Risk Less. Do More. | Empowering Care at Home Teams with HHS’s Pan Respiratory Virus Campaign Resources

Description

In partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Alliance invites care-at-home professionals to join a crucial webinar on implementing the Risk Less. Do More. Pan Respiratory Virus Campaign for the 2024-2025 season. This session will equip teams with strategic resources to enhance vaccine literacy among patients and families, focusing on implementing targeted vaccination strategies, analyzing infection risks, and developing patient-centered access plans for flu, COVID-19, and RSV vaccines. Expert presenters will highlight care-at-home care providers’ critical role in reducing respiratory virus public health burdens while empowering informed vaccination decisions for vulnerable populations through comprehensive education and community partnerships.

Learning Outcomes:

• • • Outline specific strategies for implementing the PRV campaign within home and community-based care settings.
    • Evaluate infection risks, clinical impacts, and vaccine characteristics for older adults.
    • Develop patient-centered plans to overcome vaccination access barriers and promote vaccine uptake for care-at-home patients.

Speakers:

Kelly Langford
Online Communications Director
Department of Health and Human Services

Kelly Langford is the Online Communications Director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), currently serving as the Paid Media Director for the 2024-2025 Public Education Campaign on Pan-Respiratory Viruses. Kelly has experience managing digital engagement programs across the public and private sector, with an emphasis on targeted, multi-channel campaigns.

Kari Benson
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aging
Administration for Community Living

As the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aging, Kari Benson leads the Administration on Aging in advocating on behalf of older Americans. In this capacity, she guides and promotes the development of home and community-based long-term care programs, policies, and services designed to afford older people and their caregivers the ability to age with dignity and independence and to have a broad array of options available for an enhanced quality of life.

Kari’s entire career has been in the aging network, most recently serving as the director of the Aging and Adult Services Division of the Minnesota Department of Human Services and as the executive director of the Minnesota Board on Aging.  Through these dual roles, she oversaw the full range of federal- and state-funded HCBS for older adults, their families, and the friends, neighbors, and others who provide informal caregiving support.

Kari holds a bachelor’s degree in human ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree in public policy from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. 

Florence Momplaisir, MD, MSHP
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Division of Infectious Diseases, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Florence Momplaisir, MD, MSHP is an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases (ID) and the Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in ID at the Perelman School of Medicine. Her clinical research focuses on improving postpartum retention and viral suppression of women with HIV and on decreasing racial disparities in HIV prevalence among U.S. populations. In particular, her research focuses on using peer-led and organizational-led behavioral interventions to improve HIV care continuum outcomes of people with HIV. Dr. Momplaisir has expertise in using mixed-method, community-based, and implementation research in her work.

She has been heavily involved in community outreach efforts addressing hesitancy to COVID-19 vaccines and evaluated determinants of vaccine hesitancy. She has also led community educational efforts to increase participation of racial and ethnic minorities in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials and to decrease hesitancy post-trial. In the process, she has participated in numerous town halls with African American clergy and has worked closely with a coalition of barbershop and salon owners that have resulted in them serving as vaccine ambassadors. This collaboration has resulted in multiple publications and community-led strategies to address vaccine hesitancy through education materials that barbershop and salon owners distribute in their shops, outreach on social media, and community mobilization.

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