Deliberative and Participatory Approaches to Addressing COVID‑19 in African American and Hispanic Communities in Texas

September 2020 - March 2022

PROJECT GOALS

Assess the barriers to COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and the perception of home testing kits among African American and Hispanic populations

For this project, we aimed to understand the knowledge, attitudes, and perspectives of underrepresented groups related to both home testing kits and COVID-19 vaccines.

To do this, we partnered with local groups and leaders to recruit community members to join us for 90-minute virtual dialog sessions.

We also partnered with community groups to distribute educational resources to the public in order to fight disinformation and misinformation.

Blue silhouette map of the state of Texas with a white circle centered over the state containing the number ‘1’.

Counties impacted Harris

PARTNERS Community Partners

The success of this Texas CEAL Consortium project is due to the dedicated work of our community partners. Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans Change Happens University of Houston

Meet the principal investigator Bettina Beech

Dr. Beech served as a principal Investigator for Texas CEAL Consortium. She is an Associate Provost and Professor of Health Systems and Population Health Science at the University of Houston College of Medicine.

Related Publications

Implementation of the Texas Community-Engaged Statewide Consortium for the Prevention of COVID-19

Tagged: English, Academic Publication

View this publication

The Texas Community-Engagement Research Alliance Against COVID-19 in Disproportionately Affected Communities (TX CEAL) Consortium