Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 5/19/21


As NC State Extension continues its effort to deliver vaccine education to North Carolina farmworkers, a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty member is playing a leading role in a nationwide vaccine education effort in rural America.

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, an associate professor and Extension specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences, is helping guide national market research for a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded effort being delivered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Both Haynes-Maslow’s work and the N.C. farmworker vaccine education program are supported by a program called EXCITE – short for the Extension Collaboration on Immunization Teaching and Education. The CDC recently provided $9.9 million to USDA’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to fund EXCITE’s innovative approach to community education and partnerships that advance adult immunization.

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