FOI 2455 – release documents – COVID-19 multicultural data

This request was for correspondence from 1 March to 14 July 2021 with the national Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities COVID-19 Health Advisory Group specifically relating to the vaccine rollout and the capturing of data such as 'country of birth', 'language spoken' and 'ethnicity'

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FOI 2455 – Documents Released

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FOI number:
2455-2022
FOI release date:
Publication type:
Report
Audience:
General public
Description:

The types of documents disclosed include email correspondence between the Department of Health and members of the national Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities COVID-19 Health Advisory Group and attachments to those emails. The content of the emails includes correspondence for meeting arrangements on the topic of multicultural data; deliberative discussion about the required indicators to collect and report data on vaccine coverage for multicultural communities, such as 'country of birth' and 'language spoken'; correspondence about the COVID-19 vaccine program; information about the linkage of the Australian Immunisation Register to the Multi-Agency Data Integration Project;

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