343 - Combating Global Vaccine Hesitancy
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The US is not the only country facing COVID-19 vaccine hesitation. Around the world, public health officials are grappling with this issue that has the potential to slow or even derail efforts to end the pandemic. Dr. Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, talks with Stephanie Desmon about the spectrum of vaccine hesitancy, the promise of continuing medical education for doctors as a helpful tool, why it's crucial to address vaccine demand AND supply, and why there's no "silver bullet" despite the urgent need to get as many people vaccinated as possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.5 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, Stephanie Desmond talks |
| 0:51.7 | to Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health |
| 0:55.3 | and an expert on vaccine acceptance, about the dangers of the vaccine hesitancy that remains |
| 1:00.6 | in the U.S., and especially in places such as Africa. |
| 1:04.4 | Let's listen. |
| 1:06.1 | Saad Omer, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:08.9 | My pleasure. |
| 1:10.1 | Today I wanted to talk to you about vaccine hesitancy. |
| 1:13.7 | And I know that you have studied it long before COVID came around. |
| 1:18.1 | And I'm wondering if you could first give us a brief definition for our listeners. |
| 1:22.0 | So there are different definitions. |
| 1:24.2 | And so the more straightforward definitions talk about people who have concerns about |
| 1:29.1 | the act of vaccination. However, the way I look at it is based on some of the things WHO has |
| 1:36.8 | been talking about, which is that vaccine hesitancy is a spectrum. On the one end, you have people |
| 1:42.6 | who vociferously ask for vaccines. On the one end, you have people who vociferously ask for vaccines. On the other |
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