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Special note: This seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the link and password two hours before the seminar. Please note that space is limited.

People with mental illness experience a range of factors that can be both behavioral and structural (ex. living in congregate settings) that put them more at risk for contracting and dying from COVID-19 than their peers. These individuals have historically had lower vaccine uptake for other vaccines, such as influenza. After primary series have been completed, Canadian youth have had much slower uptake of COVID-19 boosters than other adults. So where does that leave Canadian youth with mental illnesses, and what can be done to better reach this group with COVID-19 vaccine information?

Join Dr. Daniel Buchman and Claire Perry as they share their insights on the attitudes of youth with mental illness towards COVID-19 vaccines – and what targeted, evidence-based approaches could help vaccine uptake in this population.

About the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, DLSPH:

With leadership housed at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, we are developing an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers, educators and public health advocates. Our vision is to catalyze cutting-edge research and education that maximizes the health benefits of immunization for everyone.

We aim to contribute locally and globally to healthy communities through excellence in interdisciplinary vaccine-preventable disease and immunization research and education.

Questions? Email us at cvpd.dlsph@utoronto.ca