Episode 1 ¦ Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy Among Racial Minority Groups

14:53, Tue 15 Nov 2022

In this first episode of our video podcast series, Professor Tom Sorell from the University of Warwick speaks to Professor Shaun Treweek from the University of Aberdeen. The discussion centres on differences in vaccine hesitancy between UK ethnic minority groups that might otherwise seem to be similar. Higher rates of hesitancy are traced to, among other things, racist hostility of the majority UK population toward some minorities; the anti-immigrant policy of at least one previous UK government; and the tendency of some members of minority groups in the UK to adopt attitudes toward take-up from their countries of origin. More assimilated ethnic groups in the UK tended to have a higher take-up of the vaccine.

The interview with Prof. Treweek follows up on a presentation he gave in June 2022 to a workshop on research findings about Covid-vaccine hesitancy among a range of different groups from the UK population.

Shaun's presentation can be found here.

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