The Random Sample
Tracking the Spread of Vaccine Hesitancy - with Prof Stacey Smith?
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Mathematics is often used to model how diseases spread. But what about the spread of information – or misinformation – about those diseases and their vaccines?
Professor Stacey Smith? from the University of Ottawa is a trans mathematician whose research focuses on modelling infectious diseases. Increasingly, her work has turned to the social and behavioural dynamics that shape anti‑vaccination…