Vision, Mission, Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to the nation’s public health and healthcare infrastructure. Community health centers serve as the safety net to the highest-risk patients and often serve as first responders to emergencies such as hurricanes, fires, and public health crises.  The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) proposes to engage local health centers as trusted brokers to build the evidence base of effective interventions to reduce disparities in adult vaccination rates amongst diverse populations (homeless, mobile, rural, refugees, behavioral health, LGBTQ, farmworker, non-English speakers, immigrants etc.).  NACHCS approach will include a package of mechanisms to contribute to the evidence-based messaging and models and the following results: