In episode 11 of our COVID19 Road to a vaccine series, our host, Nigel Crawford, speaks to
experts in vaccine confidence, Associate Professor Margie Danchin and Professor Julie Leask. Margie is a consultant paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, an Associate Professor within the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, where she is the leader of the Vaccine Uptake Group. Julie is a social scientist and professor in the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sydney and a visiting Professorial Fellow at NCIRS (the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance). In this episode they discuss:

•Responses to vaccine hesitancy and promoting vaccine confidence from an Australian perspective
•The importance of language and definitions when it comes to vaccine confidence, hesitancy and uptake
•(5) important ways to prepare the public for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
•The role of social media platforms in communicating this information
•The importance of measuring vaccine confidence in the community
•Ways of communicating well around adverse events in gaining community trust and maintaining vaccine programs, including utilising expertise from specialist immunisation clinics (SICs)

Links:

Vaccine: Words matter: Vaccine hesitancy, vaccine demand, vaccine confidence, herd immunity and mandatory vaccination
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X19315981?via%3Dihub

COSSI Network
http://www.ncirs.org.au/COSSI

Sharing Knowledge About Immunisation
http://ncirs.org.au/our-work/sharing-knowledge-about-immunisation