Filmmaker Kevin Epps and Dr. Kim Rhoads on Getting Underserved Communities Vaccinated
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🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:56.6 | From KQED. |
| 0:59.1 | Welcome back to Forum. I'm Brian Watt. From misinformation at the start of the pandemic to vaccine |
| 1:06.1 | hesitancy now, the black community has battled through extra layers of COVID-19, and that is why Umoja Health, |
| 1:14.5 | a partnership that includes a dozen nonprofit organizations, UCSF, and public health departments, |
| 1:21.2 | stepped in. Working together, this group leveraged community activism to bring testing and vaccinations |
| 1:27.0 | to underserved neighborhoods. |
| 1:28.5 | And we're going to talk about these efforts now with Dr. Kim Rhodes, Associate Director |
| 1:34.2 | for Community Engagement at the UCSF Cancer Center, and Kevin Epps, filmmaker, documentary |
| 1:40.6 | filmmaker extraordinaire from San Francisco. He made straight out of |
| 1:45.2 | Hunter's Point and he's a community organizer, other films as well, community |
| 1:50.2 | organizer with you, Moja Health. Welcome to both of you. Thanks for having me. You |
| 1:57.2 | are welcome. We're glad to have both of you and we also want to know from you, everyone listening, if you have been reluctant to get vaccinated, if you feel like you've been misinformed about COVID-19, can you please give us a call at 866-733-6786-86-86-76-733--733-6-7-866. |
| 2:20.3 | Do we have Dr. Rhodes? |
| 2:24.3 | I want to make sure you're with us. |
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