QUESTION
How is the agency addressing disparities in vaccination rates among different demographic groups?
0:53:21
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The agency addresses vaccination disparities through strategic outreach and leveraging community partnerships to improve vaccination rates among various demographic groups.
- Community partnerships and collaborations with other agencies, like the Department of Education, are essential in delivering targeted messages.
- Engagements with community leaders and healthcare providers are emphasized to enhance vaccine advocacy.
- Special emphasis is placed on vaccinating four to six-year-olds for school requirements, including MMR vaccines.
- Back-to-school campaigns and reminders for vaccinations during spring break or before summer travels are key strategies, especially for areas with higher measles risks.
Francisco P. Moya
0:53:21
So so how does how does the agency plan address these disparities in the vaccination rates across the different demographic groups, which we talked about in the city, and are there targeted outreach and campaigns for particular populations, especially amongst those that continue to experience medical stigma and discrimination.
Dr. Celia Quinn
0:53:43
Yeah.
0:53:44
I appreciate the question.
0:53:45
So as I think people here certainly appreciate, when it comes to information about seen the messenger can be as important as the message.
0:53:53
And so we really do need to leverage all of our community partnerships, other agencies like Department of Education, community leaders like yourself to really get the message out and then the work that we're doing with providers to make sure that they have the you know, information about talking to families and getting them up to date as well, how they leverage our CIR to really make their practices vaccine champions.
0:54:15
So though that's all the types of work that we're doing, especially for the four to six year olds in terms of, like, that school requirements and getting caught up on MMR.
0:54:25
We are really we do our back to school campaign.
0:54:28
We're also doing a push with DOE like, this week and next week to try to remind people to try to get these vaccines while they're on spring break or in advance of any summer travel, in particular, to says outside of the US word measles may be circulating.
0:54:43
So that's the type of work that we're doing.
0:54:47
Yeah.
0:54:48
I mean, I think it's it's definitely definitely, like, a a lot everyone is invited to the champion vaccine market.
Francisco P. Moya
0:54:54
Well, and I'll end it with this.