Vaccine hesitancy in healthcare students: what is the evidence and how to rethink educational approaches?

Link to access the webinar: https://uvsq-fr.zoom.us/j/99104058954?pwd=TFpicjA3MVBRMFo2UmwzUk5SdVp4QT09

Recent COVID-19 pandemic has once again brought to the forefront vaccine hesitancy, defined as a delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability. Understanding it is crucial to prepare responses to potential future pandemics. It also represents an important challenge for non-pandemic vaccines. Vaccine education in healthcare training courses is therefore the cornerstone of building vaccine confidence.

In the framework of the European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH), partners from Universities of Lund, Szeged and Versailles St-Quentin / Paris-Saclay gathered their expertise and mobilized their experiences to organize a one-day seminar about vaccine hesitancy in healthcare students. The seminar is intended for students, teachers, researchers from several disciplines, as well as for academic societies, decision makers, public health authorities…

The morning session will cover existing knowledge on vaccine hesitancy from different perspectives such as social sciences, epidemiology, and public health. The afternoon session will be dedicated to innovations in vaccine education: the need for a multi-professional environment, contribution of digital literacy, and simulation approaches.