Morehouse School of Medicine News February 2021 Fighting Vaccine Hesitancy and Misinformation Academic medical institutions, including historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions, address issues of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in their communities through research and outreach. Virginia Davis Floyd, MD<https://www.msm.edu/about_us/FacultyDirectory/CommunityHealthPreventiveMedicine/VirginiaFloyd/index.php>, an associate professor of clinical community health and preventive medicine at MSM, speaks to Inside Higher Ed about the work within the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network<https://www.msm.edu/ncrn> to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate COVID-19 messages and materials for racial and ethinic minority communities that are being hardest hit by the pandemic. "It boils down to what we call right message, right messenger work," Floyd said about what it will take to fight vaccine hesitancy and misinformation. The development of the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network comes after a $40 million federal grant<https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/06/23/hhs-announces-partnership-morehouse-school-medicine-fight-covid-19-racial-ethnic-minority.html> from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. View Article external link<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/02/02/academic-medical-institutions-address-issues-vaccine-hesitancy-through-research-and> Sandra M. Phoenix HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta GA 30314 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) http://www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> Honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come. Building Capacity for Humanities Special Collections at HBCUs - Become an ally and partner with us to protect, preserve and share a more authentic record of American history. Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/humanities-2019.html for more information. Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/ and click on the Donate Now button to invest in this project. Your support is appreciated. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/