Happy April! I hope you are excited as we are because a new month = a new #TalkPublicHealth episode!

For this episode, our team felt an eerie sense of “de ja vu” as we observe the global health response to COVID-19.

Moreover, it felt eerie because…we saw a lot of this coming from early 2019 [P.S. which is when we recorded this episode’s audio].

So while listening to this conversation, please take these important contexts into account:

1. Our conversation occurred in the context of the year 2019;

2. We didn’t have the "magnificent" audio equipment & resources like what we have today; AND

3. We were still public health students - trying to figure out how could put our studies into practice.That being said, we believe our conversation still holds true (otherwise we wouldn’t be sharing it with you!)

This episode is for you if you want to: 1) learn more about vaccine hesitancy; 2) recognize why the term anti-vax is an issue; 3) learn more about why we need to close the gap between vaccine-hesitant populations AND; 4) build better trust & care in marginalized and other vulnerable communities.

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We also want to share sources of data for this episode especially as we approach World Immunization Week.

a) Vaccination Week In The Americas: https://www.paho.org/vwa/

b) World Immunization Week, 24-30 April 2021: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-immunization-week/2021

c) What is Vaccine Hesitancy? (Report from WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization)

https://www.who.int/immunization/sage/meetings/2014/october/SAGE_working_group_revised_report_vaccine_hesitancy.pdf?ua=1

d) WHO-Europe Best practice guidance // How to respond to vocal vaccine deniers in public:

http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/315761/Best-practice-guidance-respond-vocal-vaccine-deniers-public.pdf

How do we begin to address & conduct positive outreach to marginalized groups about vaccine hesitancy?

e) Medical Distrust: The Real Reason for PrEP Misgivings in the Black Community - Medical Distrust: https://www.avac.org/blog/medical-distrust-real-reason-prep-misgivings-black-community

f) Vaccine confidence plummets in the Philippines following dengue vaccine scare: why it matters to pandemic preparedness:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1080/21645515.2018.1522468?scroll=top

g) Controversial Ebola vaccine trials in Ghana: a thematic analysis of critiques and rebuttals in digital news: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-017-4618-8 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4618-8

h) Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.

https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

i) Vaccine Confidence - A project aimed at achieving better vaccine literacy among the general public.

https://www.vaccineconfidence.org/

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