Heidi Larson
 Heidi Larson    (anthropologist, propagandist) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | US | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Harvard University, University of California (Berkeley) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Peter Piot | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Founder of | Vaccine Confidence Project | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | BBC/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.
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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 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.
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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
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Call to Action: CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation | 19 October 2020 | 19 October 2020 | Strategic public-private master plan for medical censorship and vaccine persuasion. | |
| StratCom DC 2019 | 23 October 2019 | 24 October 2019 | Washington DC | Spooky conference arranged by the powerful Atlantic Council to discuss how to expand censorship |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World 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/2022 | 22 May 2022 | 26 May 2022 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 1912 guests in Davos |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |
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}
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
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