Historically, there has been a tendency to promote misleading stereotypes that view emotions as evidence of irrationality, loss of control, and maladaptive behaviour.
Recent research provides an opportunity to rethink the nature and functions of emotion in the context of health, with important implications for medical and public health research, practice and policy. In the context of the Lancet Commission on the Emotional Determinants of Health, join Heidi Larson, Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, as she explores new ways to rethink and move this agenda forward.
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Heidi Larson:
Heidi J Larson, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine(UK); Clinical Professor, Institute for Health Metrics &Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle(USA); and Visiting Professor, University of Antwerp and KULeuven, Belgium. Professor Larson is founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project and her research focuses on managing risk and building trust in vaccines and therapeutics from trials to delivery, and building public cooperation in the context of pandemics and other large scale crises. In 2021, Professor Larson launched the Global Listening Project to investigate ecosystems of trust in the context of the COVID-pandemic, and conducting a 70-country study of public experiences and trust a during the COVID-19 pandemic to inform future preparedness.
In 2020, Professor Larson together with the Lancet launched the Commission on the Emotional Determinants of Health which she Chairs.
Professor Larson previously headed Strategy and Communications around new vaccine introduction for UNICEF’s Global Immunisation Programme, chaired Gavi’s Advocacy Task Force, and served on the WHO SAGE Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy. Professor Larson is the author of STUCK: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why They Don’t Go Away (Oxford University Press, 2020). In 2021 she was named by BBC as one of the 100 most influential women in the world and was awarded the 2021 Edinburgh Award for Science.
