TORONTO A coalition of COVID-19 task forces and doctors serving racialized and ethnic communities across Canada have banded together to launch the âThis is our Shotâ campaign, aiming to battle vaccine hesitancy and encourage Canadians to get inoculated. The organizations behind the movement, which include the South Asian COVID Task Force, Siksika Health Services, The Canadian Muslim COVID-19 Task Force and the Black Health Initiative, created the campaign out of a desire to make sure public health messaging was getting through to underserved communities. âWe had this perspective of using our community connections, our knowledge of our cultures to help get the prevailing public health messaging out, both through traditional media, cultural ethnic mediums and through digital mediums that we know that our communities partake in,â said campaigner and trauma and emergency physician at Hamilton Health Sciences Dr. Dashminder Singh Sehdev in a telephone inte
How churches, community-based organizations have stepped up to vaccinate communities of color
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Pastor Victor Garcia and his wife Milagro hold their vaccination cards after receiving the J&J vaccine at their Iglesia Fuente De Salvacion Church on Saturday, April 10, 2021 in San Pablo, Calif.Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle
Roxana Ramos went to church Saturday, but more for physical health than the spiritual solace typically associated with houses of worship. Along with about 400 other people, the 36-year-old Richmond domestic worker was able to get her coronavirus vaccination at Iglesia Fuente de Salvacion in San Pablo.
Ramos learned of the church’s clinic from a friend who attends Iglesia Fuente de Salvacion, after a disappointing realization that she was not eligible by age or employment category when she tried to sign up for a vaccination with Kaiser. To get a slot at the church, all Ramos had to do was call.
Donna Kinnair
The chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing has been appointed as a non-executive director for the newly created NHS Race and Health Observatory.
Dame Donna Kinnair (pictured above) will sit on the board alongside 14 other members who together were described as being some of the world’s leading experts on the subject of health inequalities.
“This work is vitally important and I am honoured to contribute in any way I can
Donna Kinnair
Other members include Professor Sir Michael Marmot, who authored the landmark Marmot Review into health inequalities in 2010, which was updated in 2020, and Lord Victor Adebowale, former chief executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point and now chair of NHS Confederation.