CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation

The GHPC and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Vaccine Confidence Project™ have launched a high-level panel of experts to address the urgent issues of vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, and national security in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis

The panel is co-chaired by J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and GHPC Director, and Heidi J. Larson, Professor of Anthropology, Risk, and Decision Science, and Director, Vaccine Confidence Project™, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The panel’s secretariat is based at GHPC and is headed by Katherine E. Bliss, Project Director and GHPC Senior Fellow, and Michaela Simoneau, GHPC Program Manager.

Working through the spring of 2021, the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation will analyze the diverse forms of vaccine hesitancy in the United States and their links to international phenomena; identify the roles social media and misinformation play in driving hesitancy and acceptance trends; examine the ways in which vaccine hesitancy and misinformation undermine national security; and articulate practical policy recommendations for managing misinformation related to demand for, and uptake of, vaccines, with an emphasis on a Covid-19 vaccine once one is available.

The panel’s work is supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation.

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Vaccine Confidence Project™

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Vaccine Confidence Project™

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To learn more, see the full digital project and the CSIS report, highlighted above.

Bolstering Community Trust in Covid-19 Vaccines

The choices people make about Covid-19 vaccination will determine community health, economic recovery, and even national security for years to come. Why are we facing a crisis in vaccine confidence in the United States, and what can be done to earn community trust? Hear expert takes on these issues from Katherine E. Bliss, senior fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center; Denise A. Gray-Felder, founding president and CEO of the Communication for Social Change Consortium; Heidi J. Larson, professor of Anthropology, Risk, and Decision Science and director of the Vaccine Confidence Project™ at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center; and LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, director of the District of Columbia Department of Health.

Turning the Tide on Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation

The rise of digital social media has revolutionized how information is shared, democratizing opportunities for broadly sharing news and opinion while also creating harbors for unverified misinformation. How have vaccines become entangled in these online debates, and what steps can be taken to ensure accurate and compelling public health messages reach people instead? Hear expert takes on these issues from Katherine E. Bliss, senior fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center; James A. Lewis, senior vice president and director of the CSIS Strategic Technologies Program; J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center; and Sarah Shirazyan, content policy manager at Facebook, Inc

American Security Means Global Immunity against Covid-19

Achieving widespread immunity, through high acceptance and uptake of Covid-19 vaccines, is a critical step to slowing coronavirus transmission and ending the acute phase of the pandemic. But if disinformation and dissent undermine confidence in vaccines, slowing U.S. and global vaccination campaigns, could distrust impede the U.S. recovery and undermine national and global security? Hear expert takes on these issues from Katherine E. Bliss, senior fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center; Margaret Hamburg, former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Juliette Kayyem, senior Belfer lecturer in International Security at the Harvard Kennedy School; Heidi J. Larson, professor of Anthropology, Risk, and Decision Science and director of the Vaccine Confidence Project™ at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; and J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

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Coronavirus Crisis Update

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Heidi Larson – Time to Reset our Thinking on Vaccines

We gather to discuss with Dr. Heidi Larson about her new book, Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why they Don’t Go Away, a wake-up call and appeal to re-think what drives popular distrust in science and rising levels of vaccine refusal and hesitancy.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — September 10, 2020

CSIS Coronavirus Crisis Update

The Risks of Misinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy within the Covid-19 Crisis

Combating misinformation about Covid-19 and strengthening the U.S. population’s confidence in vaccines, particularly once a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine becomes available, is an urgent national security matter.

Commentary by Katherine E. Bliss, J. Stephen Morrison, and Heidi J. Larson — September 4, 2020