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Dr. Heidi Larson - Anthropologist and founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project

Dr. Heidi Larson - Anthropologist and founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project

This episode's guest is Professor Heidi J. Larson, the Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project.  She is a professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, Seattle; and at the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on managing risk and building trust in vaccines, vaccine trials and building cooperation in the context of disease outbreaks and pandemics.