Exclusive: NIH Funds Trial of Smartphone Tool to Push Pro-HPV Vaccine Messages to Parents of Minority

Exclusive: NIH Funds Trial of Smartphone Tool to Push Pro-HPV Vaccine Messages to Parents of Minority, Lower-Income Children

by Megan Redshaw, Childrens Health Defense: The $519,399, four-year grant aims to increase uptake of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine among underserved adolescents whose parents are “vaccine-hesitant,” documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense via a Freedom of Information Act request revealed. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding research at Nashville, Tennessee’s  Meharry […]