[Poscgrad] Fwd: SPP talk (Dec. 7): Katie Attwell "America’s New Vaccine Wars: California and the Politics of Mandates"

[Jennifer Merolla]

SPP asked me to circulate information on an upcoming talk.

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*"America’s New Vaccine Wars: California and the Politics of Mandates"*
Katie Attwell, Associate Professor, University of Western Australia

Thursday, December 7, 3:30-5:00pm, Highlander Union Building 379:

*Abstract:*
America's New Vaccine Wars is a new release book focusing on recent efforts
to eliminate nonmedical exemptions to school and daycare vaccine mandates.
These policy developments have increased immunization rates, but they have
also ignited polarizing, nationwide debates about parents' rights,
democracy, and the authority of the government to use coercion to promote
health. America's New Vaccine Wars is grounded in a case study of
California's efforts to exclude unvaccinated children from school and
daycare following the Disneyland Measles Outbreak of 2014. It uses original
interviews with key policymakers and activists to explain the development
and execution of California's new vaccination policies. This talk maps out
some key considerations of the book for parents, doctors, and the politics
of public health, considering downstream implications for policymaking and
politics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

*Bio:*
Associate Professor Katie Attwell is a political science and public policy
scholar at the University of Western Australia, where she leads VaxPolLab.
She is an Honorary Fellow of the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and
Infectious Diseases at Telethon Kids Institute, Perth and is the Chair of
the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation (COSSI), Australia’s
national network of vaccination social science researchers. A/Prof Attwell
is a global expert in vaccine hesitancy and vaccination policies for
childhood and COVID-19 vaccines. Her recent Discovery Early Career
Researcher Award fellowship (DECRA 2019-2022) funded by the Australian
Research Council explored mandatory childhood vaccination policies in
Australia, Italy, France, and California. Arising from this project is her
book, co-authored with Mark Navin, entitled America’s New Vaccine Wars:
California and the Politics of Mandates (OUP, 2023). A/Prof Attwell led the
interdisciplinary West Australian project “Coronavax: Preparing Community
and Government”, which engaged in community and government research for the
COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, funded by Wesfarmers and the Health Department
of Western Australia. From 2023, A/Prof Attwell leads MandEval, a mixed
methods and multi-country study of the implementation and impact of
COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Australia, Italy, France and California, a
$4.7 million dollar project funded by the Medical Research Future Fund of
the Australian Government.

*Registration for the event:*
Eventbrite Link: *https://spp-vaccine-wars.eventbrite.com/
<https://spp-vaccine-wars.eventbrite.com/>*
Zoom Webinar Registration Link:
*https://bit.ly/vaccine-wars <https://bit.ly/vaccine-wars>*

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
Professor of Public Policy
University of California, Riverside
School of Public Policy
900 University Avenue
Riverside, California 92521 USA

Office: 4157 Interdisciplinary South
Phone: 951-827-5405
E-mail: richard.carpiano at ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rcarpian
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RMCarpiano
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