Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

Our goal is to bring scientific evidence

and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists,

community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas

or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question

at jhh.edu.

That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.

Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, the producer of Public Health On Call.

Thank you for joining us for Vaccine Week on the podcast. Today, in a special

two-part episode, we look at the landscape of vaccine hesitancy and what can be done to address it.

In part one, Hopkins vaccine safety expert Dr. Dan Solomon talks with Stephanie Desmond about his

research on acceptability of COVID-19 vaccines

in minority communities and the importance of listening to understand hesitancy to help people

feel more confident. In part two, Dr. Rupali Lame, a Hopkins expert in vaccine behavior and

decision-making, talks with Dr. Josh

Sharfstein about misinformation, why hesitancy around COVID-19 vaccines is different from

anti-vax groups for diseases like measles and creative strategies such as pre-bunking to address

misinformation. Let's listen.

Dan Salman, thanks so much for joining me.

Thank you for having me.

So today we're going to talk about vaccine acceptability.

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