Project Title:

Reach, Educate, and Collaborate with High-Risk Communities (REACH) to Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy

Funding Agency:

Texas Department of State Health Services and Texas A&M University

Project start and end dates (month/year)

October 2021 – July 2022

Project lead, co-lead(s), and other faculty involved:

Project Lead

Antonea’ Jackson, PhD, RN, CNE

Project Co-Lead

Debbie Jones, PhD, RN

Co-investigators

  • Pamela Cormier, DNP, MHA, RN
  • Hilda Eagleton, DNP, RN
  • Sheila Harvin, PhD, RN, CNS-P/MH
  • Stacy Sam, PhD, MPH, RN
  • Cindy Wallace, MSN, FNP-BC
  • Jerrel Moore, PhD
  • Ruby Benjamin-Garner, PhD, MPH

Project summary

The project objective is provide COVID-19 outreach and education activities aimed at increasing the number of fully vaccinated people in Texas.

Target Population – communities of color, Texans with disabilities, rural communities.

Proposed Activities and Outcomes – partnership with communities of color primarily to provide accurate, culturally sensitive information about the COVID vaccine to reduce vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccination rates in the Greater Houston area and Waller County.

Project Significance – Reducing vaccine hesitancy, increasing vaccine rates, decreasing COVID spread, morbidity, and mortality in target populations.