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| Nickname | VCP |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2010 |
| Purpose | To monitor public confidence in vaccines |
| Headquarters | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Vaccine Centre |
Director | Heidi Larson |
| Heidi Larson, Pierre Van Damme, Leesa Lin[1] | |
| Website | www |
The Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) founded in 2010 by Heidi Larson, was developed in response to hesitancy and misinformation on vaccination programmes such as those that caused a boycott of polio eradication efforts in Northern Nigeria in 2003–04. It is an early warning system to identify and evaluate public confidence in vaccines, with the purpose of tackling the problem early, when it is likely to be manageable.
Housed in the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Vaccine Centre, the VCP uses a diagnostic tool that finds what sparks vaccine rumours, examines and evaluates what spreads those rumours and calculates the potential impact. It is a member of the Vaccine Safety Net, a project led by the World Health Organization.