January 31, 2022

How Indigenous communities are leading the way in COVID-19 vaccination rates

Author: Rachel Whitt

Overcoming significant challenges, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities enacted a swift, innovative, inclusive, and community-driven approach to rolling out the COVID-19 vaccination, and there’s a lot to be learned from their methods. A perspective penned by two University of New Mexico faculty members and recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine explains the effectiveness of Indigenous communities’ response.
“In the vaccination process we’ve seen what happens w...