Videos

We are proud to highlight the work of Celeste Paula, Health Promoter with Centro Hispano de East Tennessee. She is a tireless advocate for the Latino community in the Knoxville area, a true hero, and the subject of our first #communitytrailblazers feature!  

Community Trailblazer: Jada Davis; Cancer Justice Network"You have to have the care and concern for people." As a health navigator for Cancer Justice Network in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jada Davis advocates for people who are overlooked, forgotten about, and counted out. She makes sure they have the health care support and services they need. Jada also knows how painful it is to lose someone to COVID-19, and this has inspired her to share her story and help more people get protected through vaccination...

This summer St. Mary’s Health Wagon, a nonprofit that provides free healthcare services to the medically underserved residents of the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia, hosted their three-day Move Mountains Medical Mission. They offered people access to free primary and specialized care. They also gave people access to eye exams and glasses fabrication, and dental health services including fillings, extractions and oral cancer screenings. With support from the CDC Foundation, they...

El Sol Neighborhood Center in San Bernadino, CA created this inspiring video "We are born, Not Made" – an anthem composed to celebrate the unwavering spirit of Community Health Workers (CHWs) worldwide. The community health worker (CHW) and promotor model used by El Sol is a peer-to-peer empowerment approach in education, prevention, and early intervention for social and health services. The model is based on the recognition that the people best equipped to reach underserved communities are the...

Did you know that you can access over 1,200 accurate, free and downloadable resources about vaccines in 50+ languages right here on the Vaccine Resource Hub (VRH)? This video tutorial will walk you through simple steps that will help you get the most out of the VRH.Watch and learn about all the various functions and features so that you can explore all that the VRH has to offer.

Ser Familia, in Atlanta, GA, provides family, social and mental health services to Latino communities in the Atlanta metropolitan area. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ser Familia began hosting regular vaccination events where people could have their questions answered in English and Spanish. Latino community members with ties to over a dozen countries attended, trusting that Ser Familia would take care of them.

The Chinese American Chamber of Commerce (CACC) in Minnesota partnered with the Wat Thai Temple during the SONGKRAN Festival (Thai New Year) to offer free educational materials and COVID-19 vaccinations to over 30,000 attendees. By working with trusted faith leaders, CACC was able to reach more people and increase vaccine confidence within the local Thai community. 

In Baton Rouge, LA, Metro Health partnered with local church pastors on an ad campaign to overcome mistrust and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch here to learn how this partnership increased vaccine confidence and inspired more people to get vaccinated.

The Center works to resettle and support refugees in upstate New York. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center offered vaccine clinics to immigrant and refugee families, as well as to the wider community. People also came to share their concerns and have their questions answered by people who understood their culture and spoke their languages.

The predominantly Black community of West Philadelphia experienced high rates of COVID-19 and low rates of vaccine acceptance. That’s where ACHIEVEability stepped in, making vaccination as easy as a trip to the grocery store. Learn more about how they were able to reach their community.  

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC Foundation partnered with CDC and community-based organizations (CBOs) across the country to increase vaccine confidence and access in all communities, especially those where disparities exist. The CDC Foundation is currently supporting 123 CBOs through the Partnering for Vaccine Equity (P4VE) program. These organizations are trusted resources with long-standing relationships in the neighborhoods they serve, and their ongoing efforts have resulted...

Local Changemaker Asian Services in Action (ASIA) is a health and social services organization that serves the needs of the Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in Northeast Ohio. In January 2023, ASIA co-hosted a Lunar New Year event with performances & entertainment, as well as essential health information on HIV self-testing and COVID-19 vaccines. Check out the music, dancing and martial arts as Ohio rang in the Year of the Rabbit!

Working through five offices in Atlanta, Ser Familia provides a wide range of family services, including parenting classes, couples and youth programs and domestic violence services. In total, Ser Familia serves about 6,000 clients each year.“Our Latinos and our Hispanic community have a lot of challenges,” said Belisa Urbina, CEO of Ser Familia. “There are very few services, and sometimes these are very difficult to get, in particular if that family is undocumented or is a family with mixed...

Several of our Partnering for Vaccine Equity (P4VE) community partners were invited to Washington, D.C. to present their work at the White House Summit on COVID-19 Equity and What Works showcase in November 2022:

Asian Pacific Community in Action (APCA) gave their community an opportunity to come together for hope, healing and donuts! In March 2023, APCA held a pop-up art event at the Donut Parlor in Tempe, Arizona. Local artists created works reflecting the community’s experiences with COVID-19. Friends and neighbors were able to take home original art and delicious donuts too:

The Center for Multicultural Wellness and Prevention hosted a Caribbean health fair in September 2022 in Orlando, FL with health screenings and vaccination opportunities along with food, music and fun for the whole family:

In this video, the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council in Chicago reminds us of the importance of remembering those we've lost. In 2022, community members came together for Día de los Muertos and built an altar to honor and celebrate loved ones lost to COVID-19.

The Eastside Community Network in Detroit, Michigan recently held a wellness fair for their residents that included vaccine information, fitness, dance and cooking classes and information on vaccines and other health resources. Check out how this #LocalChangemaker is helping the Detroit community thrive!

Join the Team; a brilliant, witty short about the importance of working together to beat COVID-19.

This animated music video features an original song created for the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Queens, NY as part of the VaxxScene campaign, a project to promote health and the benefits of vaccination against COVID-19 as well as influenza in the BIPOC community of Southeast Queens. 

Jared Rogerson performs his original song, “It Won’t Be Me,” affirming his decision to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. He created this song and video as a part of the Wyoming Arts Council's Vaccine Education effort, drawing inspiration for the lyrics from his own COVID-related struggles and losses. In sharing his song, Jared hopes listeners will be moved to consider getting  vaccinated themselves. 

This captivating collection of original musical and dance performances was created by the Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artist Collective.  Story Stitchers' "Perception Isn’t Always Reality" campaign engaged teen and young adult artists from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) to recognize their worthiness as individuals, and encourages these communities to reevaluate messages they may have received about COVID and vaccinations, while considering the sources of the information.  

Who says vaccine education can't be creative? Spy Hop’s Apprenticeship students worked in partnership with the CDC Foundation, the Salt Lake County Health Department and Amplify Utah on the Vax2theMax 2.0 campaign. They created innovative  projects to educate and engage the youth audience, including a poster, a video game, and this humorous and informative PSA. 

Community Immunity: A Rap Anthology About Vaccines is a COVID-19 public information campaign from Hip Hop Public Health. A suite of free resources aimed at increasing COVID-19 vaccine coverage in communities of color, this animated rap anthology deconstructs vaccine literacy into in a series of seven animated videos featuring the voice of Grammy®-winning rapper and HHPH Advisory Board member Darryl DMC McDaniels of Run-DMC, along with award-winning producer Artie Green and singer-songwriter...

This video features Kimberly Hall, seven-time Food Network baking contender and owner of Signature Sweets Bakery in Shorewood, Wisconsin, talking about the COVID-19 pandemic and why she chose to get vaccinated. (Video produced by our social media partners Culture One World) 

This video features Gaulien “Gee” Smith, owner of the iconic Milwaukee barbershop Gee’s Clippers talking about the COVID-19 pandemic and why he chose to get vaccinated. (Video produced by our social media partners Culture One World)

This powerful video from Mississippi-based nonprofit My Brother's Keeper features a family of five who all contracted the Delta variant in June 2021 talking about the importance of getting vaccinated.