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In this Global Health Coffee Session at the Harvard Global Health Institute, VCP founder Heidi J. Larson unpacks how misinformation spreads and strategies for rebuilding public trust in public health in a time of doubt.

Join us for the LSHTM Vaccine Centre’s Annual Lecture with Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, exploring practical tools to address vaccine hesitancy. Discover the Empathetic Refutational Interview (ERI) — a proven, human-centred approach for building trust and countering misinformation.

19 May 2025 | 17:30 BST | John Snow Lecture Theatre A

We co-hosted a webinar with the Nigeria Solidarity Support Fund (NSSF) and the Vaccine Data CoLab on “Optimizing Vaccine Uptake in Nigeria through Increased Demand and Use of Data.”

Watch part one of the Global Health Cast’s new series on COVID-19, presented by Prof. Joe Schmitt, Prof. Catherine Weil-Olivier, and the VCP’s very own Dr Emilie Karafillakis.

Listen to the CommonHealth Podcast by VCP partner The Centre for Strategic & International Studies to learn more about the Vaccine Integrity Project (VIP) – a new initiative spearheading responses to vaccine-related actions taken by the second Trump administration.

Ben Plumley, Managing Director of our sister organisation the Global Listening Project, checks in with Professors’ Heidi Larson and Leesa Lin as they share the first top-line results from the Project’s 70-country societal preparedness index

In this interview with the New Book Network, author and Professor Heidi J. Larson discusses the research that informed her book Stuck, and how things have changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Heidi Larson joins the Edelman Trust Institute’s Justin Blake for the final instalment of our Davos series.

We are appalled to find that the content on the CDC webpage “Autism and Vaccines” has been changed and distorted, and is now filled with anti-vaccine rhetoric and outright lies about vaccines and autism, writes the Autism Science Foundation.

There’s no link between vaccines and autism, says The American Academy of Pediatrics. Anyone repeating this harmful myth is misinformed or intentionally trying to mislead parents. We call on the CDC to stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims that sow doubt in routine immunizations.

An extraordinary effort will be needed to sustain confidence in vaccines, given the unprecedented level of misinformation being propagated about them, even from official sources, writes Heidi J. Larson, Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project.

The global health community faces a deepening challenge — not only from infectious diseases but also
from a pandemic of misinformation, argues VCP founder, Heidi J. Larson.