The Power of Partnership: NYCEAL Collaborations With Health Agencies and Mobile Vaccination Vans
Rita Larson1, Sarah Hussain1, Michelle M Chau1
1Rita Larson, Sarah Hussain, Michelle M. Chau, Nadia Islam, and Chau Trinh-Shevrin are with the Department of Population Health, New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, New York. Andrew Jones is with the Arab-American Family Support Center in Brooklyn, NY. Nita Vangeepuram is with the Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health Science and Policy, Institute for Health Equity Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Devin Madden and Timnit Berhane are with the Office of Gender Equity, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Saskia Shuman is with the Institute for Family Health, New York, NY.
Abstract:
New York City experienced a high COVID-19 burden and striking disparities among racial and ethnic minoritized groups. The New York Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities (NYCEAL) collaborated with health agencies and clinical providers to increase and facilitate COVID-19 vaccinations across New York City. NYCEAL partners and their network of hundreds of community health workers delivered vaccine education, fostered community trust, and supported vaccine uptake among low-income, limited‒English-proficient, and racial and ethnic minoritized communities. With funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the objective of NYCEAL was to reduce COVID-19 disparities by increasing vaccine uptake and promoting trust in science. (Am J Public Health. 2024;114(S1):S92-S95. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307455).
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