Context matters: How to research vaccine attitudes and uptake after the COVID-19 crisis

Jeremy K. Ward, Patrick Peretti-Watel, Eve Dubé, Pierre Verger, Katie Attwell

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Abstract

The pandemic dramatically accelerated research on vaccine attitudes and uptake, a field which mobilizes researchers from the social sciences and humanities as well as biomedical and public health disciplines. The field has the potential to contribute much more, but the growth in research and the deeper connections between disciplines brings challenges as well as opportunities. This perspective article assesses the recent development of the field, exploring progress whilst emphasizing that not enough attention has been paid to national and local contexts. This lack of contextual attention limits the progress of research and hinders our capacity to learn from the COVID-19 crisis. We suggest three concrete responses: building and recognizing new publishing formats for reporting and synthesizing studies at a country level; establishing country-level interdisciplinary networks to connect research and praxis; and strengthening international comparative survey work by enhancing the focus on local contextual factors.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2367268
Number of pages7
JournalHuman Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics
Volume20
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jun 2024

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