2021 Virtual Meeting Archive

Biobehavioral and Social Mechanisms of Infections, Vaccinations, and Vaccination Refusal

VIDEO: Fireside chat on viral infections, vaccinations and vaccination refusal - a conversation and discussion for behavioral and mechanistic scientists

Kavita Vedhara, Professor of Health Psychology
Steve Cole, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Heidi Larson, Professor of Anthropology and Risk and Decision Science
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Psychosocial Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Background reading
• Pandemic stress and its predictors
• Lockdown vs lock-up
• Pandemics and the great evolutionary mis-match
Psychosocial Influences on Viral Infection

Background Reading
• Psychosocial influences on respiratory virus infection
• Social regulation of antiviral response
• Social neuroplasticity and antiviral resistance
• Neuroendocrine mechanisms
Psychosocial influences on vaccines

Background reading
• Mood and vaccine responses
• Psychological adjuvants in vaccination
Mechanisms of Psychosocial Effects on Immune Function

Background reading
• Stress and Health: A Review of Psychobiological Processes
• Health psychology: developing biologically plausible models linking the social world and physical health
Psychosocial influences on vaccine uptake

Background reading
• STUCK: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why They Don’t Go Away
• The public health crisis of underimmunisation: a global plan of action
• Mapping global trends in vaccine confidence and investigating barriers to vaccine uptake

VIDEO: Fireside chat on viral infections, vaccinations and vaccination refusal - a conversation and discussion for behavioral and mechanistic scientists

Psychosocial Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic