12 Facts About Heidi Larson

Heidi J Larson is an American anthropologist and the founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project.

Heidi Larson was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021.

The daughter of a priest and civil rights advocate, Heidi Larson grew up in Massachusetts.

Heidi Larson graduated from Kent School, Kent, Connecticut in 1975.

Heidi Larson worked for Save the Children in the West Bank and in Nepal after college.

Heidi Larson worked for several companies in the 1990s, including Apple and Xerox.

Heidi Larson went to UNICEF to study the impact of fax machines on how employees accomplish their work.

Heidi Larson went back to UNICEF in 2000, working on global communications for several of the agency's vaccination programs.

Heidi Larson developed an expertise on working with local health workers to defuse rumors that threatened to derail vaccination initiatives.

Since 2015, Heidi Larson has been leading a European Union project to support vaccination efforts in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, identifying and countering rumours that may reduce the effectiveness of the campaign.

Heidi Larson is Director of European Initiatives at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.

Professor Heidi Larson is married to the Belgian virologist Peter Piot.