Industry News: Sabin Vaccine Institute funds investigation into COVID-19 misinformation and design solutions to increase vaccine acceptance
15 Jan 2021
Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) has announced that it has awarded grants to research teams in four countries to explore the social drivers of COVID-19 misinformation, and its impact on routine immunization acceptance and the acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The grants are part of Sabin’s Social and Behavioral Interventions for Vaccination Acceptance Small Grants Program, which provides funding to researchers in low- and middle-income countries to better understand the social drivers of vaccination and design small-scale interventions to assess their impact on vaccination acceptance.