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Jesse Rosenberg, Rebecca Cheff, Nahomi Amberber

Encouraging vaccinations through equitable strategies

General practitioner vaccinating old patient in private clinic with copy space. Doctor giving injection to woman at hospital. Nurse holding syringe and using cotton before make Covid-19 or coronavirus vaccine.

A range of strategies have been suggested to increase vaccination rates – from free donuts and lotteries to employment requirements and vaccine certificates. Wellesley Institute has conducted a rapid review of effectiveness evidence and an analysis of unintended impacts on equity-seeking groups of eleven strategies to determine which strategies could meaningfully increase vaccination rates and which should be avoided due to potential differential harms they pose to Canadians.

Encouraging vaccinations though equitable strategies

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.