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How the Vaccine Confidence Project is Navigating a Polarised World

Professor Heidi Larson joins the Edelman Trust Institute’s Justin Blake on The TrustMakers podcast for the final instalment of our Davos series. Heidi dives into why she started the Vaccine Confidence Project and how we are working on the ground to build trust in and beyond vaccines. 

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Professor Heidi J. Larson: “The nature of the security threat has changed”

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.

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Call to Action: CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation

Falling U.S. confidence in a COVID-19 vaccine threatens efforts to escape the worst effects of the pandemic.

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CSIS Book Launch with Heidi J. Larson – Stuck

Please join the CSIS Global Health Policy Center to celebrate the launch of Heidi J. Larson’s new book, Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why They Don’t Go Away.

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Co-Chairs’ Statement: Vaccine Confidence, Social Media Misinformation, and National Security within the COVID-19 Crisis

CSIS and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Vaccine Confidence Project™ have launched a…

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January 20, 2023

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  • Polarisation
  • Drivers of and Barriers to Vaccination
  • Social, Structural and Emotional Determinants of Health
  • Vaccine Hesitancy
  • Policy Advisory

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CDC’s New Autism Webpage Distorts Science and Rejects Decades of Evidence on Vaccine Safety

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.

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Statement by AAP President Susan J. Kressly, MD, FAAP on Changes to CDC’s Website on Autism

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.

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The outlook for vaccines is stormy, argues Heidi Larson

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.

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