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Ben Plumley, Managing Director of our sister organisation the Global Listening Project, checks in with Professors’ Heidi Larson and Leesa Lin as they share the first top-line results from the Project’s 70-country societal preparedness index

In this interview with the New Book Network, author and Professor Heidi J. Larson discusses the research that informed her book Stuck, and how things have changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Heidi Larson joins the Edelman Trust Institute’s Justin Blake for the final instalment of our Davos series.

Professor Heidi J. Larson joins Pandemic Planet to discuss how national security threats associated with low confidence in vaccines have changed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Covid pandemic has provoked a fresh wave of hesitancy. According to VCP data, between 2018 and 2023 confidence in vaccine safety, importance and efficacy fell by about 20% in the UK.

Heidi Larson, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, discusses why there is more of a political divide on Covid vaccine acceptance than flu.

Professor Heidi Larson, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project explains how “medical injustices leave distrust not only in individual memories but community memories.”

Artificial intelligence has potential to counter vaccine hesitancy while building trust in vaccines, but it must be deployed ethically and responsibly, argue Heidi Larson and Leesa Lin

Last month, we co-hosted a webinar with The Nigeria Solidarity Support Fund (NSSF) and the Vaccine Data CoLab on “Optimizing Vaccine Uptake in Nigeria through Increased Demand and Use of Data.”

Watch part one of the Global Health Cast’s new series on COVID-19, presented by Prof. Joe Schmitt, Prof. Catherine Weil-Olivier, and the VCP’s very own Dr Emilie Karafillakis.

The workshop featured a series of presentations – including from VCP Founder and Co-Director Prof. Heidi J Larson – on the nature, mechanisms, and differential impacts of misinformation about science.

This information session hosted by the Steering Group on Influenza Vaccination will aim to introduce the EU Flu Day project and this year’s campaign toolkit, in view of the EU Flu Day 2023 coming up in October.