Dime la VerDAD (Verify, Debunk, and Disseminate)

“Promotores de salud are trusted community members who serve as links between health/social services and a community to improve access to health services and quality of service delivery. Promotores can diffuse and address misinformation in their communities and can be essential to debunk myths, increase trust, and improve health outcomes; they have been at the forefront of addressing disparities in COVID testing and vaccine uptake.

Promotores de salud are uniquely positioned as trusted messengers to debunk vaccine misinformation through strategic use of social media and infodemiology principles. This project is an innovative social media capacity-building program based on theoretical frameworks related to health communication that empowers Promotores de salud to debunk vaccine misinformation through the use of personal narratives on social media.”

Commentary:
This project engages trusted community influencers to "debunk vaccine misinformation" and to deliver government-approved messaging on Covid and vaccines - originally continuing until 2027 but appears to have been terminated early on Sept. 15, 2024.

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