Department of Pediatrics

Vaccine Skeptics Aren’t Stupid. Here’s How to Change Their Minds

Written by U.S. News & World Report | December 16, 2024

Article co authored by David Higgins, MD, research fellow and instructor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: As a pediatrician and a pharmacist who research vaccines and vaccine hesitancy, we believe these conversations are often nonproductive for a simple reason: Human decision-making is not purely rational. We need to understand the deeper values behind each other’s views.