Hello all- The Public Health Essentials curriculum was developed by the Cornell Master of Public Health program. Cornell Cooperative Extension is funded through the USDA to offer the curriculum within our system as a mechanism to build public health workforce capacity locally in rural New York State. Additionally, this is being utilized by some EXCITE teams. Details can be found here: Public Health Essentials - eCornellRead More...

The Virginia Cooperative Extension EXCITE Team and the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) conducted a symposium with Extension Agents for them to learn more about the EXCITE project funded through CDC and ways that they can get involved in vaccine education! This session introduced our vaccine ambassadors and their roles in their respective localities, provided background on adult vaccinations and the current vaccination schedule, and discussed approaches to communicating vaccine...Read More...

For a full list of events related to vaccine equity conducted by partners, check out https://vaccineequity.urban. org/events/calendarRead More...

New Respiratory Illnesses collection is translated, customizable, and ready for Afghan communities The National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants (NRC-RIM) last week released translated and customizable health education materials addressing respiratory illnesses that are more common during the colder months, including the common cold, influenza, RSV, and COVID-19. Print, social media, audio, and video resources are currently available for distribution to Afghan newcomers...Read More...

Hello! I'm wondering if anyone has come across vaccine education materials for those individuals in recovery from drugs and alcohol. Thank you, Abby Gold University of MinnesotaRead More...

A discussion that was held with some of my teams recently revolved around if there were ways in which to determine impact. Basically, if any teams have come up with a way in which to measure whether the work that they are doing is actually resulting in people following through on receiving their needed vaccines. For some events, this is simple as vaccines are offered onsite and in conjunction. For other events, this correlation is not as simple to determine. There was discussion about adding...Read More...

Hi all, in addition to sharing assets for social media, one team suggested sharing social media handles for example to perhaps re-post each other's content. In that vein, would you share your social media handles in this thread?Read More...

Hi there! Just browsing through Connect and found this subgroup; figured I'd join from Maryland. We are a small team here, working together on Phase 4/Implementation phase to address adult vaccine hesitancy in two ways. For one, we're by addressing cultural competency and communication skills among healthcare workers (specifically among providers and personnel within rural community-based health care centers or health departments). In two demographically different rural regions in Maryland,...Read More...

This board contains resources that come across our desks that may not make it into the newsletter, and for others to share as well! Here we'll post things related to overall adult vaccination messaging and other general resources.Read More...

Hi all - we get a lot of resources across our "desks" that don't always make it into the newsletter. Here's a spot for everyone to share directly. This is the board for Flu; check other posts/threads for other individual vaccinations and overall resources.Read More...

Hi all - we get a lot of resources across our "desks" that don't always make it into the newsletter. Here's a spot for everyone to share directly. I'm trying to create separate boards for COVID, flu, and other vaccines, and we can re-organize as needed.Read More...