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Enhancing vaccine confidence across ethnic minority communities

A co-produced research study that combines research, evidence and lived experience to understand and improve vaccine uptake in ethnic minority communities

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The Collaboration for Change represents two UK universities, nine community organisations and two small and medium size enterprises, who, in a collective effort, have conducted research on how to improve vaccine uptake among ethnic minority groups.

Uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine varies widely across communities, and the collaboration have been working to help identify the reasons behind these variations, with the aim to ultimately increase vaccine uptake. The methodology included two rapid literature reviews followed by a series of decision making frameworks to bring in the ‘true to life’ perspectives from community organisations.

A summary report is now available (see below) which highlights the critical factors that impact vaccine uptake, and provides recommendations on how to increase uptake across ethnic minority groups. Our full data are available at ReShare, a UK data repository

Below are some of the highlights of the report:

A lack of trust in the organisations and individuals encouraging vaccine uptake impacts vaccine uptake across many ethnic minority communities.

Using trusted messengers to encourage vaccine uptake may be a useful strategy to increase uptake in communities with low vaccination rates.

People are less likely to accept the offer of vaccination if little culturally and linguistically appropriate information is available to them, especially when their concerns are not covered.

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Press and Media Enquiries

Please use the contact details below to get in touch with our team if you’re a journalist with an enquiry or interview request.

COUCH Health

Ria Sunga, Research and Community Engagement
Email: ria@egality.health

Egality Health

Manchester BME Network CIC
Davine Forde, Associate, Manchester BME Network CIC,
Email: davine@manchesterbmenetwork.co.uk

North England

Caribbean & African Health Network in Greater Manchester

Charles Kwaku-Odoi, Chief Officer (CAHN)

Email: charlesk@cahn.org.uk

Ethnic Health Forum (Manchester)

Hanif Bobat, Development Manager
Email: hanif@ethnichealth.org.uk

Rotherham Ethnic Communities Network (Yorkshire)

Azizzum Akhtar, Chief Executive
Email: aakhtar@rema-online.org.uk

South England

Social Action for Health (London)

Ceri Durham, Interim CEO,
Social Action for Health
Email: cerid@safh.org.uk

Ipswich and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality

Phanuel Mutumburi, Business and Operations Director
Email: phanuel@iscre.org.uk

Kanlungan Filipino Consortium

Susan Cueva, Trustee
Email: susancueva@kanlungan.org.uk
Mobile: 07397796238

Midlands

South Asian Health Action (Leicester)

Kirit Mistry, Chairman and Founder
Email: southasianhealthaction@gmail.com
Mobile: 079405166661

Scotland

REACH Community Health
Project (SCIO) (Glasgow)

Shabir Banday, Director
Email: shabir@reachhealth.org.uk

University of Aberdeen

Shaun Treweek, Professor of Health Services Research

Email: streweek@mac.com

Egality Health

Ria Sunga, Research and Community Engagement
Email: ria@egality.health

COUCH Health

Ash Rishi, CEO and Co-Founder
Email: ash@couchhealth.co

North England

South England

Manchester BME
Network CIC

Charles Kwaku-Odoi, Chief Officer (CAHN),
Email: charlesk@cahn.org.uk

Social Action for Health
(London)

Ceri Durham, Interim CEO, Social Action for Health
Email: cerid@safh.org.uk

Caribbean & African Health
Network in Greater Manchester

Charles Kwaku-Odoi, Chief Officer (CAHN),
Email: charlesk@cahn.org.uk

Ipswich and Suffolk Council
for Racial Equality

Phanuel Mutumburi, Business and Operations Director
Email: phanuel@iscre.org.uk

Rotherham Ethnic Communities Network
(Yorkshire)

Azizzum Akhtar, Chief Executive
Email: aakhtar@rema-online.org.uk

UCL Institute of Education,
University College London

Talia Isaacs
Email: talia.isaacs@ucl.ac.uk

Midlands

Scotland

South Asian Health Action
(Leicester)

Kirit Mistry, Chairman and Founder
Email: southasianhealthaction@gmail.com
Mobile: 07940516666

University of
Aberdeen

Shaun Treweek, Professor of Health Services Research
Email: streweek@mac.com

REACH Community Health
Project (SCIO) (Glasgow)

Shabir Banday, Director
Email: shabir@reachhealth.org.uk

Press Release

Three ways to improve the uptake of COVID vaccines by ethnic minority groups in the UK

COVID vaccines protect people from severe illness and death, but in the UK, they’re not doing so evenly. While overall uptake of COVID vaccines in Britain is high, it isn’t uniform across all ethnic groups.

Covid vaccine: Westminster has UK’s lowest jab uptake despite being in the Government’s own backyard

106,000 eligible people in Westminster still have not come forward for their first dose, according to figures from the Government’s UK Health Security Agency

Mistrust is among the main factors influencing vaccine uptake in ethnic minority groups

The main factors that influence vaccine uptake among ethnic minority groups have been identified in a study published today.

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