Episode 5 - John Kinsman - Vaccine Hesitancy and Misinformation

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Science

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we speak with John Kinsman, who is an expert in behavioural change at ECDC. John talks about vaccine hesitancy, the spread of health misinformation and what public health institutions can do to counter misinformation. For more information on vaccines, please visit the European Vaccine Information Portal.

“Vaccine hesitancy isn’t always the result of misinformation, there are also a lot of other explanations.”

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.3	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.4	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.4	Hello and welcome.
0:15.6	My name is Nicholas and I'm your host for today's ECDC on Air podcast,
0:19.6	the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention
0:22.0	and Control, which is recorded from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. This episode will touch
0:26.6	upon topics such as vaccine hesitancy, the spread of health misinformation, and our public health
0:31.4	authorities can best deal with all this. With me today, I have John Kinsman who works at ECDC as an expert on social and behavioral change.
0:53.3	Hello John, nice to have you here. Can you tell us about yourself and what's your background?
0:57.6	What do you do at ECDC? Thanks and thank you very much for the invitation to join here.
1:02.6	As you say, I'm working on social and behavior change here at ECDC. I've been here since April of 2019.
1:09.3	Before that I was working as an associate professor in Global Health
1:12.6	in UMio University in the north of Sweden. And I worked on various infectious disease issues,
1:17.9	AIDS, Ebola, Zika, and so on. And also I did some work as a contractor for ECDC before then.
1:23.6	So since I've been with ECDC, obviously most of the time has been the pandemic, and obviously
1:29.2	my work has been very, very focused on that, to do with risk communication, to do with online
1:34.9	vaccine misinformation, and also supporting socially vulnerable populations during lockdowns
1:40.5	and facilitating vaccination and things like that. So it's been very varied and a very rich
1:46.3	experience to have the opportunity to work here.
1:48.7	It's interesting to see here because your role at ECDC, I see this quite special. Most
1:53.5	experts here at the centre, they come from more like an epidemiological biochemistry background,
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