Publication : Social Stigma and COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal in France

Patrick Peretti-Watel, Lisa Fressard, Benoît Giry, Pierre Verger, Jeremy Keith Ward; Social Stigma and COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal in France. J Health Polit Policy Law 2024; 11186095. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-11186095 Context: In 2021, French health authorities strongly promoted the vaccination against Covid-19. We assumed that refusing this vaccine became a ‘stigma’, and we investigated potential ‘public stigma’ toward unvaccinated people among the French population….

Publication : What does the French public consider to be a conflict of interest for medical researchers?

Schultz É, Mancini J, Ward JK. What does the French public consider to be a conflict of interest for medical researchers? Soc Sci Med. 2023 Jun;327:115851. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115851. Conflicts of interests have been at the core of public debate over health and medicine for decades. Social scientists have analysed the diversity of definitions of this…

Publication : From intentions to practices: what drove people to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Findings from the French longitudinal socioepidemiological cohort survey

Spire A, Sireyjol A, Bajos N; EpiCoV study group; EpiCov study group. From intentions to practices: what drove people to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Findings from the French longitudinal socioepidemiological cohort survey. BMJ Open. 2023 Dec 22;13(12):e073465. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073465. Objective: In many countries, before COVID-19 vaccines became available, reluctance to get vaccinated was particularly prevalent among…

Publication : Il y a des alternatives. Une autre histoire des médicaments (XIXe-XXIe siècle)

Cassier M., Il y a des alternatives: Une autre histoire des médicaments (XIXe-XXIe siècle), Seuil, Paris, 384 p, 2023. À partir de 2020, des entreprises pharmaceutiques ont rendu opérationnelles, en un temps record, de nouvelles technologies vaccinales qui ont contribué à surmonter la crise du Covid-19. Toutefois, ces multinationales, qui avaient breveté leurs vaccins, les…

Publication : Politisation et rapports ordinaires aux vaccins. Premiers enseignements de l’épidémie de Covid-19

Ward, Jeremy K. « Politisation et rapports ordinaires aux vaccins. Premiers enseignements de l’épidémie de Covid-19 », L’Année sociologique, vol. 73, no. 2, 2023, pp. 267-294. https://doi.org/10.3917/anso.232.0267 L’influence des identités et croyances politiques sur les attitudes à l’égard d’une grande diversité d’aspects de l’épidémie de Covid-19 a été soulignée dès les débuts de cette crise. Dans cet article,…

Conference : Panel : Beyond polarisation : approaches to vaccination; European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Amsterdam

Convenors: Lesley Branagan (Hamburg University), Anna Dowrick (University of Oxford), Rebecca Cassidy (University of Kent), Simon Bailey (University of Kent). https://www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/#14363 The Covid pandemic brought significant transformations in the technologies, roles, governance, discourses and meanings of vaccines. The technological and political promise of Covid vaccines has left limited space for exploration of their unintended consequences….

Conference : Vax-Trust project final conference. Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Europe. 6–7 February 2024 in Tampere, Finland and online

https://vax-trust.eu/final-conference/ Vaccine hesitancy is not a novel phenomenon as it has existed since the invention of vaccines; however, it has notably increased in recent years and its role has further been accentuated by the Covid pandemic. To we are organising an international conference on 6–7 February 2024 in Tampere, Finland and online. The conference, including expert…

Publication: Vaccination acceptability in the French general population and related determinants, 2000-2021

Vaux S, Gautier A, Nassany O, Bonmarin I. Vaccination acceptability in the French general population and related determinants, 2000-2021. Vaccine. 2023 Oct 6;41(42):6281-6290. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.08.062. Background: This study describes the evolution of vaccination acceptability and associated determinants in the French general population between 2000 and 2021, and vaccinations with the highest vaccine hesitancy between 2010…

Publication: Healthcare professionals’ attitudes to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination: Cross-sectional survey data from four European countries

Linda C. Karlsson, Amanda Garrison , Dawn Holford , Angelo Fasce , Stephan Lewandowsky, Frederike Taubert, Philipp Schmid, Cornelia Betsch, Fernanda Rodrigues, Lisa Fressard, Pierre Verger, and Anna Soveri, Healthcare professionals’ attitudes to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination: Cross-sectional survey data from four European countries, Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, Aug;19(2):2256442, 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37724556/ Mandatory vaccinations are widely debated…

Publication: Endorsement of alternative medicine and vaccine hesitancy among physicians: A cross-sectional study in four European countries

Fasce A, Karlsson L, Verger P, Mäki O, Taubert F, Garrison A, Schmid P, Holford DL, Lewandowsky S, Rodrigues F, Betsch C, Soveri A., Endorsement of alternative medicine and vaccine hesitancy among physicians: A cross-sectional study in four European countries, Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics,19(2): 2242748, 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37581343/ Vaccine hesitancy has become a threat to public health,…