Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Vacunas para todos: National Hispanic Network to Increase Vaccination Coverage and Reduce Disparities - National Alliance for Hispanic Health • Response to CDC RFA IP21-2106) • Project Abstract Project Abstract CDC RFA IP21-2106 Vacunas represents a powerful science based and community-driven response to disparities in vaccination. Many factors including distrust and lack of credible information remain major barriers to vaccination. For the 2019-2020 season, flu vaccine rates among all racial and ethnic groups were lowest for Hispanics (38%) compared non-Hispanic Whites (52%). Furthermore, compared to non-Hispanic Whites, the Hispanic rate of COVID-19 cases is 1.7 times higher, hospitalization is 4.1 times higher, and deaths are 2.8 times higher. At the same time, a little over one third (37%) of Hispanic adults report that they do not intend to get a COVID-19 vaccine. In response to lower rates of adult influenza vaccination and distrust of COVID-19 vaccination in Hispanic communities, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health (the Alliance) will establish the Vacunas para todos: National Hispanic Network to Increase Vaccination Coverage and Reduce Disparities as a rapid response infrastructure to meet emerging national and local needs to (1) increase acceptance of approved flu and COVID-19 vaccination among Hispanics, and (2) increase access to approved flu and COVID-19 culturally and linguistically proficient immunization services in Hispanic communities and other underserved populations. The Vacunas network will build on the Alliance’s decades of work developing and delivering evidence-based interventions to increase vaccination across the lifespan; our network of trusted community-based health and human services organizations (CBOs) that deliver services to over 15 million persons annually; our member network of national, state, and local partners across key sectors including health system and governmental; and, our Hispanic research network, including the Alliance’s Healthy Americas Institute at the USC Keck School of Medicine. The Alliance will leverage its national network of Alliance affiliated members and partners to advance educational efforts, enhance the resource and evidence base, deliver data and insights on vaccine uptake, equip influential and authentic messengers, and increase community vaccination opportunities and provider partnerships. A key part of Vacunas will be tailored programs led by subrecipient CBOs providing culturally and linguistically proficient in seventeen communities. California Mexican American Opportunity Foundation, Los Angeles, CA La Clínica de la Raza, Oakland, CA Family Health Centers of San Diego, CA San Ysidro Health, San Ysidro, CA Salud Para la Gente, Watsonville, CA Colorado Clinica Tepeyac, Denver, CO Florida Miami Beach Community Health Center, Miami, FL Hispanic Federation, Orlando, FL Illinois Hispanic Health Coalition, Chicago, IL Nebraska OneWorld Community Health Centers, Omaha, NE Texas Brownsville Community Health Center Brownsville, TX The Concilio, Dallas, TX Project VIDA, El Paso, TX Comunilife Health Centers, San Antonio, TX Pennsylvania La Comunidad Hispana, Kennett Square, PA New York Urban Health Plan, Bronx, NY Washington Tri-Cities Community Health, Pasco, WA The CBOs were chosen for capacity to deliver the proposed effort and the communities reflect the distribution of major Hispanic population centers and COVID-19 impact areas, diversity of Hispanic subpopulations, mix of rural and urban centers, and the need to reach to essential workers in food provision (agricultural field workers and meat processing plant workers).
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