Five ways public health professionals can help battle vaccine hesitancy

Five ways public health professionals can help battle vaccine hesitancy

Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH, director and founding dean at UCI’s future School of Population and Public Health, and professor of neurology, School of Medicine writes, “As a public health professional and academic leader at a research university, my biggest fear lies with the struggle we face to reach the vaccine-resistant. Science-denialism represents an organized, anti-establishment movement to reject mainstream science and legitimize falsehoods. … How do we effectively respond to science denialism? … Here’s what we need to keep doing ….”