TY - JOUR
T1 - The public's role in COVID-19 vaccination
T2 - Human-centered recommendations to enhance pandemic vaccine awareness, access, and acceptance in the United States
AU - Schoch-Spana, Monica
AU - Brunson, Emily K.
AU - Long, Rex
AU - Ruth, Alexandra
AU - Ravi, Sanjana J.
AU - Trotochaud, Marc
AU - Borio, Luciana
AU - Brewer, Janesse
AU - Buccina, Joseph
AU - Connell, Nancy
AU - Hall, Laura Lee
AU - Kass, Nancy
AU - Kirkland, Anna
AU - Koonin, Lisa
AU - Larson, Heidi
AU - Lu, Brooke Fisher
AU - Omer, Saad B.
AU - Orenstein, Walter A.
AU - Poland, Gregory A.
AU - Privor-Dumm, Lois
AU - Quinn, Sandra Crouse
AU - Salmon, Daniel
AU - White, Alexandre
N1 - Funding Information:
The research and recommendations presented in this paper are a product of the 23-person Working Group on Readying Populations for COVID-19 Vaccine ( Table 1 ). This group was convened in April 2020 by principal investigators from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Texas State University Department of Anthropology with support from the National Science Foundation-funded CONVERGE Initiative [11] . The purpose of the working group was to develop and disseminate recommendations informed by design thinking and evidence from social, behavioral, and communication sciences, that would support realistic planning for a US COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Members of the working group—listed as authors on this paper—included national figures in public health and social science with research, policy, and practice expertise in vaccinology, vaccine hesitancy/confidence, health disparities, infectious disease, bioethics, epidemiology, bioinformatics, public health law, pandemic mitigation, public health preparedness, mass vaccination campaigns, community engagement, and crisis and emergency risk communication.
Funding Information:
This COVID-19 Working Group effort was supported by the National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network and the CONVERGE facility at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder (NSF Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF, SSEER, or CONVERGE.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/9/24
Y1 - 2021/9/24
N2 - Given the social and economic upheavals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, political leaders, health officials, and members of the public are eager for solutions. One of the most promising, if they can be successfully developed, is vaccines. While the technological development of such countermeasures is currently underway, a key social gap remains. Past experience in routine and crisis contexts demonstrates that uptake of vaccines is more complicated than simply making the technology available. Vaccine uptake, and especially the widespread acceptance of vaccines, is a social endeavor that requires consideration of human factors. To provide a starting place for this critical component of a future COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the United States, the 23-person Working Group on Readying Populations for COVID-19 Vaccines was formed. One outcome of this group is a synthesis of the major challenges and opportunities associated with a future COVID-19 vaccination campaign and empirically-informed recommendations to advance public understanding of, access to, and acceptance of vaccines that protect against SARS-CoV-2. While not inclusive of all possible steps than could or should be done to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination, the working group believes that the recommendations provided are essential for a successful vaccination program.
AB - Given the social and economic upheavals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, political leaders, health officials, and members of the public are eager for solutions. One of the most promising, if they can be successfully developed, is vaccines. While the technological development of such countermeasures is currently underway, a key social gap remains. Past experience in routine and crisis contexts demonstrates that uptake of vaccines is more complicated than simply making the technology available. Vaccine uptake, and especially the widespread acceptance of vaccines, is a social endeavor that requires consideration of human factors. To provide a starting place for this critical component of a future COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the United States, the 23-person Working Group on Readying Populations for COVID-19 Vaccines was formed. One outcome of this group is a synthesis of the major challenges and opportunities associated with a future COVID-19 vaccination campaign and empirically-informed recommendations to advance public understanding of, access to, and acceptance of vaccines that protect against SARS-CoV-2. While not inclusive of all possible steps than could or should be done to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination, the working group believes that the recommendations provided are essential for a successful vaccination program.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Community engagement
KW - Epidemic management/response
KW - SARS-CoV-2
KW - Vaccine confidence
KW - Vaccine uptake
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U2 - 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.10.059
DO - 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.10.059
M3 - Article
C2 - 33160755
AN - SCOPUS:85095588448
SN - 0264-410X
VL - 39
SP - 6004
EP - 6012
JO - Vaccine
JF - Vaccine
IS - 40
ER -