Abstract In 2019 the World Health Organization named vaccine hesitancy a top-10 threat to
global health (World Health Organization, 2019). To understand the historical roots of this …

Communication about vaccination has become a public battleground. The global adoption
of social media has increased the visibility and influence of groups that were previously …

Vaccination programs are central to saving lives and preventing illness, but the proliferation
of misinformation on social media has produced direct, negative consequences toward …

Outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases have continued to affect many parts of the
United States. Measles particularly made a striking comeback in 2019, resulting in the …

A hundred years ago this month, the death rate from the 1918 influenza was at its peak. An
estimated 500 million people were infected over the course of the pandemic; between 50 …

This chapter discusses the Alaska Public Health Information Response Team, a
communityengaged public health intervention designed to monitor and rapidly respond …

By early 2019, social media platforms had started to make some tentative changes to their
content moderation policies around vaccine-related health misinformation in response to the …

Public health experts have studied global pandemics long before the COVID-19 outbreak of
2020. Since the worldwide spread of HIV, SARS, H1N1, and Ebola among others, scholars …

Vaccine hesitancy–delaying or refusing to receive recommended vaccination because of
reservations or doubts about vaccines, their safety and effectiveness–is a major global …

YES Vaccines have had arguably the greatest positive impact of any technology ever
invented by humans. Immunisation programmes have eradicated or radically reduced the …