Tales of Vaccine Hesitancy: How Can Physicians, Scientists, & Journalists Promote Public Health for Children and Families?

press release: This free, public event explores the intersection of science writing and public health related to vaccine refusal, abstention, and hesitancy. Panel members include:

Apoorva Mandavilli UW-Madison’s spring 2019 Science Writer in Residence, is an award-winning science journalist writing most often about infectious diseases, the brain, and public health and policy.

Malia Jones, PhD, MPH, is a public health researcher and social epidemiologist at the UW-Madison Applied Population Lab and an affiliate of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being (CCFW). Her research focuses on the social and spatial determinants of health at the population level. Dr. Jones is funded by the National Institutes of Health to study patterns of vaccine hesitancy and refusal for recommended childhood vaccines.

Dipesh Navsaria, MD, MPH, MSLIS, is a professor of pediatrics at the UW-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health. He directs the MD-MPH program, translates basic science and clinical medicine for a wide variety of audiences, is active as a patient advocate, and is an affiliate of the CCFW and the UW-Madison Prenatal to Five Initiative.

James Conway, MD, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics at the UW-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health. He serves as Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Director and Director of Global Health, as well as Associate Director for Health Sciences in the campus-wide UW Global Health Institute.

Panel will be moderated by Larissa G. Duncan, Ph.D., Director, Center for Child and Family Well-Being, School of Human Ecology 

This event is hosted by the Center for Child and Family Well-Being and UW-Madison Communications as part of the spring 2019 Science Writer in Residence, Apoorva Mandavilli.