AUCD Webinar Alert:
Promoting Vaccine Confidence in Neurodivergent Communities: Lessons Learned from Stakeholder Engagement and Social Media Outreach
Thursday, August 26, 2021
2:00 p.m. ET – 3:00 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom Meeting
Webinar Description
This webinar will present lessons learned from a project that seeks to promote vaccine confidence in the disability community during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this student-driven project, supported by an AUCD-CDC Dissemination Innovation Mini-grant, students and trainees from UCLA and LA COVID volunteers conducted a stakeholder engagement strategy to inform communication and dissemination efforts to promote vaccine confidence. Since May 2021, students have been interviewing individuals with disabilities and their families, direct service providers, and public health experts to understand strategies for promoting COVID-19 vaccine uptake and access and overall health and well-being for the disability community. They have subsequently advanced a social media strategy-under guidance from Hood Medicine- to disseminate their findings and engage the community. This webinar will focus on insights gleaned from these efforts.
Lessons Learned:
- Self-advocates and family members
- Public health professionals
- Direct service professionals
- Using social media to disseminate public health messages
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