Emotional Contagion in Times of COVID: From Fear to Hope

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health and the USC COVID-19 Pandemic Research Center (CPRC) invite you to join us for a special Grand Rounds in Population and Public Health with the world’s leading expert on vaccine hesitancy.

The event features Dr. Heidi Larson, director of The Vaccine Confidence Project and professor of anthropology, risk and decision science at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Dr. Larson will discuss the power of emotions and beliefs in the COVID response, and how historic and current inequities can fuel fear around mass vaccination campaigns.

The event will also feature reactions and commentary from Dr. Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, associate dean for community initiatives at the USC Keck School of Medicine, and Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, clinical professor of population and public health sciences at the USC Keck School of Medicine.

To learn more and register for this free webinar, click here.