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The Vaccine Confidence Project™ (VCP) was established in 2010 by Professor Heidi Larson at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to better understand growing vaccine scepticism around the world.
The VCP was the first research group to map and monitor public confidence in vaccination at a global scale and remains the only research group fully dedicated to understanding the roots, trends over time, and impacts of vaccine confidence.
By listening to early signs of public distrust and providing risk analysis and guidance, we aim to engage early to prevent potential programme disruptions and support vaccination rates.
About the VCP
Latest research projects
The VCP conducts global research, investigating the roots, trends over time and impacts of vaccine confidence at regional, national and sub-national levels.
The VCP-Africa CDC working group has been conducting quantitative research in multiple waves from 2020 to 2022.
In 2018, the European Commission engaged the Vaccine Confidence Project to create the first “State of Vaccine Confidence in the EU” report. Since then, the VCP has conducted bi-annual research to map and monitor public attitudes to vaccines across the region and examine trends over time.
To identify knowledge gaps, beliefs and attitudes in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among adults in the Asia-Pacific region, the Vaccine Confidence Project conducted two waves of quantitative research in 2021 and 2022.
The UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (UNICEF ECARO) and the VCP worked in partnership to better understand the impact of social media on caregivers’ attitudes, beliefs, trust, immunisation intention and uptake.
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Our team has conducted research in over 150 countries from 2015 to the present, helping to identify critical global trends in vaccine confidence with implications for global health.
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Abstract This article uses novel data collected on a weekly basis covering more than 35,000 individuals in the EU to analyze the relationship between trust…
The workshop featured a series of presentations – including from VCP Founder and Co-Director Prof. Heidi J Larson – on the nature, mechanisms, and differential impacts of misinformation about science.
The data for the report was collected by The VCP. India, China and Mexico were the only 3 countries out of the 55 surveyed where there was an increase in respondents agreeing that vaccines are important for children to have.
New data collected by The Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and published today by UNICEF indicates a decrease in vaccine confidence in most countries.