Webinar: Rethinking vaccine confidence: Supporting uptake through equitable community responses (2021)
Date: June 21, 2021
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In this conversational webinar, panelists share the challenges, lessons and strategies they’ve heard from communities across Canada to improve vaccine uptake and ensure accessible, equitable and community-informed vaccine roll-out.
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Speakers:
• Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh, Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist, NCCDH ([ Ссылка ])
• Claire O’Gorman, Knowledge Translation Specialist, NCCDH ([ Ссылка ])
• Dr. Stephanie Montesanti, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta ([ Ссылка ])
• Angela Robertson, Executive Director, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre ([ Ссылка ])
PART 1: Introduction
PART 2: What is vaccine equity?
PART 3: Structural factors
PART 4: Examples of what is being done
PART 5: Engagement strategies
Agenda:
PART 1: Introduction
• Host
• Land acknowledgement
• Format of webinar
o Questions submitted by attendees during registration
o Background on vaccine confidence
o Questions from participants on call
• Speaker introductions
PART 2: What is vaccine equity?
Question:
Canadians’ COVID-19 vaccine confidence has improved over time, but significant inequities in vaccine uptake remain. Communities with the highest health and social burden of COVID-19 are also those with the lowest levels of vaccine access and uptake. What is it that we mean by vaccine equity?
PART 3: Structural factors
Question:
Most of the public discourse centres on vaccine hesitancy. What are some of the structural factors at play when it comes to reasons for hesitancy in communities you’ve heard from?
• Being vaccine hesitant vs being antivax
• Historical precedent for vaccine campaigns/health system exploiting racialized communities
• Active disinformation versus unintentional misinformation
• Misalignment of values between policymakers and communities
• Vaccine deployment in communities for the wrong reasons
• Racist framing
PART 4: Examples of what is being done
Question:
Where equity-based responses are being adopted, communities are successfully seeing improvements in uptake. What strategies help improve vaccine access in the communities you’re working with?
• Rural, remote and Northern communities
• Importance of community engagement
• Community health centre responses
• Vaccines moving at “the speed of trust”
• Community ownership and leadership
• Community-specific education efforts
• Role of Black communities in developing the COVID-19 vaccine
• Low-barrier solutions for people experiencing precarious housing and homelessness
• Working with paid peer support workers
• Who is asked to line up (without guaranteed access to the resource at the end of their wait) verses who gets to make an appointment
• Eliminating/negotiating police presence at vaccine clinics
PART 5: Engagement strategies
Question:
Are there any suggestions for how to make connections within communities facing barriers?
• Working with local community partners
• Deep local, hyperlocal strategies
• Being responsive to specific communities; challenging standardization
• Step back and let communities lead
For more information, contact us at nccdh@stfx.ca.
