CAPS/PRC Town Hall, I&I Core and CE Core present: Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH & Gregg Gonsalves, PhD -- Of Hesitancy and Harm Reduction

Part III in a Series hosted by the CAPS Intervention and Implementation Science Core in collaboration with the CAPS Community Engagement Core:

Series Title: Laying Foundations of Trust: Moving Towards Health Equity

This series aims  to explore some core social and behavioral aspects of trust and engagement with public health measures in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, with an eye towards lessons from HIV work, in order to stimulate programmatic and research agendas that promote health equity.

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Of Hesitancy and Harm Reduction 

This set of presentations and discussion will focus on the need to “reach people where they are” with respect to promotion of public health guidance, for example, by understanding vaccine hesitancy as it relates to medical mistrust, and by engaging the debate between public health absolutism and harm reduction in the COVID context.