On the Vaccine Front Lines

Diane Redsky

Byron QJ Beardy

Redsky Campbell

Vaccines have emerged as an important and highly effective public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, many are also hesitant about this technology, especially with Black and Indigenous and other people of colour (BIPOC). This session will highlight some successful vaccine programmes focused on urban and on-reserve Indigenous populations, to assess some of the cultural and political dimensions of their use on the front lines in Canada, and to explore traditional Indigenous responses to Covid – in combination with or in isolation of vaccines.