Why should you #GetBoosted? 🚀🤔
"A #COVID19 booster vaccine provides longer-term protection and prevents you from getting seriously ill."
Great to see @DrAlexBowmer featured in this important @DHSCgovuk campaign!
#VaccinesWork
How can we encourage people to get vaccinated?
@ProfHeidiLarson says identifying "local, trusted individuals" within communities could help, such as:
💈 Barbers
🧑🌾 Farmers
🩺 Doctors
⛪️ Priests
👇 @POLITICOEurope#COVID19#VaccinesWork@vaccine_trust https://t.co/FDARzGdwTf
Public health expert @DrAlexBowmer from @LSHTM explains why it’s important for eligible people to get the #COVID19 booster.
More info ▶️ https://t.co/6twN7CJWvz
#GetBoosted
Our new article on social engagements with vaccination in Sierra Leone’s borderlands is out! Product of a collaboration with the Kambia DHMT and 10 Community Health Workers we trained in social science research methods
https://t.co/g1UdT0aRnk
Great start to our Vaccine a confidence review meeting this morning at the Kambia District Health Management Team to feedback research findings and strategise for the future
🎙️New Epicast by @SonarGlobalEU 🎙️
In this Epicast, we explore #socialscience perspectives on #vaccine deployment during disease outbreaks through the lens of Project AViD. Warmest thanks to the contributors! 👏
▶️ https://t.co/PNnLaBRiWv
In this new Epicast episode (@SonarGlobalEU), I speak to the fantastic AViD project team about using a critical #anthro approach to explore how to optimize vaccine uptake during a disease outbreak. #whysocsci
@Shelleylees @DrAlexBowmer@luisaenria
https://t.co/uKZLR2PQUr
❓What we can learn from attitudes towards veterinary #vaccination in southern Uganda?
✅work with, not against, alternative healthcare providers
✅understand & engage w/ rumours & concerns about vaccines
Read @DrAlexBowmer's blog👉https://t.co/KYuMZcCwwE
#SocialScience@LSHTM
🖋️NEW BLOG: @DrAlexBowmer shares reflections from a case study in Uganda 🇺🇬 highlighting the need to understand local knowledge and health-seeking behaviours to improve #vaccine deployment & administration
Read it here 👉https://t.co/KYuMZcCwwE
@LSHTM @AViD_Vaccines @USAID
📝NEW BLOG: @Shelleylees @luisaenria@chrissyhroberts Myfanwy James & Anthony Mansaray share reflections on what social science research teaches us about #COVID19 vaccine deployment
Read it here 👉https://t.co/m7e6vGdFVk
@LSHTM @mleach_ids @IDS_UK
New blog post by @Shelleylees @luisaenria @JamesMyfanwy Anthony Mansaray & @chrissyhroberts for @SSHAP_action released today! Read it here - https://t.co/FtRX88LXry
Proud to be ranked #3 in the 🌍 and #1 in UK for #PublicHealth by @ShanghaiRanking for the second year in a row! 🥳
Based on research and reputation, this ranking reflects our amazing students and staff 🙌
Further your #GlobalHealth career with us 👉 https://t.co/pyM2l8wKxx
Thanks @BBCNewsnight for asking me on yesterday with @ReicherStephen. Young people should get vaccinated to protect themselves, loved ones&help end the pandemic. Social media misinformation plays on fears/doubts but work of @projecthalo+others is helping fill the information void
Excited our project 'Typhoid, Cockles, and Terrorism' has been funded by the IRC-AHRC #digitalhumanities awards. Couldn't be more pleased to be Co-PI with @kirchhelle and have @EmilyWebz join us for collaborative research between the UK and Ireland @OxfordVacGroup@UniofOxford
As a global scientific community, is it within our remit to fight for vaccine equity? The answer is 💯
We call for #VaccineJustice rather than a charity model which serves to enhance the existing resource-poor vs. resource-rich dichotomy.
https://t.co/FqaBvtXiJg
Read our letter on vaccine justice
Charity won't do. Waive IP, transfer knowledge & technology and scale up production & distribution
https://t.co/MUik04lFmp
‘Vaccine inequity is amongst the most significant social justice issues of a generation, and it poses a major threat to the global response to COVID-19. Donating surplus doses is simply not enough…’ Read more here - https://t.co/M9fypdMPwC @LSHTM@LSHTM_Crises
Watch public health expert @DrAlexBowmer from @LSHTM explain why the second dose of the #COVID19 vaccine is so important 👇
Full Q&A here: https://t.co/ZBoRoxTLvu