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Dr. Mona Fouad’s outreach to low-income areas stresses COVID-19 vaccines

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More African Americans are needed to participate in vaccine trials “because we need information as to how they react to the vaccines, as well as to give others in the community confidence,” Dr. Fouad said. | Photo: Mona Fouad, M.D., director of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). (FILE)THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES - “One of the first things we did when the COVID-19 [pandemic] started, was to do mobile testing,” she said. “We went to the communities, set up sites in the neighborhoods, and worked with churches and leaders to do more than 6,000 tests. We thought we needed to go back and do the same for the vaccine, but it has been a little bit different.”

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