As the holiday season approaches, public health experts are sounding the alarm about low vaccination rates against the coronavirus, flu and RSV. With gatherings and travel on the rise, many people are ...

Koytak is a sociologist and visiting assistant professor at the University of Mississippi, specializing in public health, race and inequality. When the first Covid-19 vaccines were developed, I felt ...

Public health officials say vaccine hesitancy may be influencing the steady drop in student vaccination rates. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, shifting views on vaccines have become ...

A new analysis reveals how the pandemic’s vaccine triumphs also amplified distrust, showing that future progress depends on trust, governance, and equity as much as science. Commentary: Pandemic ...

The rise in vaccine-preventable diseases around the world is threatening decades of progress in public health and putting millions of people at risk. The decline in vaccination coverage in the United ...

Public health researchers define vaccine hesitancy as a delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite the availability of vaccination services. A new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center ...

RFK Jr. is a high-profile face of vaccine hesitancy, but people's vaccine concerns fall on a much broader spectrum. This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s "America Undone” series, examining how ...

COVID-19 vaccine politicization has deepened public health distrust, disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities and exacerbating health disparities. NIH's termination of 33 vaccine hesitancy ...