Thought Leader Profile
Heidi Larson
Director, The Vaccine Confidence Project
Heidi Larson, PhD, is a research associate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development and associate research professor of International Development at Clark University. She is a specialist in risk analysis and is currently working on a book on risk and rumor in global health, analyzing the rumor-driven polio vaccine boycott in Nigeria, along with other examples of managing public questioning and rumors in public health.
Heidi has served as a senior adviser to the UN and other international organizations on a number of public-health issues, including AIDS, TB, and child health and vaccines, particularly focusing on the socio-cultural and political determinants of health, including the role of religion and belief systems. She has also advised on anticipating and managing organizational risks and rumor.
Heidi is currently coordinating a UNAIDS-commissioned initiative called aids2031, which is bringing together economists, epidemiologists, and biomedical, social, and political scientists to map future options for the AIDS response. 2031 will mark 50 years since AIDS was first reported.
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Posted on Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:24 am
Expert comment: Developing a systems approach to health misinformation - LSHTM -
Posted on Wed Nov 12, 2025, 8:00 am
The outlook for vaccines is stormy, argues Heidi Larson - The Economist -
Posted on Thu Oct 16, 2025, 7:00 am
The role of trusted evidence in fighting vaccine disinformation - Cochrane.org -
Posted on Thu Jun 26, 2025, 7:00 am
Distrust in public-health institutions is not just an American problem - The ... -
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‘How do we improve trust in prevention? The answer lies closer to home than y... -
Posted on Thu Apr 20, 2023, 7:00 am
Confidence in child vaccination declined during COVID-19 pandemic, report say... -
Posted on Fri Jan 13, 2023, 8:00 am
Global COVID-19 vaccine acceptance rising but hesitancy remains - LSHTM -
Posted on Wed Jun 29, 2022, 7:00 am
The Vaccine-Hesitant Moment - The New England Journal of Medicine -
Posted on Thu Feb 3, 2022, 8:00 am
COVID-19 in Europe: new challenges for addressing vaccine hesitancy - The Lancet -
Posted on Tue Oct 5, 2021, 7:00 am
Vaccine hesitancy expert says fear and emotion are neglected dimension of hea... -
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Vaccine hesitancy: Heidi Larson - LSHTM -
Posted on Thu Sep 2, 2021, 7:00 am
How misinformation, medical mistrust fuel vaccine hesitancy - Stanford Medicine -
Posted on Wed Jun 16, 2021, 7:00 am
Building trust and relationships is key in changing vaccine-hesitant minds - ... -
Posted on Sat Jun 12, 2021, 7:00 am
Heidi Larson, Vaccine Anthropologist - The New Yorker -
Posted on Thu Jun 3, 2021, 7:00 am
Public-health power couple takes on Brussels - politico.eu -
Posted on Thu Jun 3, 2021, 7:00 am
Heidi Larson awarded Edinburgh Medal for work in understanding vaccine misinf... -
Posted on Wed May 26, 2021, 7:00 am
Heidi Larson: Holistic approach vital to vaccine confidence - Devex -
Posted on Wed Apr 14, 2021, 7:00 am
Stuck: How Vaccine Rumours Start – and Why they Don’t Go Away - LSHTM -
Posted on Tue Apr 6, 2021, 7:00 am
What Have We Learned from COVID-19? - National Foundation for Infectious Dise... -
Posted on Mon Mar 8, 2021, 8:00 am
International Women’s Day: Heidi Larson and the fight against vaccine hesitan...
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