$500,000 grant awarded to increase COVID-19 Vaccination rates

The Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR) recently received $500,000 from the CDC to investigate solutions that will increase confidence in COVID-19 vaccines and ultimately increase uptake.

The grant is a supplement to the work CHPPR is already doing as a CDCPrevention Research Centers（PRCS）. The CDC PRCs are a network of 26 centers across the United States focused on the study of chronic disease prevention, particularly among underserved populations. CHPPR has been focusing on increasing rates of COVID-19 testing through a NIHRapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Underserved Populations(RADxUP) grant that wasfunded last Fall.

有了这个新的机会，CHPPR调查人员将使用社区参与的方法在优先领域收集数据，开发多层干预措施并评估社区参与策略的有效性和力量，从而扩展到Covid-19测试超出Covid-19测试到Covid-19疫苗的吸收。

“I am looking forward to collaborating with the other Prevention Research Centers on this initiative through the CDC’s Connecting Behavioral Science to COVID-19 Vaccine Demand (CBS-CVD) Network,” saidMaria E. Fernandez, PhD, principal investigator for the project. “Having this network will allow us to learn and share with others to effectively translate best practices from behavioral science to improve immunization programming.”

Maria E. Fernandez, PhD and Paula Cuccaro, PhD are multi-Principal Investigators on this project. This is a one-year grant which will run from May 11, 2021 – May 10, 2022.