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EDITORIAL article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1557596
This article is part of the Research Topic Building Public Confidence in Innovative mRNA Vaccines View all 10 articles

Editorial: Building public confidence in Innovative mRNA vaccines

Provisionally accepted
Jia Hu Jia Hu 1*Kenneth Rabin Kenneth Rabin 2Cora Constantinescu Cora Constantinescu 1Heidi Larson Heidi Larson 3Scott Ratzan Scott Ratzan 2
  • 1 University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
  • 2 The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States
  • 3 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, London, United Kingdom

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    When we began work on this series some two years ago, we were acutely aware of a hardening 14 minority of global public opposition to vaccination. We did not, however, imagine that over the 15 intervening months, vaccination in general, and mRNA vaccines in particular, would escalate into a 16 political wedge issue that threatens to undermine the foundational role of immunization in public 17 health. 18Building public confidence in vaccines in general, and mRNA vaccines in particular, is more 19 important now than ever. The rapid development and launch of COVID-19 vaccines was estimated to 20 have saved over 14.4 million lives within the first year of their availability (

    Keywords: vaccine confidence, mRNA vaccines, Vaccine hesitancy, Vaccines, Public trust and confidence

    Received: 08 Jan 2025; Accepted: 15 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Hu, Rabin, Constantinescu, Larson and Ratzan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Jia Hu, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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