Blog 2 of 4! Last time I posted about the various resources for mapping and the various maps that inspired me to create the “Atlas of Vaccine Hesitancy”. Today I will be sharing the map that is filled in nicely,…
Author: Melodie YunJu Song
Currently Health Policy PhD candidate at McMaster University and incoming Sherman Centre Digital Scholarship Residence for 2017-2018. I’m here to build an interactive crowdsourcing map called “The Atlas of Vaccine Hesitancy”, a project that will document and trace health beliefs around the globe that contributes to vaccine hesitancy. Cares about health for all. BSN, RN, MS in Public Health Policy and Management, GradCert in Global Health and HIV/STI prevention. Twitter @MelodieYJSong
Putting Health Beliefs on Maps
As an extension to my dissertation, this project stems from a long-standing interest in global health outreach, gender studies, and public health policy. Successful public health policies rely on a deep understanding of the various health beliefs that underpin health…
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Made possible by a generous gift from the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Foundation.
