Religious Identities and the Race Against the Virus: Tracking Faith-Based Approaches to Vaccination

On Wednesday, July 28, 2021, John Palfrey, President of the MacArthur Foundation, hosted a conversation with PRRI’s Robert P. Jones and Natalie Jackson, IFYC’s Eboo Patel, and Rush University’s Dr. Tanya Sorrell for the release and in-depth discussion of a major new national survey on the role that religious identity, beliefs, and behaviors have on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy.

They discussed findings from the survey on the role that faith-based outreach, including trusted messengers and messages, may play in increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake. The conversation addressed sources of vaccine hesitancy and recommend faith-based approaches—backed by survey research—to increase vaccine uptake among the nation’s most hesitant, and even resistant, communities.

The survey, Religious Identities and the Race Against the Virus: Success and Opportunities for Engaging Faith Communities on COVID-19 Vaccination (Wave 2: June 2021).

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