Heidi J. Larson

Founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at LSHTM. Leading researcher on vaccine confidence, hesitancy, and the role of misinformation and trust in vaccine acceptance worldwide. Pioneer in studying how social media and online communication shape vaccine uptake.

Sources in this wiki

• Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA

Topics

• Vaccine confidence, Vaccine hesitancy and vaccine safety concerns, Vaccine misinformation, Trust in institutions and communicators, Social media and misinformation

Notes

Larson has been instrumental in documenting the 2019 rise of vaccine hesitancy to WHO's top ten global health threats and continues leading large-scale studies on misinformation's impact on public health decision-making.