Heidi Larson - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• PhD(1990) MA (1985)Social Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
  
• BA (1979) Harvard University

Positions

• 2010 - present Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine, UK
  
• 2013 - present Clinical Professor, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  
• 2022 - present Visiting Professor, University of Singapore
  
• 2021 - present Guest Professor, KULeuven, Belgium
  
• 2018 - present Guest Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  
• 2006 - 2010 Associate Research Professor, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA
  
• 2005 - 2010 Research Associate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Selected Publications

1. Kattumana T, Larson HJ. (2025) Building trust during crises by engaging distrust. Frontiers in Public Health.

2. Larson, H. J., & Toledo, A. H. (2023). Nurturing, nudging and navigating the increasingly precarious nature of cooperation in public health: the cases of vaccination and organ donation. Global Discourse, 13(3-4), 290-315.

3. Choi Y, Leung K, Wu JT, Larson HJ, Lin L. (2025) Identifying vaccine-hesitant subgroups in the Western Pacific using latent class analysis. NPJ Vaccines;10(1):29.

4. Xu J, Wu Z, Wass L, Larson HJ, Lin L (2024) Mapping global public perspectives on mRNA vaccines and therapeutics. NPJ Vaccines 9(218).

5. Piatek SJ, Haines A, Larson HJ. (2024) We need to tackle the growing threat of mis- and disinformation about climate change and health. BMJ;387:q2187

6. Zhou X, Zhang X, Larson HJ, et al. .(2024) Spatiotemporal trends in COVID-19 vaccine sentiments on a social media platform and correlations with reported vaccine coverage. Bull World Health Organ. 102(1):32-45

Board, other roles:

• PATH Board of Directors
  
• Global Virus Network Board of Directors
  
• World Economic Forum, Global Coalition for Digital Safety
  
• Adult Immunization Mobilization Brain Trust (AIM)
  
• Asia-Pacific Immunization Coalition (APIC), Co-chair
  
• U.S. National Academies Committee on Misleading Information about Infectious Disease Outbreaks and Biological Threats
  
• National Institutes of Health (USA) Covid-19 Vaccine Communication Expert Panel
• Associate Editor, Vaccine
  
• Associate Editor, BMC Public Health