The AAMC Center for Health Justice’s “Building Trust and Confidence Through Partnerships” grant has been awarded to five teams of collaborating partners, each led by an AAMC-member institution. The grants support the use of effective partnerships—often including public health departments, social services agencies, and faith-based and community-based organizations—to build vaccine confidence and trust within local communities, with the goal of increasing the number of people who receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
The communities that will benefit from this work over the next 12 months are:
- Bronx, NY: led by Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Detroit, MI: led by Henry Ford Health System
- Nashville/Davidson County, TN: led by Meharry Medical College
- Cincinnati, OH: led by University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- Spokane County, WA: led by Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
The grant program is supported through an AAMC cooperative agreement with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
We look forward to following the advances these teams make over the next year.