now here's the vaccine confidence project heidi larson.omeone who you are familiar with. she is a science journalist and award-winning author. his book is on global during a pandemic. her book, the coming plate newly emerging

now here's the vaccine confidence project heidi larson. suspected morning someone who you are familiar with. she is a science journalist and award-winning author. his book is on global during a pandemic. her book, the coming plate newly emerging diseases spent 19 weeks of the near times bestseller list. her new book the coming plague disease or disaster in a world out of balance of the published in august. you can get onto amazon and preorder that. heidi larson is a professor of anthropology, risk and decision science at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. she's also the founding director of the vaccine confidence project. again headquartered at the school of hygiene and tropical medicine. she wrote help vaccine rumors start and why they don't go away. and to moderate the discussion we have pat rosenstein who is the faculty member here at the ja. he and i have worked together for many, many years. he is also the special advisor of global health to the erasure group. which is a very prominent global group. so scott will enga

to set the stage for the discussion today, we will hear from heidi larson. she will share some of the recent analysis about global vaccine trends and explain how what is happening in the u.s. compares to other regions. i will turn the conversation over to steve morrison. co-chair of the panel, to introduce our next speakers and moderate the discussion. before we get started, let me remind those in the audience, there is a button on the events page that will send a question. the mic is yours. heidi: thank you very much. i just have two minutes here to put into context, over the past meetings and discussions, we have noticed and looked at data that has shown the ups and downs of public confidence and willingness since we started the pandemic. last june, these are wave 1, 2, and three. in the u.s.. as well as european countries. we saw the sentiment, the context went down. in september and october. that was after higher optimism or encouraging for a vaccine. that was back in june, the first way. and then september and october. toward the end of the year, confid