WORKING GROUP

COVID Vaccines and Vaccine Confidence - How New Vaccines have Changed Attitudes and Perceptions and the Influence on other Vaccination Uptake and Confidence

Focus: Looking at the ever-important and overarching task of increasing vaccine confidence but within the COVID Era. In particular, it's essential to establish how COVID vaccination policies have affected trends, attitudes and trust among the three main social groups; the believers, the indifferent, and those against vaccines. The Working Group of key stakeholders, experts and association representatives aim to identify the changes in awareness, understanding across Europe. The Group are tasked with seizing the unique opportunity for vaccine confidence to be boosted across Europe in 2022 and beyond.

If you wish to participate please nominate yourself or your organisation

Members of each group collaborating throughout the year through online tools and the Vaccines Together Platform.

BRIEFINGS 

DISCUSSIONS

STATEMENTS 

SUGGESTED ACTIONS

MEMBERS

Jess McNamara (EPSA) ● Daphne Holt (CLCI) ● Nenad Miljković (EAHP) ● Mihai Craiu ● Barbara Rath (ViVI) ● Mariano Votta (ACN) ● Roy Philip ● Catherine Weil Olivier ● Silvia Romeo (Think Young) ● Marianne Chagnon (UEMS) ● Elizabeth Adams (EFN) ● Alison Maaasen (EuroHealthNet) ● Maria Viegas (EMSA) ● Sam Nye (CoMO) ● Daniela Quaggia (ACN) ● Gary Finnegan (Vaccines Today) ● Irena Bralic

SUGGESTED ACTIONS AND CAMPAIGNS 2021/22

Based on all the work and collaboration between the Working Groups, both in the Expert mapping surveys and the Working Groups that took place in 2020, the reports include Observations, Challenges, Strategies and Suggested Campaigns/Actions for each barrier or observation.

Working alongside partners and supporters we will then tackle as many areas and conduct as many proposed actions as possible to overcome barriers to vaccination uptake.