Give It Your Best Shot: Reaching the Vaccine-Hesitant Young. Nearly 25 percent of young adults are hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccination, putting them at risk for severe disease.
How can public health officials reach adolescents and young adults?
What messages in social media and elsewhere resonate with them?
How are journalists reaching younger audiences?
For this online event, the Pulitzer Center and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health convene journalists from the CNN/BBC documentary Race for the Vaccine and public health experts to discuss opportunities and pitfalls in this pandemic communication challenge.
Speakers include:
Medical journalist Caleb Hellerman, director of Race for the Vaccine.
Award-winning filmmaker Janet Tobias, executive producer of Race for the Vaccine.
Johns Hopkins experts:
Rupali Limaye, director of Behavioral and Implementation Science, International Vaccine Access Center
Nick Moran, associate director of Audience Development, Johns H