Geospatial Mapping of Vaccine Hesitancy in 10 African Countries

Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health has worked with Fraym to create a series of geospatial mapping reports aimed at improving hyper-local understanding of vaccine hesitancy across sub-saharan Africa. The reports combine psycho-behavioral segmentation with community-level mapping of population segments to demonstrate the characteristics of vaccine hesitant populations and where they are situated.

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2021 - 2022

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Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health

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