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ITCA TEC Vaccine education

Tribal health leaders explain vaccines to their own communities, in their own words.

The project

Here's what happened.

Here are the basics, followed by the short version of the story with the film beside it:

Client
ITCA TEC
Goal
Awareness
Industry
Education & research
Services
Story, Production, Editing

ITCA's Tribal Epidemiology Center needed vaccine education for communities with good reason to distrust government health programs. Standard messaging had backfired, so our research pointed us to tribal health leaders and community members telling it in their own words. This breakdown walks through every choice we made.

The SITREP

What our research changed.

Before we filmed anything, we did our SITREP research into ITCA TEC's work, the people it serves and the field around it. It changed the plan, and here's how:

  1. 01

    Where things stood

    ITCA's Tribal Epidemiology Center needed vaccine education for communities with good reason to doubt government health programs.

  2. 02

    What we found

    Our research showed that standard messaging had backfired, and that people needed to hear from their own leaders rather than outside authorities.

  3. 03

    What we made

    So we filmed tribal health directors and community members on location, speaking in their own words.

The numbers

The numbers around it.

We like to show the bigger picture around a project. These are public numbers, and each one comes with its source:

  • 1.4xFlu hospitalization rate for American Indian and Alaska Native adults compared with White adults, 2009 to 2023Source: CDC
  • 35%American Indian and Alaska Native adults who got a flu shot in the 2023 to 2024 seasonSource: CDC
  • 21Tribal nations in the Inter Tribal Council of ArizonaSource: ITCA

Our work

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