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 ====== COVID-19 Vaccine Promotion ======
-===== Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity =====
+==== Trudeau Social Media Vaccine PR ====
+Canadian News Mar 31, 2022
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+Trudeau Liberals paid over $600k to hire influencers to convince people to get vaxxed. For the year 2021, it has been determined that the federal government spent more than $600 thousand on social media influencers to "promote federal iniciatives," chiefly the push for Canadians to get vaccinated.((https://web.archive.org/web/20220331165654/https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-administration-paid-influencers))
-Created in December 2020 by the [[City of Toronto]] as part of the TO Supports: Targeted Equity Action Plan in partnership with the [[TAIBU Community Health Centre]] to increase vaccine uptake/combat “[[vaccine hesitancy]]” among black people of African and Caribbean origins.((Media Relations. (2021, February 3). //Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity.// City of Toronto. https://www.toronto.ca/news/black-scientists-task-force-on-vaccine-equity/)) ((//COVID-19: City Immunization Strategies.// (2021, January 18). City of Toronto. https://www.toronto.ca/home/covid-19/covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-city-immunization-program/))
-==== Town Hall Meetings ====
-The Task Force held a series of virtual “town hall meetings” in order to "harness trusted community partners, health and medical professionals and academics to deliver fundamentals of vaccine development and immunization essentials."((Khenti, A. (2021). //Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity c/o Taibu Community Health Centre.// City of Toronto. https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/hl/comm/communicationfile-132894.pdf)) Partners for the events included [[Black Creek Community Health Centre]] (CHC), [[Black North Initiative]] (BNI), [[Black Opportunities Fund]], [[Black Physicians Association of Ontario]], [[Canadian Black Clergy and Allies]] (CBCA), the [[Black Health Alliance]], the [[Canadian Multicultural Inventors Museum]], the [[Harriet Tubman Institute]], the [[Jamaican Canadian Association]] (JCA), the [[Walnut Foundation]], [[Wellesley Institute]], and [[Women’s Health in Women’s Hands]].
-The group estimated that "vaccine hesitancy was reduced by at least 25% among approximately 6785 participants in its 20 Town Halls". A final {{ :communicationfile-132894.pdf |report}} produced six action points:
-  - "Immunization coverage does not match racialized rates of positivity, hospitalization, and death";
-  - "Inadequate sick days and income support" (which calls for the [[Canadian Emergency Response Benefit]] to be transitioned into a form of [[universal basic income]]);
-  - "Deliberate misinformation circulated on social media";
-  - "Availability of race-based data";
-  - "Surging mental health concerns";
-  - "Shortage of vaccines across source countries for families of many Black Torontonians compounding local stress and grief" (calling on the federal government to send 15% of its supply overseas through [[COVAX]] and the [[World Health Organization]], to bolster support for the [[Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization]]/GAVI, as well as support a measure of the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) to remove regulatory barriers to scale up vaccine production).
-  -
-==== Membership ====
-=== Akwatu Khenti ===
-Dr. [[Akwatu Khenti]] is the Special Advisor to the City of Toronto’s [[Targeted COVID Equity Action Plan]] and the Chair of the Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity. Dr. Khenti is an Assistant Professor with the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]] at the [[University of Toronto]] and an advisor to the school on equity and inclusion. He is formerly the Assistant Deputy Minister for the [[Province of Ontario]]’s Anti-Racism Directorate, as well as the [[Centre for Addiction and Mental Health]] (CAMH) Director of Transformative Global Health.
-=== Zainab Abdurrahman ===
-Dr. [[Zainab Abdurrahman]] is a graduate of the University of Toronto Medical School and completed both her pediatrics and subspecialty training in Clinical Immunology and Allergy at [[McMaster University]]. At [[McMaster Children’s Hospital]], she is the allergy lead in the Special Immunization Clinic focusing on vaccine allergy. She is also a practicing allergist in the Greater Toronto Area. Member of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]].
-=== Trevor Aldrige ===
-[[Trevor Aldridge]] is the Senior Director of Quality & Compliance at [[Brevitas Consulting Inc.]], working with [[Sanofi]], [[Fresenius Kabi]], [[Teva Pharmaceuticals]], [[National Resilience, Inc.]], [[Patheon]], [[Ceva]], [[Labstat]], [[Medicago]], [[SiO2 Materials Science]], [[Therapure BioPharma Inc.]], [[Biovectra]], [[Apotex]], [[EmpowerPharm]], [[Alphora]], [[Kisoji Biotechnology]], [[JayChem]], [[OctaPharma]], [[NucroTechnics]], [[NoNO Inc.]], [[Chemtura]], [[AIMCo]], [[Grantek]], [[Purolator]], [[University of Toronto]], and the [[Ontario Ministry of Transportation]].((//Our Clients.// Brevitas. Retrieved December 28, 2021, from https://www.brevitas.us/our-clients/)) He has more than 30 years of industry experience, including product and process development and the manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals. His previous positions include Director Quality Operations with [[Sanofi]] Pasteur Ltd and Drug and Biologicals Specialist with [[Health Canada]].((//Meet Our Team.// Brevitas. Retrieved December 28, 2021, from https://www.brevitas.us/meet-our-team/#))
-=== Upton Allen ===
-Dr. [[Upton Allen]] is a professor at the [[University of Toronto]] and the Division Head of Infectious Diseases, and Senior Associate Scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children ([[SickKids]]). Member of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]].
-=== David Burt ===
-Dr. [[David Burt]] is an Immunologist with more than 30 years of international experience in the research and development of vaccines against infectious diseases, including [[influenza]] and SARS. He holds a Ph.D. in Immunology from the [[University of Birmingham]] and a Bachelor of Science in Biological Chemistry from [[Essex University]]. He is an award-winning author with over 40 published peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and is a Harry Jerome Award recipient, amongst other Canadian and international awards. Dr. Burt is currently a member of the Review Panel of the [[Genomic Applications Partnership Program]] (GAPP) of [[Ontario Genomics]] and a consultant for a company developing a Canadian government supported intranasal vaccine for COVID-19 using technology that he previously developed.
-=== Celina Caesar-Chavannes ===
-[[Celina Caesar-Chavannes]] has a Bachelor of Science and an Executive MBA from the [[University of Toronto]], as well as an MBA in Healthcare Management from the [[University of Phoenix]]. Although most noted for her service as a Member of Parliament, with the [[Government of Canada]] representing the Town of Whitby, Mrs. Caesar-Chavannes is also a research consultant and has worked with a variety of international and Canadian private, government and non-government organizations.
-=== Francis Jeffers ===
-[[Francis Jeffers]] is the founder of the [[Visions of Science Network for Learning]]. Jeffers currently works within the pharmaceutical industry as a Quality Control Specialist, including vaccine development.
-=== Juannittah Kamera ===
-[[Juannittah Kamera]] is a Registered Nurse and the Coordinator, Health Promotion Programs, overseeing [[Ryerson University]]’s Health Promotion Programs Office. She has a master’s degree in Public Health and Health Promotion.
-=== Na-Koshie Lamptey ===
-Dr. [[Na-Koshie Lamptey]] is the Deputy Medical Officer of Health for the [[City of Toronto]]. Lamptey obtained her medical degree at the [[University of Toronto]], as well as degrees in Epidemiology and Public Health Management from [[Yale University]] and a Bachelor of liberal arts from [[Princeton University]].
-=== Kwame McKenzie ===
-Dr. [[Kwame McKenzie]] is CEO of the [[Wellesley Institute]]. He is an "international expert on the social causes of illness, suicide and the development of effective, equitable health systems." He is a Professor of Psychiatry at [[University of Toronto]] and Director of Health Equity at the [[Centre of Addiction and Mental Health]] (CAMH). Member of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]].
-=== Onye Nnorom ===
-Dr. [[Onye Nnorom]] is a family doctor and a Public Health & Preventive Medicine specialist. Dr. Nnorom completed her medical degree at [[McGill University]] and then completed a Masters of Public Health (Epidemiology) at the [[University of Toronto]]. She is the President of the [[Black Physicians’ Association of Ontario]] and the host of the podcast ‘Race, Health and Happiness’ where she interviews successful Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color.
-=== Isaac Odame ===
-Dr. [[Isaac Odame]] is the Haematology Section Head in the Division of Haematology/Oncology and the Medical Director of the [[Global Sickle Cell Disease Network]] at the [[Centre for Global Child Health]] at The Hospital for Sick Children ([[SickKids]]). He is a Professor and Director of the Division of Adult and Paediatric Haematology in the Departments of Medicine and Paediatrics at the [[University of Toronto]]. He holds the Alexandra Yeo Chair in Hematology in the University of Toronto. His work with the Centre for Global Child Health is "building enduring collaborations between clinicians/scientists worldwide to further research and advance care of patients, particularly in low-income countries with heaviest disease burden."
-=== Ashleigh Rae-Thomas ===
-[[Ashleigh Rae-Thomas]] is an Afro-Caribbean writer, facilitator, key-note speaker and community organizer from Toronto, by way of Jamaican roots. After graduating from the [[University of Guelph-Humber]]’s Media Studies and Communications, Ashleigh went on to be a participant in Bashy Magazines’ first inaugural writer incubator and the CFC x Black Women Film! Canada Writers Program. In her words, “I learned the importance of vaccines from talking to my grandmother. She told me how there was a [[smallpox]] outbreak in Jamaica when she was a child. If it were not for vaccines, she probably would have contracted and died from the highly contagious disease. I always admired her trust in vaccines for her children, since she had witnessed first hand the effects of an unvaccinated society.”
-=== Dionne Sinclair ===
-[[Dionne Sinclair]] is the Vice President of Clinical Care & Recovery and Chief Nurse Executive at the [[Centre for Addiction and Mental Health]] (CAMH). She is also a member of the [[Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario]] (RNAO) Black Nurses task force and an active member of the [[College of Nurses of Ontario]]’s Employer Reference Group. As a Certified Healthcare Executive (CHE), Dionne’s previous leadership roles include: Multi-Site Director, Diversity and Cultural Advancement at [[Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital]] and [[Southlake Regional Health Centre]] in Newmarket.
-=== Candice Todd ===
-Dr. [[Candice Todd]] is a naturopathic doctor with expertise in health promotion and disease prevention. She completed her Honors Bachelor of Health Sciences degree at the [[University of Western Ontario]]. From there she followed her passion for health by completing a four-year program at the [[Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine]] to earn her Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine diploma.
-=== Nicole Welch ===
-[[Nicole Welch]] is the Chief Nursing Officer and COVID-19 Liaison Director with [[Toronto Public Health]]. She is a Registered Nurse with a Master of Science Degree in Nursing from [[McGill University]] and is in the final stages of obtaining a PhD in Applied Psychology and Human Development from the [[University of Toronto]]’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.