Trust in Institutions Affects Vaccination Campaign Outcomes

The Humanitarian Collaborative contributed to a newly published article in Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. To explore whether trust in institutions affects vaccination campaign outcomes, the authors used nationally representative, individual-level data for 114 countries and combined them with data on vaccination policies and rates to measure the speed of vaccination campaigns for each country. They find that higher trust in institutions significantly increased vaccination rates and vaccination speed, which has implications for the design of vaccination campaigns for national governments and international organizations. Read the full article HERE.