Event Type : COVID-19

Vaccinating is a no-brainer for most parents. Why then, are some parents unable to see facts as facts? All decisions are based in fear, anxiety, and our natural tendency to cherry-pick facts that fit with our pre-formed beliefs. People are hard-wired to be curious and want to discover, but some seek to be correct over being accurate. As advocates and educators, we need to be sensitive to parents’ motivations for rejecting science and frame our communication around the psychological roots of their beliefs. We aren’t fighting a losing battle if we can learn to effectively communicate with parents that protecting their children from diseases outweighs the risks of vaccine injury.

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This webinar series focuses on the core principles of risk communication that are of relevance in both routine and crisis settings. Interactive content includes practical applications of these principles including risk perception, trust determination, negative dominance, and mental noise. 

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this webinar series, participants will be able to: define risk communication and its dual relevance to public health practice activities in both routine and emergent settings, describe the practical importance of risk perception, trust determination, mental noise, and negative dominance in communicating risk effectively to concerned stakeholders, recognize critical distinctions between effective and ineffective risk communication practices, and apply risk communication principles to yield effective risk messaging efforts. 

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This study evaluates the effectiveness of multi-sector Partnerships for Early Childhood Development (PECD) in maintaining social needs screening, referral, and service delivery for children during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. PECD is an initiative that provides funding and guidance to help pediatric primary care practices partner with community-based social service organizations to address the social needs of children and families. Findings will identify how preexisting and emergent partnerships have changed in response to the pandemic, and how these changes have influenced the resiliency and sustainability of services needed by children and families. Researchers at New York University are collaborating with clinical and community partners in the PECD collaborative to complete the study.

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With the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and a new federal administration launching, we invite you join us for a virtual conversation to shape the future for 2021 and beyond! For Part 2 of our COVID-19 lessons learned series, we will gather for an energizing and interactive experience that will include the launch of NNPHI’s new health and racial equity initiative, Race Together for Public Health.

Participants will engage in discussions related to increasing multisector partnerships for racial equity, learn from elected officials working to depoliticize public health, explore how to improve health literacy and generate strategies for transforming public health. Once again, we will feature a spoken word artist to tap into our collective, creative mindset to address the next challenges. This event will feature forward-thinking conversations to generate solutions for the new year and beyond. Join us!

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This study assesses the capacity of community social services organizations and their partners to meet the needs of new clients identified through emerging social determinants of health (SDOH) screening and referral tools used by medical providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a previous study, researchers developed a method for assessing the capacity of social service organizations to accommodate referrals from medical providers. In this follow-up study, a team based at Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center and Visible Networks Lab use social network analysis, secondary data, and qualitative interviews to explore how clinical-community referral networks and referral patterns have changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how these changes may affect service delivery and outcomes for community residents. Findings will guide efforts to strengthen the capacity of communities to meet the health and social needs of their residents.

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This study evaluates the effectiveness of California’s Whole Person Care (WPC) initiative in coordinating health and social services for Medicaid beneficiaries with complex needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Projects underway in 26 counties engage Medicaid health plans, medical providers, mental health agencies, social service organizations, and public health agencies in collaborative models of care and payment that target specific population groups with complex needs in each county, including people experiencing homelessness, those transitioning from incarceration, and patients with multiple chronic medical conditions. Using a quasi-experimental research design, researchers assess changes in collaborative community networks, service delivery patterns, and patient outcomes for program participants and matched comparison groups across 26 county-level projects before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study analyzes data from network surveys, Medicaid claims data, and key-informant interviews to assess program effectiveness from multiple perspectives. Researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles and University of California-Berkeley are collaborating with the California Department of Health Care Services to conduct the study.

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