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'''Heidi J. Larson''' is the founding director of the [[Vaccine Confidence Project]].
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'''Heidi J. Larson''' is an American [[anthropologist]] and the founding director of the [[Vaccine Confidence Project]].<ref>http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/about/#team|title=About : The Vaccine Confidence Project</ref>
  
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In a paper published in February 2021, Larson acknowledged extensive collaboration with, advisory board membership of, and funding from, vaccine manufacturers, especially the pharmaceutical companies [[GlaxoSmithKline]] and [[Merck & Co. Inc.]]<ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01056-1</ref>
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Apart from having lucrative leadership jobs in organizations shilling for [[Big Pharma]] like [[GAVI]], [[WHO]] and [[UNICEF]]<ref>https://www.wlghconference.org/speakerheidilarson</ref>, she in a paper published in February 2021, Larson also acknowledged extensive collaboration with, advisory board membership of, and funding from, vaccine manufacturers, especially the pharmaceutical companies [[GlaxoSmithKline]] and [[Merck & Co. Inc.]]<ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01056-1</ref>
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Ahe co-chaired (alongside [[J. Stephen Morrison]]) the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies|CSIS]]-LSHTM [[Call to Action: CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation|High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation]] in 2020, a plan for extensive medical censorship in order to achieve their goals.
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== Education and early career ==
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The daughter of a priest and civil rights advocate, Larson grew up in [[Massachusetts]].<ref>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31612-3/fulltext}</ref>
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Larson 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, Berkeley|University of California]] in that discipline. She earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1990. She worked for several companies in the 1990s, including [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] and [[Xerox]]. She went to [[UNICEF]] to study the impact of [[Fax|fax machines]] on how employees accomplish their work.<ref name=NYT>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</ref>
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==Work in vaccine confidence==
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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.<ref name=NYT/><ref>https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/larson.heidi</ref><ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/vaccines-calling-shots.html</ref><ref>https://www.jnj.com/health-and-wellness/the-director-of-the-vaccine-confidence-project-separates-vaccination-fact-from-fiction-unseen-enemy</ref><ref>https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/rise-vaccine-hesitancy-related-pursuit-purity-prof-heidi-larson_en.html</ref><ref name="Global Health NOW 2016">https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2016-09/vaccine-confidence-varies-widely-qa-heidi-larson</ref>
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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.
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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]].<ref>https://depts.washington.edu/healthms/people/heidi-larson/</ref>  
  
 
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Revision as of 01:53, 10 August 2022

Person.png Heidi Larson  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(anthropologist, propagandist)
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NationalityUS
Alma materHarvard University, University of California (Berkeley)
SpousePeter Piot
Founder ofVaccine Confidence Project
Member ofBBC/100 Women/2021, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security/Working Group on Readying Populations for COVID-19 Vaccines
Anthropologist who hit it big by hitching on to the vaccine bandwagon. Founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project.

Heidi J. Larson is an American anthropologist and the founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project.[1]

Apart from having lucrative leadership jobs in organizations shilling for Big Pharma like GAVI, WHO and UNICEF[2], she in a paper published in February 2021, Larson also acknowledged extensive collaboration with, advisory board membership of, and funding from, vaccine manufacturers, especially the pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co. Inc.[3]

Ahe 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.

Education and early career

The daughter of a priest and civil rights advocate, Larson grew up in Massachusetts.[4]

Larson 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]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Call to Action: CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation19 October 202019 October 2020Strategic public-private master plan for medical censorship and vaccine persuasion.
StratCom DC 201923 October 201924 October 2019Washington DCSpooky conference arranged by the powerful Atlantic Council to discuss how to expand censorship
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World Economic Forum
Switzerland		This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/202222 May 202226 May 2022World Economic Forum
Switzerland		1912 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/202316 January 202320 January 2023World Economic Forum
Switzerland		The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"
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References

  1. ↑ http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/about/#team%7Ctitle=About : The Vaccine Confidence Project
  2. ↑ https://www.wlghconference.org/speakerheidilarson
  3. ↑ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01056-1
  4. ↑ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31612-3/fulltext}
  5. ↑ a b 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
  6. ↑ https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/larson.heidi
  7. ↑ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/vaccines-calling-shots.html
  8. ↑ https://www.jnj.com/health-and-wellness/the-director-of-the-vaccine-confidence-project-separates-vaccination-fact-from-fiction-unseen-enemy
  9. ↑ https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/rise-vaccine-hesitancy-related-pursuit-purity-prof-heidi-larson_en.html
  10. ↑ https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2016-09/vaccine-confidence-varies-widely-qa-heidi-larson
  11. ↑ https://depts.washington.edu/healthms/people/heidi-larson/
  12. ↑ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00150-7/fulltext
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