Heidi Larson
| Heidi Larson link (Anthropologist,propagandist) | |
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| File:Heidi Larson.jpg | |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Harvard University,University of California (Berkeley) |
| Spouse | Peter Piot |
Anthropologist who hit it big by hitching on to the vaccine bandwagon. Founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project. | |
Dr Heidi J. Larson is an American anthropologist and the founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project.[1] As well as lucrative shilling for Big Pharma like GAVI, WHO and UNICEF[2], in February 2021 she published a paper admitting extensive collaboration and funding from, vaccine manufacturers, especially the pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co. Inc.[3]
She co-chaired (alongside J. Stephen Morrison) the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation in 2020, a plan for extensive medical censorship in order to achieve their goals. Her husband, Peter Piot, was the first executive director of UNAIDS and a co-discoverer of Ebola.
Education and early career
The daughter of a priest and civil rights advocate, Larson grew up in Massachusetts.[4]
She worked for Save the Children in the West Bank and in Nepal after college. Working abroad got her interested in anthropology and she eventually graduated from the University of California in that discipline. She earned a Ph.D. in 1990. She worked for several companies in the 1990s, including Apple and Xerox. She went to UNICEF to study the impact of fax machines on how employees accomplish their work.[5]
Work in vaccine confidence
Larson went back to UNICEF in 2000, working on global communications for several of the agency's vaccination programs. She developed an expertise on working with local health workers to defuse rumors that threatened to derail vaccination initiatives. She founded the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, which she still runs as of 2020, in addition to teaching anthropology, Risk and Decision Science.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Since 2015, Larson has been leading a European Union project to support vaccination efforts in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, identifying and countering rumours that may reduce the effectiveness of the campaign.
Larson is Director of European Initiatives at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.[11]
Publications
- COVID-19 in Europe: new challenges for addressing vaccine hesitancy[12]
- 2021 - an Exploratory study of the global intent to accept COVID-19 vaccinations[13]
References
- ↑ http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/about/#team%7Ctitle=About : The Vaccine Confidence Project
- ↑ https://www.wlghconference.org/speakerheidilarson
- ↑ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01056-1
- ↑ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31612-3/fulltext}
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20201019163949/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/health/coronavirus-vaccine-hesitancy-larson.html?action=click&module=Top%2520Stories&pgtype=Homepage
- ↑ https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/larson.heidi
- ↑ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/vaccines-calling-shots.html
- ↑ https://www.jnj.com/health-and-wellness/the-director-of-the-vaccine-confidence-project-separates-vaccination-fact-from-fiction-unseen-enemy
- ↑ https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/rise-vaccine-hesitancy-related-pursuit-purity-prof-heidi-larson_en.html
- ↑ https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2016-09/vaccine-confidence-varies-widely-qa-heidi-larson
- ↑ https://depts.washington.edu/healthms/people/heidi-larson/
- ↑ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00150-7/fulltext
- ↑ https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-021-00027-x
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