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.

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