Episode 2 ¦ Vaccine Hesitancy among Healthcare Workers

15:12, Tue 15 Nov 2022

In the second episode of our podcast series, Professor Tom Sorell from the University of Warwick speaks to Dr Mayuri Gogoi, a research associate at University of Leicester. They discussed Covid vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minority health care workers in the UK. Vaccine hesitancy was related to attitudes toward the National Health Service (NHS) as employer: career advancement for ethnic minorities was considered slower and this affected general trust in the NHS from health care workers, including trust in the vaccine. The poor provision of Personal Protective Equipment for health care workers by the NHS was another source of distrust concerning the vaccine. Dr Gogoi points out that vaccine hesitancy is compatible with taking the vaccine under pressure, and that many health care workers were vaccine hesitant though vaccine compliant. Dr Gogoi’s research was drawn from a large study called UK Reach, which was principally concerned with poorer health outcomes for ethnic minorities during the Covid pandemic.

Dr Gogoi reported on her findings from UK Reach at a presentation in June 2020. Her presentation can be found here.

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