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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investigating barriers to vaccine uptake: a large-scale - researchgate.net -
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‘How do we improve trust in prevention? The answer lies closer to home than y... -
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Interview: How COVID reshaped attitudes to vaccination - VaccinesToday -
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Rise of vaccine distrust - why more of us are questioning jabs - BBC -
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Guiding global conversations in vaccine hesitancy - BMJ Group -
Posted on Fri Jan 13, 2023, 8:00 am
Global COVID-19 vaccine acceptance rising but hesitancy remains - The London ... -
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The Vaccine-Hesitant Moment - The New England Journal of Medicine -
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Vaccine hesitancy expert says fear and emotion are neglected dimension of hea... -
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How misinformation, medical mistrust fuel vaccine hesitancy - Stanford Medicine -
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Vaccine hesitancy: Heidi Larson - The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Med... -
Posted on Wed Jun 16, 2021, 7:00 am
Building trust and relationships is key in changing vaccine-hesitant minds - ... -
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Heidi Larson, Vaccine Anthropologist - The New Yorker -
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Heidi Larson awarded Edinburgh Medal for work in understanding vaccine misinf... -
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Public-health power couple takes on Brussels - politico.eu -
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Antivaccine activists use a government database on side effects to scare the ... -
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What Have We Learned from COVID-19? - National Foundation for Infectious Dise... -
Posted on Fri Mar 26, 2021, 9:42 am
Stuck: How Vaccine Rumours Start – and Why they Don’t Go Away - The London Sc... -
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The Fight Against Vaccine Misinformation - The New Yorker -
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International Women’s Day: Heidi Larson and the fight against vaccine hesitan... -
Posted on Mon Nov 30, 2020, 8:00 am
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