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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Interview: How COVID reshaped attitudes to vaccination - VaccinesToday -
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Vaccine hesitancy expert says fear and emotion are neglected dimension of hea... -
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Vaccine hesitancy: Heidi Larson - The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Med... -
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How misinformation, medical mistrust fuel vaccine hesitancy - Stanford Medicine -
Posted on Sat Jun 12, 2021, 7:00 am
Heidi Larson, Vaccine Anthropologist - The New Yorker -
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Public-health power couple takes on Brussels - politico.eu -
Posted on Fri May 21, 2021, 7:00 am
Interview: Risk Expert Heidi J. Larson on Vaccine Hesitancy - Undark Magazine -
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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... -
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How A Vaccine Whisperer Gets It Done - The Cut -
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Vaccine misinformation can be fatal – how can we counter it? - New Scientist -
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Understanding vaccine hesitancy - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance -
Posted on Mon Nov 16, 2020, 8:00 am
Heidi Larson interview: How to stop covid-19 vaccine hesitancy - New Scientist -
Posted on Tue Oct 13, 2020, 7:00 am
She Hunts Viral Rumors About Real Viruses (Published 2020) - The New York Times -
Posted on Sat Sep 26, 2020, 7:00 am
investigating barriers to vaccine uptake: a large-scale - researchgate.net -
Posted on Thu Sep 17, 2020, 7:00 am
How to counter the anti-vaxxers: our World Vs Virus podcast - The World Econo...
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