The big worry hanging over vaccination: Getting people to the clinics

On December 27, 2020, Center Director Dr. Lisa Cooper was interviewed by Joanne Kenen at Politico on ‘The big worry hanging over vaccination: Getting people to the clinics’.

The first challenge to a successful immunization program is building trust. The second requires overcoming a whole other set of barriers linked to poverty, structural racism and social conditions that have contributed to poorer health for poor and minority communities long before the pandemic.

“Community health workers are going to be key” to both trust-building and vaccination, said Lisa Cooper, a Johns Hopkins University physician and professor who directs both the school’s Center for Health Equity and its Urban Health Institute. “They can reach people where they are.

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