An Amsterdam catch-up for the social scientists

With data collection now complete for the first phase of the social science component for Yellow4FLAVI, researchers based in Germany visited the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) to discuss the next step of analysis.

Recently, additional data collection has been finalized with respondents in Germany – this supplemented previous focus groups and aimed to add further insights from women who are hesitant about new vaccine technologies. And, with data collection and processing completed in Colombia, the team are moving forward to undertake comparative analysis across the two countries.

Gentiana Kodra (AIGHD intern), Paula Dau (Charité) met in-person with Christopher Pell (AIGHD) in Amsterdam over two days to compare findings from the focus groups and interviews in Germany. Milena Bautista Gomez (CIDEIM) also joined sessions dedicated to discussing similarities and differences across the two countries in terms of attitudes to new vaccine technologies and to flavi virus vaccines – for yellow fever and tick-borne encephalitis.

The team is excited to share more about the findings from these studies in future publications – so watch this space!