Dornsife Population Health Spotlight Series With Dr. Heidi Larson

“Infectious Disease: Prevention, Prediction, and Perspectives” is the theme of the Dornsife School of Public Health’s 2024-25 Population Health Spotlight Series. Speaker: Heidi J. Larson, PhD, is an anthropologist and director of The Vaccine Confidence Project™; professor of anthropology, risk, and decision science, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; clinical professor, Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington; guest professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium; and a former fellow at the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security. Larson previously headed global immunization communication at UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), chaired Gavi’s Advocacy Task Force, and served on the World Health Organization Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (WHO SAGE) Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy. The Vaccine Confidence Project™ is a WHO Centre of Excellence on addressing vaccine hesitancy.