Demetre Daskalakis, who had been director of the CDC’s division on HIV/AIDS prevention, will become Senior Vaccine Equity Lead, according to the memo. Before joining the CDC last year, he was incident commander for covid-19 at New York City’s health department. Chief among them is Marcella Nunez-Smith, a former associate dean for health equity research at the Yale School of Medicine who is chairing the administration’s covid-19 health equity task force. The challenges he now faces in ensuring vaccine equity are immense. As of March 15, 44 states were delineating vaccination data by race and ethnicity, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2021 17:07 UTC