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Debra Furr-Holden

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Associate Dean for Public Health Integration, Michigan State University

A Delta Health Center worker at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic in rural Mississippi in April 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

August 27, 2021

How public health partnerships are encouraging COVID‑19 vaccination in Mississippi, Michigan, Indiana and South Carolina

Debra Furr-Holden, Michigan State University; Brooke W. McKeever, University of South Carolina; David R. Buys, Mississippi State University, and Omolola Adeoye-Olatunde, Purdue University

Achieving widespread immunity to COVID-19 through vaccination requires as many people as possible to get their shots, including those who object or haven’t bothered.

Latrice Davis, a nurse at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago, receives the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 18, 2020. Scott Olson via Getty Images

December 23, 2020

What’s not being said about why African Americans need to take the COVID‑19 vaccine

Debra Furr-Holden, Michigan State University

Black people are skeptical about the new vaccines for many reasons. If public health leaders told the full story, maybe there’d be a higher chance that Black people would want to take the vaccine.

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