Topic: Quantitative Research

“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.

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted renewed emphasis on monitoring vaccine confidence. This study extends vaccine confidence surveillance to geographies where such research is limited. 

This series of studies highlights the importance of adopting constructive approaches to restoring public health confidence in vaccination, particularly mRNA vaccines.

Vaccine confidence remains a global public health challenge, especially highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to expand the scope of HCPs’ vaccine confidence oversight into European regions where limited research has been conducted thus far.

Strengthen national training curricula and integrate targeted, culturally grounded interpersonal communication practices into training curricula for health workers in ECARO countries.

This study aimed to investigate the uptake status and reasons of childhood influenza vaccination during the pandemic in China.

We conducted a survey experiment randomising exposure to messages about mpox among a sample of the South Korean public (n = 1500) in July 2022.

An examination of trends in vaccine confidence across eight sub-Saharan countries between 2020 and 2022.

Mixed method study to examine adult and HCP confidence in vaccination in Eastern Europe (Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia).

Mixed method study to explore risk perceptions and emotional determinants of health around COVID-19 and influenza vaccination in Europe.

The latest WHO/UNICEF estimates of national childhood immunisation coverage have revealed the largest declines in routine immunisation uptake globally in three decades. Through a large-scale retrospective modelling study, we investigate the extent to which vaccine confidence has changed globally using pre- and post-pandemic.

The State of the World’s Children 2023 was developed in collaboration with VCP and using Vaccine Confidence Index data. It reveals that public perception of the importance of vaccines for children declined during the COVID-19 pandemic in 52 out of 55 countries studied.