Mérieux Foundation event
Strategies to increase vaccine acceptance and uptake
September 26-28, 2016 - Les Pensieres Center for Global Health, Veyrier-du-Lac (France)
Summary
Significant gaps in coverage in both infant and adult immunization programs across the world mean that hundreds of millions of people are not being protected against serious infectious diseases. There are myriad reasons for low vaccine uptake including challenges to access, affordability, awareness, acceptance and simple activation of people to act.
This meeting will focus primarily on vaccine hesitancy, understanding the drivers and barriers to awareness, acceptance and activation, with a view to informing the development of effective strategies to close immunization gaps.
Information and education alone do not change behavior. So what might work?
The development and implementation of vaccination programs is built upon rigorous science to ensure efficacy, effectiveness, safety, quality and supply. However, a number of recent reviews suggest thatthe same scientific rigor is not being applied to a final crucial determinant of vaccination: uptake of vaccines by the public. These reviews consistently found poor quality in study design, including lack ofconsistent, reliable and validated outcome measures.
Successful development, implementation, and evaluation of vaccination uptake require the participation of individuals and communities, along with healthcare providers and researchers, the public and private sectors, and civil society organizations. Collaboration between those who generate the evidence and those who apply it in practice is key to success.
There are a few interventions that are effective in enhancing vaccination uptake. However, these are scattered and often hard to find and appraise. We must not let the best be the enemy of the good – there is an immediate need to find and share best practices with the global immunization community.
This meeting brings together people from diverse settings across the globe working in vaccination uptake for mutual learning and knowledge exchange. The ultimate aim is to improve interventions and develop them where they do not exist, so that more people get the vaccinations they need and better health for all can be achieved.
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Day 1 Monday, 26 September
Day 2 Tuesday, 27 September
Day 3 Wednesday, 28 September
Session 1 Rapid fire talks related to strategies to increase vaccine acceptance and uptake
Suzanne SUGGS
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8:50 - 9:00
How and why a large public health campaign on immunization may be effective (or not): insights from social psychology
Nicolas FIEULAINE
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9:00 - 9:10
Socio-psychological predictors of influenza vaccination behaviour: results from a 5-country study
Angus THOMSON
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9:20 - 9:30
Translation alone is not enough: introducing a “stakeholder –based” approach to the cultural adaptation of vaccination information materials
Sabrina CECCONI
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9:30 - 9:40
Lessons learned from Khushi Baby’s first randomized controlled trial in rural Udaipur, India
Ruchit NAGAR
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9:40 - 9:50
Finding goldilocks: how much information is "just right" in pregnancy immunisation decision making
Kerrie WILEY
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10:40 - 10:50
Improving flu vaccination uptake: EU country policies and communication strategies
Anne OHLROGGE
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10:50 - 11:00
Understanding uptake of immunization in "Travellers" and Gypsy communities
Cath JACKSON
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11:00 - 11:10
Communicate to vaccinate: a research project building evidence for the implementation and evaluation of communication for childhood vaccination
Jessica KAUFMAN
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12:00 - 12:15
Anthropological assessment for oral cholera vaccine acceptability and uptake
Rachel DEMOLIS
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Session 2 Provider-based interventions
Eve DUBE
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14:00 - 14:20
SARAH: an approach to vaccine communication in primary care
Julie LEASK
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14:35 - 14:55
Motivational interviewing session at birth increases vaccination acceptance and uptake
Arnaud GAGNEUR
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15:10 - 15:30
Levels of engagement with vaccination impacts risk perception and vaccination: decisions in healthcare workers
Gaelle VALLEE-TOURANGEAU
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Session 3 Public engagement approaches
Angus THOMSON
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16:15 - 16:35
What drives the biasing influence of narrative information on risk perceptions
Cornelia BETSCH
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17:25 - 17:45
Putting Evidence Based Research into Practice to Increase Vaccine Confidence
Amy PISANI
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Session 4 Behavioral insights
Gaelle VALLEE-TOURANGEAU
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9:05 - 9:25
Implementation science: a novel perspective on bridging the gap between evidence and immunisation acceptance
Nick SEVDALIS
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9:40 - 10:00
Social marketing: insight driven approaches to vaccination confidence building for all
Franklin APFEL
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10:45 - 12:15
Debate: That vaccination should be mandatory, with only medical exemptions
Saad OMER & Julie LEASK
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