Please come and be with us on Thursday, 13 July 18:30 CEST. This time WONCA Europe is organizing a webinar on “From vaccination hesitancy to health – bridging the gap”. The webinar will be given by Prof Dorit Nitzan and hosted by Dr Ferdinando Petrazzuoli.
It is now well-recognized that vaccination hesitancy and denial are major threats to global health. In this presentation, Prof Nitzan will analyze the different vectors that pull- and push vaccination coverage and suggest adding the sixth C for vaccination hesitancy: Cohesive groups. She will highlight the important roles of primary healthcare physicians and their teams in counteracting such networks by forming new ones. These include identifying strong advocates for vaccination in the community and bridging them with those who are hesitant. This can build stronger compliance by creating supportive networks that improve health literacy in general, and vaccination literacy, in particular.
About Lecturer Prof Dorit Nitzan, MD, MPH, RD
Dorit Nitzan is a professor at Ben Gurion University (BGU). She joined the university in 2022 and directs the Masters Program in Emergency Medicine – Preparedness and Response at the School of Public Health. In addition, she is the Chair of the newly established BGU “Food Systems, One Health and Resilience”, the “BGU-FOR”, Center.
Dorit returned to Israel from the World Health Organization (WHO) where she served since 2005. From 2016 she was based in the WHO Regional Office, lately as the Regional Emergency Director. From 2012 to 2016 She was the WHO Representative and Head of the Country Office in Ukraine, and from 2005 to 2012 she served as the WHO Representative and Head of Offices in Serbia (and until 2009 – Montenegro) and the Public Health Manager for the South-east European Health Network. She returned to Israel in August 2022 after being recalled to lead the Incident Management Team and the WHO humanitarian response in Ukraine.
