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Quality Café: BRAIDing Trust: Building HPV Vaccine Confidence through Community Conversations

January 14, 2026 | 1200 – 1300

Health Quality BC

Online (Zoom)

Quality-Cafe


Event Description

Join us for an inspiring hour with the developers of the Bridging Research, Accurate Information & Dialogue (BRAID) Model, a powerful, community-driven approach to building understanding and confidence in important health topics. Developed in New York, this model brings health care providers and community members together to listen, learn, and co-create trusted messages that address real questions and foster lasting trust. Hear how teams in British Columbia are adapting the approach to strengthen local connections and build confidence in HPV vaccination. Our hope is to make collaboration with community an easy and rewarding choice.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Describe how community-driven approaches like BRAID can build trust and improve understanding of complex health topics, like HPV vaccinations
  • Identify practical ways to apply lessons from BRAID to strengthen collaboration between health care providers and communities.

Presenters

Damara Gutnick, MD
Senior Director, Office of Community and Population Health
Montefiore Medical Center – New York

Debra A. Williams, EdD, MS
Senior Project Manager, Office of Community and Population Health
Montefiore Medical Center – New York

Jami Brown
Engagement Leader, Health System Improvement
Health Quality BC

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Event Details

Quality Café: BRAIDing Trust: Building HPV Vaccine Confidence through Community Conversations

Date and Time

January 14, 2026 | 1200 – 1300 PT

Organizer

Health Quality BC

Location

Online

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We specifically acknowledge and express our gratitude to the keepers of the lands of the ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where our main office is located.

We also recognize Métis people and Métis Chartered Communities, as well as the Inuit and urban Indigenous peoples living across the province on various traditional territories.