During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media content analysis allowed for tracking attitudes
toward newly introduced vaccines. However, current evidence is limited to single social …

Background Despite the advent of vaccines against COVID‐19, there is considerable
variation in the acceptance and hesitancy towards the vaccination program across different …

University students are a critical group for vaccination programmes against COVID-19,
meningococcal disease (MenACWY) and measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). We aimed to …

COVID-19 vaccination rates remain lower among adolescents compared with adults. Youth
participatory action research (YPAR) offers opportunities to inform youth vaccine …

Providing accurate and timely public health information is an ongoing challenge for public
health officials. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated such challenges and presented …

This paper is part of a special issue on Behavioural Epidemiology. Aim: We use the Remote
Assessment of Disease and Relapses platform (RADAR) to collect Bluetooth contact and …

Suraj Arshanapally (MPH, Yale School of Public Health) is a Health Communication
Specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is also the Managing Editor …

Public distrust in official sources of health information and uncertainty about novel
guidelines may discourage engagement in recommended disease prevention practices …

In the post truth era the limits between facts and beliefs, science and pseudo-science seem
to be quite blurred. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, provide the ideal vehicle for …

Popular culture can be a resource for theorizing and advocacy about health. In this chapter, I
consider the ways that popular culture both represents health information and acts as a …