"A lot of our healthcare providers are really de-skilled now in being able to answer the complex questions families are asking about vaccine safety...contributing to this loss of trust."

Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Prof Margie Danchin featured on SiriusXM's Doctor Radio program to discuss an uptick in vaccine hesitancy globally, with one in 10 families not currently trusting vaccine information from their healthcare providers.

Professor Danchin suggested additional training for nurses, doctors and vaccine providers, so concerns or questions from families can be addressed, improving vaccine uptake and restoring trust.

Listen 👉 https://lnkd.in/gQCKCMK3

#MCRI #MedicalResearch #Vaccination #Trust

🔴 Measles cases are rising across Europe.
This has resulted in several EU countries losing their measles-free status or having measles classified as endemic.

Measles is highly contagious and can lead to serious, even life-threatening complications.
The good news? It is preventable.
 
We are working closely with European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and national authorities to support the response to ongoing outbreaks — by strengthening vaccination coverage, promoting sustainable immunisation programmes and securing vaccine supply across Europe.

✅ Two doses of the measles vaccine provide the best protection
👶 Childhood vaccination remains the most effective way to stop transmission
💉 Vaccination protects individuals — and communities
 
We know mixed messages on the benefits of vaccination are circulating; however, all the scientific evidence underpins their safety and efficacy. Your doctor or another health professional can provide you with all the facts.
 
Get vaccinated. Get protected.
👉 Learn more here:
https://lnkd.in/dY-5VyyH
#UnitedInProtection

With vaccine hesitancy continuing to erode vaccine confidence globally and put children and families at risk, it was a privilege to meet with midwives, district health officials and parents who are not vaccinating in Indonesia 🇮🇩 to co-design a program to train midwives and nurses to answer questions on vaccine safety and misinformation, starting in pregnancy. We are also focusing on engaging fathers who often make the final decision to vaccinate & are using nudges and reminders to tackle access issues 😀

The pilot will run in Riau, in posyandus in Pekanbaru and Siak to leverage a hybrid trial for evidence on effectiveness, with implementation & cost outcomes to drive practice and policy change to improve immunisation coverage and trust in vaccines 💡

With misinformation swirling globally, recently driven by conflicting advice on schedules and incorrect unscientific advice from the US, we need novel and effective strategies to move the needle on vaccine uptake & trust urgently

Watch this space 👇

With thanks to DFAT Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) and the Australian Regional Immunisation Alluance and my brilliant team from Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) especially Jessica Kaufman, PhD Belle Overmars and our friends & collegues from Universitas Gadjah Mada & the wonderful nurses and midwives

Did you know? Tetanus is not contagious and cannot spread from person to person. Parents, do your research on the risks of tetanus vs. the risks of the tetanus vaccine. Start here: picdata.org/tetanus-dis

#vaccines #parenting

🧑‍🔬 This new qualitative study shows that public trust in government actions during #COVID-19 was deeply influenced by emotions like uncertainty, stress, and worry, affecting people’s willingness to follow #health measures. The findings highlight the need to integrate emotional and psychological insights into public health planning for future crises.

#PublicHealth #BehavioralScience #PandemicResponse #TrustInScience #HealthPolicy

📊https://lnkd.in/e3-tnmzp 

💬 “We all work together to vaccinate the child”

A community-engagement program in north-west Ethiopia helped caregivers and health workers build trust, communication, and accountability around childhood vaccination, reinforcing the power of collaboration for healthier communities.

#CommunityHealth #Family #Vaccination #HealthEquity #CollaborativeCare

🔗 https://lnkd.in/dZxDJq5M

We are delighted to announce that the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐕𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 will be held at UWA Crawley campus on 10 February.
This free event is hosted by UWA’s VaxPol Lab in partnership with the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases and is supported by UWA School of Social Sciences.

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: Tuesday 10 February 2026, 9am - 4:30pm
𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Conference Room 373 (Social Sciences and Law Link - Floor 3), UWA Crawley campus
𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠.𝐜𝐨𝐦/𝐃𝐇𝐍𝐅𝐏 (limited spots left)

The symposium will feature a dedicated focus on the MandEval Project, exploring the Effectiveness and Consequences of Australia’s COVID‑19 Vaccine Mandates. The program will include presentations, panel discussion, and opportunities for networking over morning tea, lunch, and optional post‑event drinks.

Did you know that severe adverse events, such as transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, thrombocytopenia, and sudden infant death syndrome, have been reported following Hib vaccination? However, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) states that “the evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation between Hib vaccines” and those conditions.

Parents, stay informed about the risks of Hib compared to the risks of the Hib vaccine.

For more insights and research, visit picdata.org/hib

#vaccines #protecyourkids | 10 comments on LinkedIn

On Tuesday, February 10, the Dissemination & Implementation Science Innovation Research Network (DISIRN) at the School of Public Health will host a symposium titled, "Implementation Science & the Public Health Information Ecosystem," at the Clark-Fox Forum in Hillman Hall and online. 

Keynote speakers:  
Jess Steier, founder and CEO of Unbiased Science, and host of the podcast of the same name.  

Heidi B. Miller, MD, chief medical officer of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services 

Panel discussions will explore communication strategies, health system design and the challenges posed by public health misinformation. 

Registration is required. To register, see the link below.

https://lnkd.in/gw9eR-gT

Depuis quelques heures, un individu de sinistre mémoire pour toutes celles et tous ceux qui luttent contre la désinformation scientifique et qui s'est tristement rappelé à nos bons souvenirs en portant plainte auprès des instances ordinales contre notre ami Mathias Wargon parce que celui-ci a eu l'outrecuidance de rappeler à toutes la responsabilité communautaire de la vaccination, se vante d'avoir été "choisi" par la Haute Autorité de Santé pour "contribuer" au groupe de travail sur l'évaluation sur la pertinence d'instaurer une obligation vaccinale contre la grippe pour certaines catégories socioprofessionnelles et les populations âgées de 65 ans et plus résidant en collectivité".

Mais qui est Franck Zeiger ?
Celui-ci s'est rendu célèbre dès le début de la crise du #Covid en apportant un soutien aveugle et inconditionnel au Druide des Calanques reconverti depuis dans le commerce des crèmes qui rendent le cheveu plus gras. Zeiger est devenu un fervent défenseur de l'hydroxychloroquine, balayant d'un geste les multiples études prouvant son inefficacité dans le traitement et la prévention du Covid-19 tout comme il semble soudainement atteint d'une amnésie focale concernant les effets secondaires graves liés à sa combinaison à l'azithromycine...
Qu'à cela ne tienne, faisant feu de tout bois, Franck Zeiger s'est très vite converti à l'ivermectine, n'hésitant pas à relayer les informations mensongères concernant ses prétendues propriétés anticancéreuses.

Franck Zeiger s'est aussi révélé être un soutien des personnels hospitaliers réfractaires à la vaccination contre le #Covid, allant même jusqu'à inciter le plus grand nombre à la résistance contre la dictature de la piquouze...
Négationniste scientifique farouche, Zeiger s'est levé comme un seul homme, mais avec Hélène Banoun aka Tatie Neuneu contre les recommandations de vaccination aux femmes enceintes, que ce soit contre la grippe, le Covid-19, la coqueluche ou la bronchiolite paske c'est pas bien les vaccins.

Eh oui, comme on peut s'en douter, en grand admirateur de Robert le Neuneu des Kennedy, Franck Zeiger qui est médecin, je le rappelle, n'a pas seulement horreur des petites fioles avec de l'ARNm dedans, mais de tous les vaccins qui, selon les théories MAGA les plus stupides qu'il adopte sans sourciller, tuent plus qu'ils ne soignent.

Fort heureusement la plainte délirante de cet énième médecin complotiste a été rejetée par le CDOM93 mais on commence sincèrement à se poser la question de l'utilité du Conseil national de l'Ordre des médecins face à la dérive d'un nombre non négligeable de médecins qui continuent à pratiquer et à distiller leurs mensonges délétères en toute impunité.

Et avouez qu'il est assez cocasse d'apprendre que Frank Zeiger se voit ouvrir grandes les portes de la Haute Autorité de Santé alors que notre chère ministre Stephanie RIST fait au même moment la promotion de sa "stratégie nationale de lutte contre la désinformation". Quelle déconneuse cette Stéphanie !

Listen to the experts!

Since Elisabeth Wilhelm and I drafted the first version of our chapter on health disinformation for the new European Digital Media Observatory volume, its relevance has only grown.

Health disinformation gets propagated for profit or for social and political influence. The motivations vary, but the tactics tend to exploit the same vulnerabilities in the information environment and in the ways people make sense of risk and uncertainty.

Public health works toward long-term population wellbeing, so it approaches harmful information as a structural challenge that affects trust, equity, and the ability of communities to stay safe. Addressing health disinformation therefore cannot rely on rapid debunking alone. Public health needs to work on durable resilience that includes social and behavior change approaches, strong health communication systems, and support for the many people who form and maintain community trust.

This also matters for climate and One Health challenges. The same conditions that allow health disinformation to spread also shape how people understand climate impacts, zoonotic threats, and environmental change.

Disinformation narratives cut across these domains, which means the solutions must as well. Interdisciplinary work that links public health, SBC, climate communication, and information integrity is essential.

We wrote the chapter as a short public health primer for disinformation researchers and closed with reflections for colleagues who sit at the intersection of health communication and information disorder.

Lis and I explored several of the chapter’s themes during our EDMO training workshop:
https://lnkd.in/dAbJdn5a

Thanks to Paula Gori and Lisa Ginsburg for inviting us to contribute to this book: Disinformation: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis

🔷 L'équipe VLS se félicite d'avoir été invitée à participer à la constitution du rapport sur la désinformation en santé confié à Mathieu Molimard, Dominique Costagliola et Hervé Maisonneuve remis hier à la Ministre Stéphanie Rist.

🔹Pour faire face à l'intensification de la désinformation en santé qui menace la santé individuelle et la cohésion sociale, ce rapport propose une stratégie nationale axée autour de 6 piliers :

✅ Éducation
✅ Formation
✅ Information
✅ Détection
✅ Sanctions
✅ Recherche

🔹Concernant la vaccination, les vagues de fausses nouvelles qui ont émergé durant la pandémie Covid-19, ont créé une défiance sans précédent envers les institutions scientifiques et les autorités. Cette désinformation affecte la prévention et tue parfois en détournant les plus vulnérables des soins ou de la vaccination.

🔹La désinformation en santé a des conséquences graves : elle met des vies en danger et nuit à la santé publique en alimentant les refus vaccinaux, ce qui favorise la résurgence de maladies évitables et l'aggravation de pathologies.

🔹Les campagnes de désinformation sont souvent prévisibles, car elles sont liées aux cycles de santé publique, comme les campagnes vaccinales. Il est donc possible de les anticiper pour mieux les contrer via des actions d'information et de communication appropriées.

🔹Lorsqu'un citoyen cherche des informations sur les vaccins sur des plateformes d'achat ou dans certains magasins, il est fréquemment exposé à des messages alarmistes et mensongers, évoquant un « génocide planétaire ». Les personnes peu informées peinent à trouver des sources fiables sur les bénéfices et risques des vaccins.

🔹Dans la plupart des cas, il s’agit un petit nombre de personnes qui savent exploiter les moyens de communication, la faible littératie du public.

Il en va de la responsabilité de tous les acteurs.

Dr. Kirk Milhoan joins IMA Senior Advisor Dr. Robert Malone as a respected voice shaping vaccine policy.

For the last 6 months, my team and I have spent countless hours analyzing data to answer the question: Are pediatricians getting rich by "pushing vaccines"? (Little did we know this would become even more relevant in light of recent events!)

We pored over the data. We did not realize the extent of the complexity when we started. The reimbursement landscape is a tangled mess of federal programs, state variations, insurance negotiations, and quality metrics that took us months to untangle.

We interviewed pediatricians. Some of them cried talking about the reality of running a practice while trying to keep vaccines available for their patients. One told us about the impossible math of serving kids on Medicaid when the reimbursement doesn't even cover the cost of keeping the lights on.

We dug into the viral claims about bonuses and kickbacks. We traced them back to their sources. What we found was... not what the internet thinks.
(Spoiler: pharmaceutical companies DO NOT pay pediatricians. It's actually illegal.)

Shoutout to my incredible team who worked into the wee hours for weeks and months to bring this to life. I am so proud of what we built.

Please read this and share it widely. I am so tired of people vilifying the Mr. Rogers of medicine. Pediatricians are one of the last bastions of trust in healthcare, and that trust is being eroded by baseless claims.

The data tell a very clear story if you actually look.

https://lnkd.in/eqbA3DJr

cc:
Elana Pearl Ben-Joseph, MD, MPH David Higgins, MD, MPH Jen Covich Bordenick Vrnda Aiyaswamy Izzy Brandstetter Figueroa, MPH Veda Bojar | 10 comments on LinkedIn

And now the CDC is lying to you under RFK Jr. This should surprise no one, but perhaps Bill Cassidy can and will need to address this.

Do pediatricians make large profits from vaccines? Only last week Texas Attorney General announced a formal investigation into “unlawful financial incentives” for childhood vaccines, claiming “Big Pharma and Big Insurance bribe medical providers to pressure parents.” Eerie timing indeed, as the team at Unbiased Science had just finishing polishing a six-month investigation into that exact question. (spolier alert: no, they don't).

Shout out to the authors of this timely and detailed research paper Jen Covich Bordenick Elana Pearl Ben-Joseph, MD, MPH Jess Steier and David Higgins, MD, MPH. You can get the report right now https://lnkd.in/eYEAWGqi #VaccineEconomics #HealthCommunications #ScienceCommunications #Paediatricians #Vaccines

"Once a leading cause of paralysis in children, poliomyelitis—commonly known as polio—is now largely absent from daily life in the U.S. This is a public health success that can be traced directly to vaccination. Polio is a contagious viral disease caused by poliovirus, which can infect cells in the central nervous system, potentially causing paralysis. This was the case for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, who contracted polio in 1921 at the age of 39.

In the early 1900s, polio paralyzed and killed thousands of people—it was one of the most feared diseases in the U.S. But the polio vaccine helped eliminate wild polio in the country. While polio has been eliminated in the U.S., the country remains at risk because the illness has not been globally eradicated. That is why it is important to understand what polio is, how the virus spreads and why polio vaccination remains essential to protecting individuals and public health."

When we talk about public trust in science, who are we actually talking about? 🧬🔬🧪🌾🚀🌏

Recent CSIRO research into Australian public perceptions suggests it’s not a single audience, but a spectrum. Broadly, people tend to fall into four groups: Champions, Supporters, Moderates and Sceptics of science and innovation. Each group brings different expectations, levels of confidence and ways of engaging with scientific knowledge.

What’s striking in this research is that broader societal and scientific mistrust - and that includes of institutions, experts and decision‑makers - is beginning to shape perceptions of science across all four groups. The effects are most pronounced among those typically seen as disengaged or sceptical, but even traditional advocates of science are not immune. Trust can no longer be assumed.

This matters because trust isn’t just about whether people believe the science. It shapes whether science informs decisions, guides behaviour, and delivers benefit. In a world facing complex challenges - from emerging technologies to public health and climate adaptation - science that is trusted, understood and aligned with public values has the power to change the society we live in.

Thank you Dr. Sarah Vivienne Bentley, Emma Schleiger, PhD, Rod McCrea, Rebecca Coates and Elizabeth Hobman for this work.

#responsibleinnovation