230 - COVID-19 Vaccines and the Opportunity to Build Trust Between Health Care Institutions and the Black Community
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Helping members of the Black community get the information they need in order to trust COVID-19 vaccines is a daunting task. But it's also an opportunity to invest in the health and wellbeing of Black people. Rev. Dr. Terris King, pastor of Liberty Grace Church of God in Baltimore and former Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services minority health director, and Hopkins immunization policy expert Lois Privor-Dumm, talk with Stephanie Desmon about the opportunities the pandemic has brought forth to build bridges between health institutions and the Black community.
KEYWORDS: health equity; racial disparity; health communication
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
| 0:22.4 | and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists, |
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| 0:41.1 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.1 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Pastor Terris King of Baltimore's Liberty Grace Church |
| 0:52.3 | of God and Lois Prevordum, a senior advisor at Johns Hopkins International |
| 0:57.3 | Vaccine Access Center. They discussed the challenges of building trust for a COVID vaccine in the |
| 1:03.1 | Black community, which has been hard hit by the pandemic. Let's listen. Pastor Teres King and Lois |
| 1:09.6 | Prevordaum, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:11.9 | Thank you. Thank you. So today I want to talk to you about building trust for vaccines |
| 1:17.8 | in the black community. I know that you are working in Baltimore to try to make sure that |
| 1:23.9 | folks are going to be receptive to a COVID vaccine. |
| 1:28.2 | I'd like to start with you, Lois, and talk to you about people of color are far more likely to die of COVID. |
| 1:33.6 | And they also seem to be reluctant to receive a vaccine. |
| 1:36.5 | Could you talk to me a little bit about what that means? |
| 1:39.1 | Thanks, Stephanie, and thanks for having me. |
| 1:41.5 | You know, it's really funny because you would think that people automatically would want to take a vaccine, knowing that they are at higher risk. |
| 1:50.4 | But we're finding that that's not the case, that there's a lot of distrust and hesitancy within the community. |
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