Topic: AI

Professor Heidi Larson, VCP Founder and Director, discusses new Lancet Commission that will look to tackle wider issues and drivers around health misinformation and disinformation.

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.

It is time to systematically address misinformation and disinformation in a health context. A new VCP-led Lancet
Commission on rethinking misinformation, health, and human security will be convene transdisciplinary experts from to rethink a systems approach to these threats.

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.

This study assesses the effectiveness of a vaccine chatbot in improving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among female middle school students aged 12–15 years across diverse socioeconomic settings in China, where HPV vaccination is primarily paid out-of-pocket.

We conducted a social listening analysis to assess attitudes towards Health AI.