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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….

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Garrison A, Karlsson L, Fressard L, Fasce A, Rodrigues F, Schmid P, Taubert F, Holford D, Lewandowsky S, Nynäs P, Anderson EC, Gagneur A, Dubé E, Soveri A, Verger P, International adaptation and validation of the Pro-VC-Be: measuring the psychosocial determinants of vaccine confidence in healthcare professionals in European countries, Expert revies of vaccines, 22(1):726-737, 2023….

J.K. Ward, F Gauna, M Deml, N MacKendrick, P Peretti-Watel, Endorsement of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and vaccine attitudes: A representative cross-sectional study in France, Social Science & Medicine, Vol 7, N°1, 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37245262/ How much does endorsement of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) correlate with negative attitudes towards vaccines? One of the difficulties…