COVID Vaccine: Personal & Professional Perspectives Within African American and Latino Communities

The Children’s Study Home (CSH), in partnership with the Public Health Institute of Western, MA is hosting a virtual panel discussion, The COVID Vaccine: Personal & Professional Perspectives Within African American and Latino Communities, on Friday, March 5, 2021 at 12 p.m. ET.

As an employer of a culturally diverse team of mostly direct care/frontline staff, The Children’s Study Home is concerned about the relatively low participation by communities of color in receiving the vaccine.  We believe it is important to respect the decisions of individuals who wish not to receive a treatment that they either have trust or efficacy concerns about.  But as a long-serving member of this community, we also believe we have an obligation to help our staff and fellow community members to make informed decisions.  So, we have assembled a panel discussion for and by people of color. This includes two Latino and two African American community leaders in social services, medicine, and public health:

• Ronn Johnson, M.Ed., President/CEO, Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Services Inc.
• Sarah Perez McAdoo, MD, MPH, Population Health Capstone Director, University of Massachusetts Medical School–Baystate
• Miguel Rodriguez, MD, Pulmonologist, Holyoke Medical Center
• Frank Robinson, PhD, Vice President, Public Health for Baystate Health

This panel discussion will be moderated by Jessica Collins, MS, Executive Director of the Public Health Institute of Western MA.  Dr. William Dávila, Ed.D., LICSW, will host the event on behalf of The Children’s Study Home.

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