Meningococcal meningitis is a deadly acute bacterial infection caused by the Neisseria meningitidis bacterium that affects the membrane covering the brain and spinal cord. The World Health Organization launched the "Defeating bacterial meningitis by 2030" initiative in 2018, which relies on...

We study attitudes toward offering monetary payments for vaccination. We develop the Policy Lab, an experimental paradigm to characterize policy preferences in which participants decide whether to implement actual interventions to influence others' real-world behavior. In two studies with...

We estimate the effect of COVID-19 vaccination on economic growth in OECD countries using forecast errors in quarterly real GDP growth. These forecasts were published at the end of 2020, before vaccines were approved or widely anticipated, making them a credible benchmark to identify the...

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer affecting women worldwide. It is caused by persistent infection with oncogenic types of human papillomavirus (HPV). More than 200 types of HPV have been identified and more than 40 types of them infect the genital tract. HPV 16 and 18 are the two...

How did Nordic countries manage the tensions and ethical dilemmas of national health security and international solidarity during the Covid-19 vaccine response? This DIIS working paper examines Norway's Covid-19 vaccine procurement and distribution strategy within the framework of the SCANVAX...

How did Nordic countries manage the tensions and ethical dilemmas of national health security and international solidarity during the Covid-19 vaccine response? This DIIS working paper examines Denmark's Covid-19 vaccine procurement and distribution strategy within the framework of the SCANVAX...

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted daily life and exacerbated global inequalities, leading policymakers to seek innovative, evidence-based solutions to mitigate its impacts. By March 2023, the pandemic had resulted in approximately 6.88 million reported deaths and 14.83 million excess...

Whilst it is well established that COVID-19 vaccination protects against severe outcomes of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, such as hospitalisation and death [1,2], there is still uncertainty as to whether vaccination also reduces the risk and/or duration of a wide range of post-acute COVID-19...

This protocol presents an updated common methodology for estimating COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) using established health data registries in participating European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) Member States. This work is performed within the Vaccine Effectiveness, Burden...

Vaccines and seeds are the most significant resources in the poultry industry, particularly for chicken as a global staple. However, designing a resilient network for the poultry vaccine supply chain to create a viable poultry industry has been neglected. Hence, this paper contributes to the...

This paper investigates the effect of herd behavior, or information cascades, on the willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19. We use the 2021/2022 wave of the European Social Survey combined with data from the organization Our World in Data and measure the herding behavior as the change in...

Cervical cancer, primarily caused by persistent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection, remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths among women in developing countries. Although HPV vaccines are widely available in these regions, vaccine uptake remains persistently low. To address...

he authors use county-level data to test whether an array of socioeconomic, demographic, political and religious variables explain COVID-19 vaccination rates. Results presented here build upon previous investigations of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in different contexts and are largely consistent...

This paper examines the long-term effects of childhood vaccination on educational and health outcomes. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey, we leverage the variation in timing and quality of the Village Midwife Program's implementation in the 1990s as a source of vaccination access...

The infodemic, which accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic, underscored how difficult it can be for people to find reliable health information online. This massive wave of false and misleading information created confusion and distrust and endangered the public health responses that countries were...

In September 2023, ECDC updated its COVID-19 vaccination coverage data analysis process, in view of the evolving timing and objective of the 2023-24 season vaccination campaigns in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). This report presents an interim description of COVID-19 vaccine...

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer affecting women worldwide. It is caused by persistent infection with oncogenic types of human papillomavirus (HPV). More than 200 types of HPV have been identified and more than 40 types of them infect the genital tract. HPV 16 and 18 are the two...