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CEAL Debuts Scientific Pathway to Showcase Diversity
April 5, 2021 | Announcement
Safety always guides the scientific pathway toward vaccines and treatments. And at each step on the pathway are people like us – a diverse group of people. Learn what people on the pathway have to say about COVID-19 vaccines in their own words.
Explore the Scientific PathwayRethink how we plan research to shrink COVID health disparities
February 2, 2021 | nature
Barber shops, churches, libraries — that’s where researchers must go to tackle inequity. As many nations mark a year of deaths from COVID-19, all must reflect on a shaming fact: minority racial and ethnic communities have lost the most.
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U-M Receives $1.4M in NIH Funding to expand COVID-19 outreach
3/31/21 | University of Michigan
Rethink how we plan research to shrink COVID health disparities
2/2/21 | nature
A Talk about vaccines with Dr. Gary Gibbons Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at National Institutes of Health
2/2/21 | Heart & Soul
COVID, pre-existing conditions, vaccines and what keeps Dr. Gary Gibbons of NIH up at night
1/26/21 I Black News Channel
'Trusted Messengers, Trusted Messages': How To Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy
12/24/20 | NPR
Many Black Americans don't trust a COVID-19 vaccine. It's important to understand why.
12/8/20 | Today
Medical experts hoping to build coronavirus vaccine trust among Florida minorities
12/8/20 | WPTV, Florida
Tulane receives $1 million NIH grant to engage communities hardest hit by COVID-19
12/7/20 | Tulane News, Louisiana
Amid history of mistreatment, doctors struggle to sell Black Americans on coronavirus vaccine
12/7/20 | Washington Post (paywall)
Tallahassee COVID-19 vaccine trial participant shares her journey
11/25/20 | WTXL Tallahassee, Florida
A University of Miami Miller School of Medicine team will lead a statewide collaborative outreach program to engage ethnic and racial minority communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
11/25/20 | UHealth: University of Miami Health System, Florida
Receives Grant: Northsider to Oversee Grant Focused on Outreach in Communities Heavily Affected By COVID
11/19/20 | The Northside Sun, Mississippi
Knocking down the COVID-19 disparities through university community partnerships
11/19/20 | The Daily Wildcat, Arizona
The Power of Trust and Truth
11/17/20 | CEAL Op Ed
Florida universities, health centers collaborate on COVID-19 outreach to minority communities
11/16/20 | UF Health, Florida
NIH funds community engagement research efforts
9/16/20 | NHLBI press release
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