Topic: Risk Communications

The world’s richest countries are now its most vaccine-hesitant. Can we learn to trust our shots before the next pandemic?

This research aims to develop and evaluate a suite of feasible interventions based on artificial intelligence technologies checking extensions, real-time dashboards, and chatbots – that improve the ability to debunk misinformation, boost self-efficacy in the vaccination decision-making process.

This research applies communication and behavioural theories to comprehensively assess confidence in and acceptance of HPV vaccines in Japan, Korea, and China amongst people who have not received the vaccine, in order to develop effective digital communication strategies to increase uptake.

The IRIS Academic Research Group was founded by some of the world’s leading researchers and academic institutions and launched in June 2021 at the inaugural Global Vaccine Confidence Summit as part of the UK government’s G7 Presidency.

Overview ​​The global community of practice around HPV vaccination is not formalised to cut across multiple disciplines, and thought leaders from low-…

Overview Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the fourth biggest cause of mortality amongst women in Brazil according to the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) but COVID-19…

Years of lies and rumours about COVID have had a contagion effect, damaging public acceptance of all vaccines, said…

Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health has created a series of unbranded research-based tools to equip vaccine confidence efforts in Africa.

It’s so easy to think “vaccine-derived” means that people contract polio from the vaccine itself.

In this review article, examples of hesitancy regarding the measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), human papillomavirus (HPV), and COVID-19 vaccines are used to explore the multifaceted issues that fuel vaccine hesitancy. Each of these examples is part of a larger, more complex story.

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.

Prof Hannah Fry meets seven unvaccinated people to investigate why around four million adults remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, and to find out…