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Exploratory study of the global intent to accept COVID-19 vaccinations

Between October 31, 2020 and December 15, 2020, 26,759 individuals were surveyed across 32 countries via nationally representative survey designs. Bayesian methods are used to estimate COVID-19 vaccination acceptance and explore the sociodemographic determinants of uptake, as well as the link between self-reported health and faith in the government’s handling of the pandemic and acceptance.

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State of Vaccine Confidence in the EU

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.

Publications
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and its socio-demographic and emotional determinants: A multi-country cross-sectional study

In this large-scale multi-country study, we explored intent to accept a COVID-19 vaccine and the socio-demographic and emotional determinants of uptake for 17 countries.

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Public Perceptions and Uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine in Asia-Pacific countries

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.

Data Visualisations
The State of Vaccine Confidence, 2016

​​In this study we assessed the overall state of confidence in vaccines among the public in all 27 EU member states.

Publications
A survey of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across 23 countries in 2022

Our third study of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among 23,000 respondents in 23 countries, surveyed from 29 June to 10 July 2022 found willingness to accept vaccination at 79.1%, up 5.2% from June 2021.

Data Visualisations
The State of Vaccine Confidence in the EU, 2020

Our 2020 study investigated public perceptions towards the importance, safety, and effectiveness of vaccines as well as the perceptions towards the safety…

Summary

Date:

September 2021

Countries:
  • Brazil
  • USA
  • France
  • South Korea
  • Poland
  • Canada
  • Germany
  • Lebanon
  • Serbia
  • Chile
  • Hong Kong
  • Malaysia
  • Slovenia
  • China
  • India
  • Mexico
  • Spain
  • Croatia
  • Indonesia
  • Nigeria
  • UK
  • Denmark
  • Ireland
  • Pakistan
  • Vietnam
  • Ecuador
  • Italy
  • Paraguay
  • Argentina
  • Finland
  • Japan
  • Peru
Topics:
  • Quantitative Research
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Social, Structural and Emotional Determinants of Health
  • COVID-19
  • Drivers of and Barriers to Vaccination
  • Region - South America
  • Region - North America
  • Region - Europe
  • Region - Asia
  • Region - Africa
Authors:
  • de Figueiredo, A
  • Larson, HJ
Journal:
  • Communications Medicine

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Reports
Written Evidence to the House of Lords Childhood Vaccinations Committee

This submission, from a leading international team of misinformation and public health researchers, sets out the evidence linking misinformation to declining childhood vaccine confidence in the UK.

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Podcasts
Listening to Learn with Heidi J. Larson, PhD

How do we build trust in an era of misinformation, social media, and artificial intelligence? In this episode of Infectious IDeas, NFID CEO Rebecca Alvania, PhD, MA, MPH, and NFID Medical Director Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., MD, talk with Heidi J. Larson, PhD, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project.

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Media and commentary
The surprising truth about trust in science

“There has definitely been a growing number of people who question widely accepted scientific evidence,” says VCP Director Heidi Larson. “We’ve always had dissenters, but it’s been very much more on the fringe,” she says.

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