Strengthening access to and confidence in COVID-19 vaccines among equity-deserving populations across Canada: An exploratory qualitative study

• Kainat Bashir ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kainat.bashir@mail.utoronto.ca

  ¶‡ KB and MOO authors are co-first authorship on this work. AA, ASAF and SA authors contributed equally as supervisors to the lead authors and as co-senior responsible authors.

  Affiliation Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1498-7322

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• Mariame O. Ouedraogo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KB and MOO authors are co-first authorship on this work. AA, ASAF and SA authors contributed equally as supervisors to the lead authors and as co-senior responsible authors.

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Christoffer Dharma,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5223-5755

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• Mercedes Sobers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Office of Health Equity, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7571-5997

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• Vajini Atukorale,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Dane Mauer-Vakil,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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• Anushka Ataullahjan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KB and MOO authors are co-first authorship on this work. AA, ASAF and SA authors contributed equally as supervisors to the lead authors and as co-senior responsible authors.

  Affiliations Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, School of Health Studies, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Shaza A. Fadel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KB and MOO authors are co-first authorship on this work. AA, ASAF and SA authors contributed equally as supervisors to the lead authors and as co-senior responsible authors.

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Sara Allin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KB and MOO authors are co-first authorship on this work. AA, ASAF and SA authors contributed equally as supervisors to the lead authors and as co-senior responsible authors.

  Affiliations Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0579-8985

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