COVID-19 Vaccination Toolkit

This document is a compilation of resources by National APAMSA that address vaccine hesitancy and access for AANHPI communities, particularly focused on providing linguistically and culturally appropriate information.

Are you up to date on all of your COVID-19 vaccination shot? Have you heard about the new “bivalent” booster shot that protect against both the original COVID-19 virus and the Omicron variant BA.4 and BA.5?

Printable COVID-19 materials related to prevention, travel, vaccination, and other topics are available in a variety of languages such as: Burmese, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Lao, Marshallese, Nepali, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, etc.

The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organization has a COVID-19 Resources Hub that includes: Resources for COVID-19 Vaccine, Multilingual and Culturally Appropriate Materials, and COVID-19 Toolkits. Includes Pacific Islander Languages such as: Chamorro, Hawaiian, Marshallese, Samoan, and Tongan.

Read “Differences in COVID-19 Vaccine Concerns Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: The COMPASS Survey.”

Explore the COVID-19 Data Tracker by the CDC that tracks vaccinations by state as well as race and ethnicity.

Listen to a short podcast on The Dose, about racism against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contribute translated health materials or language-learning materials. We are currently recruiting any and all language-related materials that you may have for a new database that will be shared on our APAMSA website and that can assist chapters in serving such communities.