Communication: Promising practices for reducing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and disseminating accessible messages

Wednesday, April 7, 2021
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom Webinar

Join our organizations, state-level jurisdictions, and CDC guests to hear about promising practices on how states are reaching people with disabilities. This webinar addressed promising practices in communication for reducing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and disseminating accessible messages.

Speakers

  • Mya W. Lewis, I/DD & TBI Section Chief Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and, Substance Abuse Service, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
  • Julie Foster Hagan, Assistant Secretary, Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities, Louisiana Department of Health
  • Valerie Huhn, Deputy Director, Missouri Department of Mental Health; Director, Division of Developmental Disabilities
  • Kerri Tesreau, Assistant Director, Missouri Department of Mental Health; Director, Division of Developmental Disabilities
  • Becky Reitzes, Co-Lead and Program Manager for King County's COVID-19 Speakers' Bureau, Public Health - Seattle & King County
  • Alice Frame, Pronouns: she, her, hers (What's this?) Program Coordinator, Disability Health Program, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
  • Jolene Sharp (she/her/hers)| Chief Public Information Officer, Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities


Moderator

  • Sara Lyons, Senior Program Analyst, Health and Disability, NACCHO

 




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