NIH Funds Trial of Smartphone Tool To Target Parents Who Are “Vaccine Hesitant “
‘The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding research at Nashville, Tennessee’s Meharry Medical College on how to increase uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among underserved adolescents whose parents are “vaccine-hesitant,” documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed.
The NIH awarded a $519,399, four-year grant in 2019 to Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Ph.D., MPH, associate professor of internal medicine, to develop “tailored health communication messaging” to target vaccine-hesitant parents by testing out an intervention in a trial at a local clinic serving primarily African-American families and Medicaid recipients.’