Worlds of Connections: Vaccine Hesitancy

项目摘要/摘要 联系的世界：疫苗犹豫不决的动机是解决公众问题的迫切需要 对接种新冠肺炎疫苗犹豫不决。我们的团队，由国家环保总局派和社会学家朱莉娅领导 麦克奎兰，科学教育家朱迪·戴蒙德，教育家/医学社会学家帕特里夏·旺奇·希尔， 在NIH和NSF资助的病毒学推广工作的基础上，建立基于研究的实践 用叙事性漫画吸引公众，旨在创造对疫苗接种的积极态度 同时产生关于公共科学推广的有效方法的新知识 大流行。许多因素--包括家族史，在医疗机构的负面经历， 对疫苗的不信任--可能导致对接种疫苗持保留态度。不管是什么原因，很多人 美国人不打算利用这个机会接种新冠肺炎疫苗。 通过我们的专业研究人员、艺术家和教育工作者团队，我们利用学习研究 开发关于新冠肺炎疫苗价值的简短、引人入胜的漫画的方法。叙事者 将以当前科学为基础，旨在与具有特定文化背景的受众相关 和种族/民族认同。动员我们与出版商、学校、图书馆、博物馆的伙伴关系， 和媒体，我们将为不同的公众观众提供直接访问漫画叙事的途径 实物形式和数字形式。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Worlds of Connections: Vaccine Hesitancy is motivated by the critical need to address public hesitancy toward vaccination for COVID-19. Our team, led by SEPA PI and sociologist Julia McQuillan, science educator Judy Diamond, and educator/medical sociologist Patricia Wonch Hill, build on their NIH- and NSF-funded virology outreach work to establish research-based practice for engaging the public with narrative comics designed to create positive attitudes toward vaccination while generating new knowledge about effective methods for public science outreach during a pandemic. Numerous factors—including family history, negative experience with medical institutions, distrust of vaccines—can contribute to reservations about vaccinations. No matter the reason, many people in the U.S. do not plan to take advantage of the opportunity to be vaccinated for COVID-19. With our team of professional researchers, artists, and educators, we leverage learning research approaches to develop short, engaging comics about the value of COVID-19 vaccines. The narratives will be grounded in current science and designed to be relevant to audiences with specific cultural and racial/ethnic identities. Mobilizing our partnerships with publishers, schools, libraries, museums, and media, we will provide a diverse public audience with direct access to the comic narratives in physical and digital forms.