Presenter: Sarah Yang, Philosophy, Global Public Health Scholars
At the Center for Vaccine Development, I was in charge of community outreach. Essentially, I assisted the researchers and those conducting experimental trials by advertising their studies and spreading the word out to local communities via various ways. I researched the most effective ways of connecting with the community and constructed fliers and advertisements based off of that. I also assisted coordinators in screening for potential new research participants. Another task was that I conducted data management and inventory management by assisting various study coordinators with tasks that needed to be done. I was also able to attend seminars and talks given by members of the department, and learn more about pressing medical issues impacting various communities all over the world.
Nice poster! I think you incorporated your experience into the presentation very well. You explored pros and cons of your ideas and provided interesting solutions. I would have been interesting to hear about your experience with the local organizations if it did managed to happen. Exploring this issue in broader term, not bound to the community you addressed, would make an interesting project. Nice job!
Your project was very interesting to learn more about! To build more trust in the community, do you think CVD will create more educational material to remove anti-vaccination ideas and address the importance of vaccinations? Also, do you believe there is another rooted reason for distrust in the community that is not just because of vaccinations? You did a great job!
This presentation was very interesting. The issue of trust between the people of Baltimore and the major medical institutions is definitely something deeply rooted in history and needs to be addressed more. It would be interesting to know how much other cities in the U.S. face this issue as well. Is this question something you were aware of before or did your internship ultimately provide you with the insight?
Very professional job!
When I do the Cuba study abroad class, Cubans are very proud of their public health systems' work in vaccine production. They even tout one for cancer. After traveling to Cuba, my son (a senior in college at Hopkins), worked for a Latin America company that did medical trials and wanted him to research new sites beyond their Argentinian headquarter. One site he recommended was Cuba because of their educated population and of course their financial need. I will share this poster with him, I am sure he will find it interesting, like I did.