OXFORD, Ohio — More people may be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, but not everyone is rushing to get it. One aspiring doctor is trying something different to get vaccine information to people.
What You Need To Know
- Miami University student Juliana Zacher became an intern for the group “We Engage 4 Health” and started to help write the comic storyline
- It’s a National Institutions of Health Funded project
- Copies of the educational comic are for kids and adults and can be printed off online; it also includes facts and information
Juliana Zacher, a student at Miami University, knows she wants to be a doctor.
“My goal is to become a physician and I’m interested in patient care,” said Zacher.
What she didn’t know was that she’d get some needed experience from a cartoon.
“You might see the comics and think ‘oh this is just for kids,’ but it’s really for everyone,” said Zacher.
She’s an intern for a National Institutions of Health funded project called, ‘We Engage 4 Health.’
She became a part of an effort to inform the community about the COVID-19 vaccine.
“We are all going through the pandemic and thinking about what my little sister, and what my little sister, what might she want to know cause she doesn’t have as much science education at this point,” said Zacher.
She used her research to find medical information with a team and helped write ‘Take Your Best Shot,’ a comic-style book.
“We’ll discuss what to put in there, I took notes on it and from there, I put together a rough draft that goes through a lot of feedback from the team,” said Zacher.
The story surrounds several characters hesitant about getting the vaccine. Readers may then turn to the facts she and her team found about it.
“What I like about them is the characters really express a lot of the same concerns or interest or excitement that I feel and I think a lot of the people who read this would feel,” said Zacher.
She said she plans to continue her research and studies along the way to becoming a doctor to keep making a difference.
A complete version of ‘Take Your Best Shot’ may be read online or a printed copy may be requested.
