Building Vaccine Confidence During COVID-19: The Role of the Medical Neighborhood
Please join the Bipartisan Policy Center and the GTMRx Institute on April 6 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. as we discuss effective strategies to build vaccine confidence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vaccinating Americans is critical to preventing severe illness or death from COVID-19 and ultimately stopping the pandemic. It is also essential in getting people back to work, to play, and to living. To achieve widespread vaccination, engagement of the medical neighborhood is fundamental when implementing community programs designed to effectively build vaccine confidence. While we have seen encouraging vaccination rates, urgent action is necessary to reach herd immunity which experts estimate would require anywhere from 70% to 90% of the U.S. population be fully vaccinated. The reasons people are skeptical about taking the coronavirus vaccine are complex. Building vaccine confidence requires proactive and thoughtful public awareness, education, and engagement of a variety of local stakeholders including community members.
This event is underwritten by a grant from Johnson & Johnson.
Featured Participants
Opening remarks by:
- Bill Frist, MD · Former Senate Majority Leader; Senior Fellow, BPC
- Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP · Former Administrator; CMS; Founder, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Katherine H. Capps · Executive Director and Co-Founder, GTMRx Institute
- Anand Parekh, MD · Chief Medical Advisor, BPC
- Karen Remley, MD · Director, CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities; Deputy Incident Manager, CDC’s COVID-19 Response
Panel discussion with
- Sree Chaguturu, MD · Chief Medical Officer, CVS Caremark
- Susan Dentzer (Moderator) · Senior Policy Fellow, Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University
- Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA · Founder and CEO, Grapevine Health
- Bruce Gellin, MD, MPH · President, Global Immunization, Sabin Vaccine Institute
- Howard M. Haft, MD, MMM, CPE, FACPE · Executive Director, Maryland Primary Care Program
In light of restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, BPC events have shifted to all remote formats, such as video teleconferences or calls.
