U.S.-Japan cooperative medical sciences program: 22nd International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim

Lu, Kristina T.; Yamamoto, Takuya; McDonald, David; Li, Wei; Tan, Marissa; Moi, Meng Ling; Park, Eun Chung; Yoshimatsu, Kumiko; Ricciardone, Marie D.; Hildesheim, Allan; Totsuka, Yukari; Nanbo, Asuka; Putcharoen, Opass; Suwanpimolkul, Gompol; Jantarabenjakul, Watsamon; Paitoonpong, Leilani; Handley, F. Gray; Bernabe, K. Gayle; Noda, Masahiko; Sonoda, Miwa; Brennan, Patrick J.; Griffin, Diane E.; Kurane, Ichiro

doi:10.1016/j.virol.2020.12.012

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“…Japan is also an active participant in international collaboration on flu vaccine developments as a WHO CC. The USA and Japan established the US-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program in 1965, and held an annual conference titled 'International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim' to promote scientific collaboration for more than 25 years (Doi et al, 2021;Lu et al, 2021). The programme has facilitated international collaborations on vaccine developments for cholera, hepatitis B, and rotaviruses.…”

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The politics of flu vaccines: international collaboration and political partisanship

Liu,

Nagao,

Hatungimana

et al. 2024

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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While vaccine hesitancy has become a salient issue, few studies have examined the influence of international collaboration and vaccine developments on people's attitudes towards vaccines. The international collaboration especially with China has been an integral part of the field of influenza. In recent years, attitudes towards vaccines and China are both heavily politicized in the USA with a deepening partisan divide. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to be vaccine hesitant, and they are also more likely to view China negatively. At the same time, the USA has economic, security, and medical collaboration with Japan and most Americans display a very positive view of the country. Thus, does a more international collaboration or more country-specific vaccine development have an influence on US vaccine hesitancy? This study conducts a survey-embedded question-wording experiment to assess the roles of US–China and US–Japan collaboration and partisanship in people's willingness to get the flu vaccine. Despite the previously successful and effective US–China collaboration, this study finds that respondents especially Republicans are much less likely to receive a US–China flu vaccine than a US–Japan or USA alone. Interestingly, both Democrats and Republicans are as willing to receive a US–Japan vaccine as USA alone. These results point to critical roles of partisanship and international relations.

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Section: International Collaboration In the Influenza Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

The politics of flu vaccines: international collaboration and political partisanship

Liu,

Nagao,

Hatungimana

et al. 2024

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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“…The US–Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program, a 56-year-old bilateral program, has convened the International Conferences on Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim in different countries in the Asia–Pacific region since 1996 ( 1 , 2 ). Because of the ongoing pandemic, the annual conference could not convene in person.…”

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