public opinion on vaccines

As vaccine exemptions are on the rise across states, the Ford School's Paula Lantz spoke with U.S. News & World Report on the issue and the concerns it poses to public health. Lantz asserted, “When you allow people to opt out of vaccine mandates beca...

Franshelly Martinez Ortiz, a doctoral candidate in political science and public policy at the Ford School, recently wrote a blog post, "In Michigan, conspiracy thinking can be rooted in real historic harm" for U-M's Center for Political Studies based...

Speaking with MLive, Shobita Parthasarathy observed the complexities behind vaccine hesitancy. “We’re letting social institutions, government institutions off the hook the more that we focus on the individual as the source of the hesitancy,” she said...

As the school year gets started, many are saying high vaccination rates are key to keeping schools in person. Jeffrey Morenoff, professor of public policy and sociology and director of the Population Studies Center, explained what may be affecting va...

Everyone has seen it while cruising through social media: anti-vaccine proponents (anti-vaxxers) demonizing immunization as a link to causing autism. Or you may have scrolled past a meme mocking such claims. While social media and the internet prolif...

A recently conducted survey directed by Dr. Matthew Davis is garnering national attention. The survey gauges the confidence parents in the U.S. have in vaccines. The poll, conducted by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, found t...