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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Global Health Innovation (CGHI) has spearheaded community-driven efforts to combat misinformation and mistrust and provide actionable guidance in the neighborhoods and communities that need it most. Through a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), as part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Center is now building on this outreach work by implementing its Vaccine Access and Training (VAT) program across seven states.
The primary goal of the VAT program is to work with under-vaccinated, underserved communities to promote confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine and increase COVID-19 vaccination rates. To achieve this goal, CGHI has leveraged its partner network and collaborative strategies to bring together an ecosystem of community health workers (CHWs), local clinics, health professionals, community-based organizations, public health experts and corporate partners in communities across Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, and Texas.
The outreach model is based on CGHI’s health equity principles and centered on the community health worker. CGHI surrounds the community health worker with a support system that includes training, access to health resources and partnerships with local health providers.
To find out more contact us at programs@cghi.org
Addressing vaccine hesitancy through personal stories
Up-to-date relevant resources to assist public health workers, healthcare professionals, and community health workers in improving COVID-19 vaccination rates.
This social media toolkit aims to equip CHWs with culturally appropriate social media strategies to address low COVID-19 vaccination rates in their community.
Este conjunto de herramientas para redes sociales tiene como objetivo equipar a los trabajadores comunitarios de la salud con estrategias, culturalmente apropiadas, para abordar las bajas tasas de vacunación contra el COVID-19 en sus comunidades.
VAT project partners include Urban Strategies, Johns Hopkins University, Emory University, the Detroit Association of Black Organizations, Georgia College Rural Studies Institute, Association of Immunization Managers, Pima County Health Department, Lukan Group, Microsoft, Walmart, Sharecare, Wellstar Health System, and National Association of County and City Health Officials.
OFFICE OF HEALTH EQUITY
AND CRISIS COORDINATION
GHC3 is now the Office of Health Equity and Crisis Coordination, a division of the Center for Global Health Innovation (CGHI). The Center for Global Health Innovation is an Atlanta-based 501(c)3 organization launched in 2019 to bring together diverse Global Health, Health Technology and Life Sciences entities to collaborate, innovate and activate solutions to enhance human health outcomes around the world. At its core, CGHI will orchestrate programs that promote cross discipline cooperation to strengthen capabilities, accelerate problem solving and respond to global health crises. The Center will continue to support its subsidiary organizations, Georgia Bio and Georgia Global Health Alliance and is standing up a permanent Global Health Crisis Coordination Center to bringing to bear the best private sector and public sector capabilities and experience in times of need.