IA2030 Lighting Chat with Heidi Larson: How do we strengthen confidence in COVID-19 vaccination?

Are you involved in COVID-19 vaccination? Are you working to strengthen confidence in vaccines to improve vaccine uptake? At Teach to Reach: Connect 5 on March 4, 2022, over 8,500 national and sub-national immunization staff met to network and learn by sharing the strategies they have successfully used to strengthen confidence in COVID-19 vaccination. In today’s Lightning Chat, we discuss these locally-grounded strategies with Heidi Larson. Prof. Heidi J. Larson is an anthropologist and Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). What we learned about how to overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy    • Insights Live #4: What we are learning fro...   Teach to Reach Dialogue: Challenging vaccine hesitancy in districts and health facilities    • Teach to Reach Dialogue: Challenging vacci...   On 17th June at Teach to Reach Connect: 6, The Geneva Learning Foundation’s Insights Unit will launch the report: Overcoming barriers to vaccine acceptance in the community: Key learning from the experiences of 734 frontline health workers. Subscribe to TGLF’s Insight to receive selected excerpts as well as the full report https://www.learning.foundation/insights The report analyses 734 case studies developed by frontline health workers in November 2020 as part of the COVID-19 Peer Hub, a peer learning exercise led by The Geneva Learning Foundation. This Lightning Chat is, in a way, a follow-up to a workshop with Heidi Larson – a few months before COVID-19 vaccine began to reach countries in Africa – where she met Members of the COVID-19 Peer Hub who had just completed developing case studies of how they successfully overcame vaccine hesitancy. View the COVID-19 Peer Hub Vaccine Confidence Workshop with Heidi Larson (17 December 2020)    • COVID-19 Peer Hub: Vaccine confidence work...   The Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) is conducting global studies to track public sentiment and emotions around current and potential measures to contain and treat COVID-19, as well as, more generally, exploring how to better understand and strengthen public trust. Many members of the COVID-19 Peer Hub are now active in the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030. Learn more about the Movement: https://www.learning.foundation/immun... Vaccine hesitancy: Testimonies and case studies from the COVID-19 Peer Hub    • Vaccine hesitancy: Testimonies and case st...   COVID-19 vaccine introduction: Q&A with Susan MacKay from GAVI about vaccine hesitancy    • COVID-19 vaccine introduction: Q&A with Su...   COVID-19 Peer Hub workshop with Lisa Menning (WHO): Exploring vaccine hesitancy and demand promotion    • COVID-19 Peer Hub workshop with Lisa Menni...