Megan Srinivas featured in COVID Latino campaign video

Megan Srinivas, MD, MPH, a TraCS TL1 Scholar and UNC Infectious Disease physician, is featured on a new video as part of the COVID Latino outreach project.

The film documents the COVID Latino campaign—a health communication campaign that merges the social/health sciences with the arts to produce culturally-tailored COVID-19 information for Latinx communities.

"Really seeing my patients in the rural atmosphere—seeing a lot of my Spanish-speaking patients...who might not have access to the same care as everybody else in this country, made me realize that there's a huge gap there that needed to be filled," says Srinivas. "Much of the information...about COVID-19 in the early part of the pandemic was completely in English, and it also presumed a certain level Health Literacy; it wasn't accessible to many of my patients. So working with...the entire team behind COVID Latino was really motivated by trying to fill this gap, and by being on the ground—seeing what my patients are asking me and what they don't have access to has helped to inform how we should move these videos forward, which information we should really address first, and what the biggest crises are that are keeping people from making safe decisions for themselves in this pandemic."

Watch the video below:

View all of the COVID Latino videos at youtube.com.