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Promoting Research, Development and Access to Vaccines to Address Global Inequities—2nd Edition

A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Vaccines and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 808

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Dr. Yangmu Huang

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School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: health development assistance; global health governance; global public goods research and development and accessibility; nutrition and food safety; health emergency response
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Dear Colleagues,

Vaccines are a highly effective public health measure for promoting population health. However, the COVID-19 pandemic, monkeypox, and other global public health emergencies have highlighted serious global inequality in the development and accessibility of vaccines, particularly in disadvantaged settings. It is essential to address these issues by understanding the current situation, analyzing its reasons, and exploring potential solutions.

We invite original research articles and reviews on a wide range of topics related to global vaccine equity issues, including routine and emergency vaccines for all age groups. This includes, but is not limited to, vaccine hesitancy, vaccination promotion interventions, relevant economic evaluations, and vaccination for vulnerable populations. We are eagerly looking forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Yangmu Huang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • research and development
  • communicable diseases
  • vulnerable population
  • medical countermeasures
  • vaccine-preventable diseases
  • innovative vaccines
  • vaccine hesitancy
  • health education
  • vaccination coverage rates
  • vaccination strategies

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The Mismatch Between Professionally Produced Vaccine Content and Audience Demand on Chinese Short-Form Video Platforms: A Cross-Platform Content Analysis
by Yuqi Fu, Yuan Dang, Yuming Liu and Yangmu Huang
Vaccines 2026, 14(6), 491; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines14060491 - 30 May 2026
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Background: Short-form video platforms have become important channels for vaccine science communication, yet whether professionally produced vaccine content aligns with audience demand remains underexplored. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional quantitative content analysis of 3752 publicly available vaccine-related videos retrieved from three [...] Read more.
Background: Short-form video platforms have become important channels for vaccine science communication, yet whether professionally produced vaccine content aligns with audience demand remains underexplored. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional quantitative content analysis of 3752 publicly available vaccine-related videos retrieved from three major Chinese short-form video platforms between 21 November and 13 December 2024. A coding framework based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Behavioral and Social Drivers (BeSD) framework was used to identify key content themes. Multivariate Bayesian negative binomial regression and demand–avoidance analysis were used to examine engagement patterns and supply–demand alignment across account types. Results: Individual users produced the majority of videos (53.17%), whereas medical professionals received the highest level of engagement. Engagement was positively associated with themes related to disease severity (β ≈ 0.19–0.25) and side effects and management (β ≈ 0.31–0.67), but negatively associated with vaccine effectiveness (β ≈ −0.28 to −0.14) and vaccination precautions (β ≈ −0.28 to −0.27). Professional sources showed broader thematic coverage but also the greatest supply–demand mismatch, with mismatch indices of 0.377 for medical institution official media and 0.304 for medical professionals, primarily driven by overrepresentation of themes associated with audience avoidance. Conclusions: Significant structural mismatch exists between professionally produced vaccine content and audience engagement-based demand on short-form video platforms. Optimizing vaccine communication may require prioritizing audience-concerned risk-related information and dynamically adjusting content strategies based on engagement feedback to enhance the effectiveness of vaccine education. Full article
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