Background Papers

The five commissioned papers included in Part 2 explore the challenges and potential barriers to vaccine acceptance and identify bold solutions. They clarify many of the reasons for vaccine hesitancy; how social movements emerge and succeed; what works to broaden vaccine acceptance; an analysis of the anti-vaccine movement; and how online misinformation contributes to the problem.

Part 2 offers 5 articles, presented to you in PDF format, that describe the challenges related to vaccine hesitancy and acceptance.

1. The Challenge of Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance: An Overview
2. What We Know About Movement Emergence and Success
3. What Works to Increase Vaccination Uptake
4. The Complex Contagion of Doubt in the Anti-Vaccine Movement
5. Online Misinformation about Vaccines