How to Talk about Vaccines in an Era of Scientific Mistrust

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VCP Founder and Co-Director Professor Heidi. J Larson delivers the 2022 Merrimon Lecture at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

This guide provides practical evidence-based and peer-reviewed advice for public health programme managers and communicators involved with immunisation services.

The way to discuss a vaccine, says Prof. Heidi Larson, founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, is to ask your patient how they feel about it and go from there, addressing patient concerns and developing a risk-benefit analysis to discuss.

In the oil towns of west Texas, a measles outbreak is spreading. Gaines County, where the flare-up began, had the state’s third-highest share of children exempt from measles and other vaccines for religious or philosophical reasons last year