Community engagement in HIV trials guides equity for COVID-19 vaccine studies
New study highlights longstanding barriers to diversity in prior decade of vaccine trials, despite federal guidelines February 19, 2021 • By Sabin Russell / Fred Hutch News Service The Tampa, Florida-based Bible-Based Fellowship Church encouraged members of the African American community to receive COVID-19 vaccines, organizing clinics in partnership with the county health department. Photo by Octavio Jones / Getty Images
Editor s update: On March 31, the New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial co-authored by Andrasik about addressing vaccine hesitancy in communities of color and the efforts of the COVID-19 Prevention Network.
For more than a decade, psychologist Dr. Michele Andrasik has been working in Seattle on ways to increase opportunities for underrepresented minorities at risk for HIV to participate in clinical trials