Foreword
Welcome!
This course provides insights into factors that make communication around the benefit and risks of vaccination challenging. In particular, it describes how risk perceptions related to vaccines and infectious diseases can influence vaccination acceptance. It then explores the strategies that can enhance communication on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
The course also takes a closer look at how tools like data visualisation can help make complex information on vaccine benefits and risks more clear and easy to understand.
At the end of this training, you should be able to:
- Explain how perceptions around benefits and risks of vaccination influence individuals' decisions regarding vaccination.
- Assess the effectiveness of different communication strategies used to convey vaccine safety and effectiveness.
- Appraise how data visualisations can help to accurately and clearly communicate complex vaccine information to diverse audiences.
The estimated duration to complete the course is 50-60 minutes.
Enjoy your learning!
To get a course completion certificate, you need to first log in and enrol.
Then you need to complete the following activities:
- Complete the about yourself survey
- View the interactive lecture
- Answer the post‑course feedback survey