A SSHAP brief on COVID-19 vaccines and (dis)trust among youth in Ealing, London by Megan Schmidt-Sane, Tabitha Hrynick, Jillian Schulte, Charlie Forgacz-Cooper and Santiago Ripoll has won the 2022 ARHE Policy Brief Award.
Boosting vaccine confidence requires far more than simply providing information.
Social science can inform the ethics, design, recruitment and community engagement, implementation and results dissemination.
Rapid review question: What are the health-seeking and nutritional practices of the affected populations? How do they frame, understand and engage in prevention of cholera/AWD, malaria, measles/rubella (or vaccine preventable diseases); infant and child feeding and other relevant diseases? What do these entail in terms of behaviour change communication and community engagement? This review is based on a review of literature and consultation with experts that was undertaken in April-May 2019.
You can also download an executive summary here.
It is important to take this information with caution, as much of the literature was produced before the current crisis, in which social organisation may have undergone significant change due to the impact of the cyclone. Rapid ethnographic assessments and other social science surveys in the field should run in parallel to the response.
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The availability of an experimental vaccine is seen as a game changer in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But some residents in the North Kivu province capital city of Goma, in particular women over 35 years old, aren’t so sure.