ACEH Hosts Virtual Program April 11 to Explore Vaccine Skepticism in the Hispanic/Latinx Community with Medical and Community Representatives
The Alliance for Cultural and Ethnic Harmony will host the third in its series of virtual programs on racial and ethnic disparities in health care, “Exploring Vaccine Skepticism in the Hispanic/Latinx Community,” on Sunday, April 11. The free event will run from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
To register, go to the ACEH website www.harmonyalliance.org
Panelists include health care and medical professionals, an immigration attorney, and a pastoral care minister. Yadah V. Ramirez, programs director at Latin Americans United for Progress (LAUP), will moderate the discussion. The Holland Museum will record the program and post it to its YouTube channel the following week.
The program offers an opportunity for people to raise questions and concerns and to receive reliable information so they can make their own decisions about vaccines.
The panelists are:
--Irving E. Vega, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine; he has also developed undergraduate programs to increase diversity in the field of neuroscience. He is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus and received his doctorate in cell biology and neuroscience from Rutgers University.
--Guillermo Flores, Ph.D, and a third-year medical student in the MSU College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids. He is a graduate of Holland High School and Hope College, where he received a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology; his doctorate is from the Van Andel Institute Graduate School.
--Joanna Rodriguez, RN, a registered nurse who works with Spectrum Health under the Healthier Communities Core Health program, providing education in self-management of several diseases. Prior to this, she was involved with heart disease prevention in Latinx communities.
--Derel Glashower, senior epidemiologist with the Ottawa County Health Department.
--Sarah Yore-Van Oosterhout, Esq., founder and managing attorney at Lighthouse Immigrant Advocates, a nonprofit immigration law office in Holland. She is a graduate of the MSU College of Law, formerly an attorney at the Diocese of Grand Rapids, and a board member of the Immigration Law Section of the Michigan State Bar Association.
--Tom Eggleston, pastoral care minister at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Parish, Holland, and a writer for the Church Life Journal and its blog on spirituality and culture. He has a master’s of divinity degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Holland residents Natalie Martinez and Maria Morales will provide written translations of questions and answers in the Zoom Chat box.
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