Vaccine hesitancy part 1: Using connections to drive human-centered approaches for health
During a late-night car ride through the Athens hills, I realized that a colleague of mine was vehemently opposed to vaccination. He teaches at a world-leading university and has founded a visionary company; we even live in the same tech-savvy neighborhood in California. And yet there we were: after an intense day of brainstorming with more than a thousand European innovators, he opened up to me about the terrible neurological injury that his son had suffered after a routine vaccination. In my colleague’s telling, overnight his son transformed from a charming and open boy with a sunny smile into a withdrawn, nonverbal shadow of his former self.