The COVID-19 vaccines rush: participatory community engagement matters more than ever

Affiliations

¹ UCL Institute for Global Health, London WC1N 1EH. Electronic address: r.burgess@ucl.ac.uk.
² Centre for Global Health and Equity, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia.
³ AU-ASRIC Afro-centric COVID-19 Working Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria.
⁴ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵ William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
⁶ Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences Christian Medical College, Vellore, TN, India.
⁷ Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
⁸ Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Italy.
⁹ Department of Health Care Management, Technical University Berlin, Germany.
¹⁰ Department of Preventive Medicine and INCLIVA, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
¹¹ School of Psychology and Neuroscience, St Andrews University, Fife, UK.
¹² Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Rochelle Ann Burgess et al. Lancet. 2021.

. 2021 Jan 2;397(10268):8-10.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32642-8. Epub 2020 Dec 10.

¹ UCL Institute for Global Health, London WC1N 1EH. Electronic address: r.burgess@ucl.ac.uk.
² Centre for Global Health and Equity, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia.
³ AU-ASRIC Afro-centric COVID-19 Working Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria.
⁴ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵ William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
⁶ Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences Christian Medical College, Vellore, TN, India.
⁷ Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
⁸ Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Italy.
⁹ Department of Health Care Management, Technical University Berlin, Germany.
¹⁰ Department of Preventive Medicine and INCLIVA, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
¹¹ School of Psychology and Neuroscience, St Andrews University, Fife, UK.
¹² Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

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