Vax Up Podcast
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Vax Up Podcast is an exciting new podcast series exploring the power of social media to strengthen vaccine confidence and shape health behaviors. This podcast is brought to you by the Alliance for Advancing Health Online, an initiative to advance public understanding of how social media and behavioral sciences can be leveraged to improve the health of communities around the world.
In each episode, we follow a different community outreach organization and see how it is getting the message out, interspersed with a panel discussion of experts, on what lessons can be shared with other implementers, policy makers and community members.
The Vax Up Podcast is produced by the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and Sabin Vaccine Institute with Ben Plumley, of A Shot in the Arm Podcast. Please visit www.vaxuppodcast.com for information.
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Episodes
Connecting “Hardly Reached” Communities Through Digital and Social Media
October 28, 2022 05:00 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBIn this episode, we look at projects funded in the first round of grants from the Vaccine Confidence Fund, from indigenous communities in Guatemala and Canada, to girls and young women in India and sub Saharan Africa. Our panel also looks at other interesting approaches to ask the question just how digital media & social network platforms can help build trust in healthcare, particularly vaccines, in these “hardly reached” communities. Panelists: Trevor Stratton, Indigenous and First Natio...
Shujaaz Inc. Reaches Young East Africans Through Social and Digital Media
June 16, 2022 08:13 - 59 minutes - 81.7 MBIn this episode we journey to Kenya, and Tanzania to meet the Nairobi-based internationally renowned Shujaaz network, which uses a range of social media and graphic novels to reach young people in Kenya and Tanzania and provide accessible, enjoyable health-related content. A grantee of the Vaccine Confidence Fund, the Shuzaaj team in this project teamed up with Bay Area Global Health Alliance member Upswell to use the latest techniques in evaluating social media campaigns - and the results a...
ImmUNITY Chicago - An Innovative Partnership in Digital and Traditional Vaccine Outreach
April 07, 2022 06:39 - 47 minutes - 66 MBIn this episode, we meet ImmUNITY Chicago, a public-private partnership that combines the social media communications expertise of the private sector, proven advocacy from a national vaccine confidence non-profit, and grassroots community outreach, to promote vaccine confidence in communities of color in Chicago. Join a fascinating and lively conversation as we explore the amazing reach and impact the partnership has had, to be shared with vaccine implementers working with other communities ...
Maya Health Alliance Reaches Indigenous Guatemalan Communities
March 09, 2022 13:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBIn this episode, we head to Guatemala, where an innovative partnership between Wuqu’ Kawoq (the Maya Health Alliance), UCSF and Stanford University, are developing digital and social media messaging for indigenous rural communities in local Mayan languages. The project - funded by the Vaccine Confidence Fund, part of the Alliance for Advancing Health Online - provides some useful lessons learned for vaccine implementers looking to find ways of reaching marginalized communities with messaging...
Girl Effect India Blends Tech, Cultural Competency to Reach Young Mothers (Ep02)
October 12, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBIn this episode of the Vax Up Podcast, we head to India, a country that prides itself on access to vaccines, where a drop in families seeking routine vaccinations for children during the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a need for stronger messaging campaigns on routine childhood immunizations. We look at how Girl Effect, an international nonprofit dedicated to empowering young women and girls through media, answered that call to action with a first-of-its-kind campaign aimed at reaching an elusive...
CALPEP Turns to Social Media to Help Clients Get Vaccinated
September 29, 2021 12:55 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBIn our first episode, we meet Oakland California based, CALPEP, a grass-roots HIV community organization serving the area's most marginalized populations. During the COVID pandemic, they turned their in-person counseling into social technology-based outreach and care. We also talk with partners of the Alliance for Advancing Health Online, a new initiative to advance public understanding of how social media and behavioral sciences can be leveraged to improve the health of communities around t...