Media
As part of VaccinateLA (Kipke/Baezconde-Garbanati, PIs), Jeremy Kagan and Sheila Murphy’s Telling Stories, Saving Lives worked with young Latinx and African American filmmakers trained at USC School of Cinematic Arts to create two short stories that debunk common myths that underlie vaccine hesitancy in those specific populations.
Of Reasons and Rumors follows a tight-knit Latino family in East LA who disagree about the importance and safety of Covid vaccination.
The films were produced by filmmakers representing these communities with the support of USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Keck School of Medicine at USC (VaccinateLA, StayConnectedLA) and ACTransformative Media.
For more information, please contact Laura Stoddard (laura.stoddard@med.usc.edu).
Story Map
This story map was designed by Rima Habre, ScD, and the MADRES Center team to shed light on environmental health disparities along racial and ethnic lines, susceptibility, built environment and COVID-19 spread in MADRES communities. MADRES (Maternal And Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors) is a Center of Excellence on environmental health disparities research. It was established in 2015 and is directed by Carrie Breton, ScD, and Theresa Bastain, PhD. It is housed in the Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, at the University of Southern California.
Rima Habre, ScD, MSc
Associate Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine
habre@usc.edu
Carrie Breton, ScD
Associate Professor
breton@usc.edu
Theresa Bastain, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine
bastain@usc.edu
Jill Johnson, PhD
Assistant Professor
jillj@usc.edu
Shohreh Farzan, PhD
Assistant Professor
sffarzan@usc.edu
Claudia Toledo Corral, PhD
Assistant Professor
ctoledo@usc.edu
Genevieve Dunton, PhD
Professor
dunton@usc.edu
Remy Landon, MPH
Health Program Analyst,
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
remylandon@gmail.com
Wendy Gutschow, MPH
Project Coordinator
wgutscho@usc.edu