Topic: Misinformation

This submission, from a leading international team of misinformation and public health researchers, sets out the evidence linking misinformation to declining childhood vaccine confidence in the UK.

How do we build trust in an era of misinformation, social media, and artificial intelligence? In this episode of Infectious IDeas, NFID CEO Rebecca Alvania, PhD, MA, MPH, and NFID Medical Director Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., MD, talk with Heidi J. Larson, PhD, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project.

It is time to systematically address misinformation and disinformation in a health context. A new VCP-led Lancet
Commission on rethinking misinformation, health, and human security will be convene transdisciplinary experts from to rethink a systems approach to these threats.

VCP Founder and Director Prof. Heidi Larson talks to ‘Prepared, not Panicked: The Health Crisis Podcast’ about how mis- and disinformation undermine vaccine uptake, and what the EU can do about it.

What the organ donation system can learn from global experiences with vaccine programs.

We are appalled to find that the content on the CDC webpage “Autism and Vaccines” has been changed and distorted, and is now filled with anti-vaccine rhetoric and outright lies about vaccines and autism, writes the Autism Science Foundation.

There’s no link between vaccines and autism, says The American Academy of Pediatrics. Anyone repeating this harmful myth is misinformed or intentionally trying to mislead parents. We call on the CDC to stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims that sow doubt in routine immunizations.

An extraordinary effort will be needed to sustain confidence in vaccines, given the unprecedented level of misinformation being propagated about them, even from official sources, writes Heidi J. Larson, Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project.

The global health community faces a deepening challenge — not only from infectious diseases but also
from a pandemic of misinformation, argues VCP founder, Heidi J. Larson.

Listen to the CommonHealth Podcast by VCP partner The Centre for Strategic & International Studies to learn more about the Vaccine Integrity Project (VIP) – a new initiative spearheading responses to vaccine-related actions taken by the second Trump administration.

VCP founder Heidi J. Larson named one of the most dynamic business women shaping the future for her role in building bridges of trust in the fight against misinformation and vaccine hesitancy.

In this Global Health Coffee Session at the Harvard Global Health Institute, VCP founder Heidi J. Larson unpacks how misinformation spreads and strategies for rebuilding public trust in public health in a time of doubt.