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URI Academic Health Collaborative Director Elizabeth Roberts
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, perhaps more than any other period in recent history, the critical importance of the healthcare system, and the need for a multidisciplinary approach to health care and public health.
The University of Rhode Island Academic Health Collaborative s mission is to bring together students, faculty, clinicians and researchers engaged in interdisciplinary work in the health sciences. Its director, Elizabeth Roberts, has extensive experience in several areas of the healthcare system, and shares the collaborative s mission to bring together students and faculty members from multiple disciplines to learn, research and train together.
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With the arrival of the COVID vaccine in December, people across the country and around the world could finally begin to see a light at the end of the tunnel. But the end is not here yet. Between the approval of various vaccines and the possible eradication of the disease itself, there is much to do.
What does history tell us about previous mass vaccination efforts? Who gets the vaccine and when? Once vaccinated, do those vaccinated have different rights and freedoms from other people? Why is close to half the population hesitant to get vaccinated? When will herd immunity be achieved?