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Chicago, Jan. 26, 2021 -- NCSBN has joined the COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Equity Project in working to provide information about the clinical trials

As thousands of pharmacies get shipments of doses and start vaccinations at their stores this week, the country is taking a significant step toward reaching more Americans. Public health officials and advocates, however, say that wont go far enough in communities where people have been the sickest. More Black and Hispanic Americans have been hospitalized and died from Covid-19. They often face bigger barriers to get vaccine, too: A lack of transportation. A juggle of multiple jobs. Hesitance be...

U leaders lay out five-year diversity goals.

What Is Vaccine Equity? Why Global Citizens Should Care Vaccine equity — the equitable distribution of vaccines worldwide — is essential to ending infectious diseases that spread rapidly between countries. The United Nations’ Global Goal 3 calls for good health and well-being for all, which cannot be achieved if countries adopt a mentality of vaccine nationalism rather than supporting the global response. You can join us in taking action on this issue here. Within a year of the first re...

(Originally posted Jan. 25 on Elon University’s Today at Elon website) Six leading North Carolina media organizations have joined the NC Local News Workshop at Elon University in a pilot project aiming to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in news and public affairs information for the state’s residents. The NC Media Equity Project will include: ABC11/WTVD-TV in the Raleigh-Durham area; statewide education policy and news outlet EducationNC; North Carolina’s two largest newspapers (...

Screenshot from meeting Community members called for truly affordable housing, diversity in town leadership and on the slopes, and for Breckenridge to “do something bold” to make the town more welcoming for people of all races Wednesday, Jan. 27, at a community listening session. The town organized the meeting to help create a blueprint for the new Social Equity Advisory Commission, which Breckenridge Town Council member Carol Saade said was created because the town is “committed to meani...

Share: Share this page on Twitter Share this page on LinkedIn Email this page to a friend Print this page Six leading North Carolina media organizations have joined the NC Local News Workshop at Elon University in a pilot project aiming to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in news and public affairs information for the state’s residents. The NC Media Equity Project will include: ABC11/WTVD-TV in the Raleigh-Durham area; statewide education policy and news out...

Flu Fighters combat vaccination fears in New Haven Sujata Srinivasan, Conn. Health I-Team Writer Dec. 16, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Sharon Stevens, right, director of Women of the Village Food Pantry, reaches for a flier to give to a client picking up food at the Dixwell neighborhood food pantry providing information about the flu vaccine.Conn. Health I-Team / Cloe PoissonShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Sharon Stevens, director of Women of the Village Food Pantry, asks a client picking up food a...

Flu Fighters Combat Vaccination Fears in New Haven Cloe Poisson Photo Sharon Stevens, director of Women of the Village Food Pantry, asks a client picking up food at the Dixwell neighborhood food pantry if they have gotten the flu vaccine yet. Stevens is one of several outreach workers helping to encourage New Haven residents to get the vaccine. On a recent Friday evening, 30 men and women of color in and around New Haven converged on Zoom to share their thoughts about the flu vaccine. Mo...

Many innocent people. joining me now, most of the michael knowles show on the daily wire and wendy, a professor and founder of the 1954 equity project. thank you both for coming, good to see you both. i want to continue if i can with this piece that sue bird wrote in "the players tribune," which is really kind of a magazine geared towards younger soccer players and she goes on to say this. she says, "you got all these crazy blogs writing terrible things about this person you care so much about, ...