Ask Me Anything": Lessons learned in implementing a COVID-19 vaccine information initiative in Massachusetts jails

Parsa Erfani; Raquel Sofia Sandoval; Katherine M Rich; Ayotomiwa Ojo; Liz Walker; Gloria White-Hammond; Eugene Lambert; Alysse Wurcel

doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.018

Ask Me Anything": Lessons learned in implementing a COVID-19 vaccine information initiative in Massachusetts jails

Vaccine. 2022 May 11;40(22):2981-2983. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.018. Epub 2022 Apr 8.

Authors

Parsa Erfani¹, Raquel Sofia Sandoval², Katherine M Rich¹, Ayotomiwa Ojo², Liz Walker³, Gloria White-Hammond⁴, Eugene Lambert⁵, Alysse Wurcel⁶

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard Kennedy School, Boston, MA, United States.
³ Roxbury Presbyterian Church, Boston, MA, United States.
⁴ Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, United States; Harvard Divinity School, Boston, MA, United States.
⁵ Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
⁶ Tufts Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA, United States; Tufts University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Boston, MA, United States; Infectious Diseases Liaison, Massachusetts Sheriffs Association, Boston, MA, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

As a group of medical professionals, faith-community leaders, and jail staff, we launched a COVID-19 vaccine Q&A initiative across Massachusetts county jails to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake among detained individuals. Here we describe the lessons learned in developing and implementing this initiative.

Keywords: COVID-19; Correctional facilities; Jails; Prisons; Vaccines.

Published by Elsevier Ltd.

MeSH terms

COVID-19 Vaccines
COVID-19* / prevention & control
Humans
Jails
Massachusetts
Prisoners*

Substances

COVID-19 Vaccines

Abstract

MeSH terms

Substances

Grants and funding