What is Georgia CEAL?
Garnering Effective Outreach and Research in Georgia for Impact Alliance (Georgia) Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities
Georgia CEAL is a member of the National Institutes of Health that supports statewide efforts to
- Conduct urgent community-engaged research and outreach focused on COVID-19 awareness and education to address misinformation and mistrust; and
- Promote and facilitate inclusion of diverse racial and ethnic populations in clinical trials (prevention, vaccine, therapeutics), reflective of the populations disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
The overarching goals of
Georgia CEAL
- To understand factors that contribute to the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 in underserved communities and establish effective, community-engaged research and outreach response strategies and;
- To conduct community-responsive, innovative research and outreach to understand and address vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, and mistrust towards acceptance, confidence in, and uptake of COVID-19 vaccination
Meet Our Team
Tabia Henry Akintobi, PhD, MPH
Principal Investigator & Director
Sedessie Spivey, DBA, MS
Multi-Principal Investigator
Robert Bednarczyk, PhD, MS
Multi-Principal Investigator
David Williams, MD, MPH
Multi-Principal Investigator
Katrina Brantley, DrPH, MPH
Project Director
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