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Sabin Vaccine Institute researchers to investigate COVID-19 misinformation

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

Sabin Vaccine Institute Funds Researchers to Investigate COVID-19 Misinformation, Design Solutions to Increase Vaccine Acceptance. The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) announced this week that it has awarded grants to research teams in four countries to explore the social drivers of COVID-19 misinformation, and its impact on routine immunization acceptance and the acceptance of a COVID-19 […]

Emergency health surveillance in Uganda

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Sam Hoare

As a public health physician who has previously worked with Medicins Sans Frontieres in Sierra Leone and Turkey, I’ve just finished an assignment setting up an emergency community health surveillance system in Palorinya refugee settlement, northern Uganda. Approximately 147,000 South Sudanese refugees have settled in Palorinya over the last few months, fleeing conflict and violence. […]