float. They also worked with local promotores to provide health education and transported older adults to and from clinics.
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Funding opportunity for community-engaged and health equity researchers
Submit an application to the IMPROVE Community Implementation Program (IMPROVE-CIP) to develop and test community-based implementation strategies. These strategies will inform integrated efforts to increase adoption, uptake, scale-up, and scale-out of evidence-based interventions that improve pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, perinatal, and postpartum care and advance maternal health and maternal health equity in disproportionately impacted and underserved communities. Proposals received by 6 p.m. ET on February 17, 2023, will be reviewed by April 14, 2023. Proposals received after February 17 will be reviewed on an ad hoc basis.
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Events and 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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How the "Middle" Moves: Black and Latino Parents on Childhood COVID Vaccines
Jan. 24, 1:30 p.m. ET | Register for free
Join the New York CEAL team in a webinar where researchers will discuss findings from a study on Black and Hispanic/Latino parents’ opinions on COVID-19 vaccinations for their children in the Harlem community.
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CEACR Speaker Series: Caring for the Caregivers in Community-Partnered Research: Considerations for Research Reciprocity
Jan. 27, 1-2 p.m. ET | Register here
This month’s CECAR Speaker Series will focus on the individual and collective experiences of burnout in public health spaces. A roundtable will be held to discuss ways caregivers can help each other navigate the year ahead. Registration is required to attend.
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