Enhancing vaccine confidence across ethnic minority communities (7 December 2021)

Summary

The Collaboration for Change is a group of two UK universities, nine community organisations and two small and medium size enterprises, who have conducted research on how to improve vaccine uptake among ethnic minority groups. This report outlines the results of a co-produced research study by the Collaboration for Change that combines research, evidence and lived experience to understand and improve vaccine uptake in ethnic minority communities.

The report highlights the following factors influencing vaccine uptake:

• Using trusted messengers to encourage vaccine uptake may be a useful strategy to increase uptake in communities with low vaccination rates
• A lack of trust in the organisations and individuals encouraging vaccine uptake impacts vaccine uptake across many ethnic minority communities
• People are less likely to accept the offer of vaccination if little culturally and linguistically appropriate information is available to them, especially when their concerns are not covered

Alongside the report, the Collaboration for Change has produced some recommended strategies to improve vaccine confidence and uptake.