Period: April 2021 – April 2025

Researcher: Lic. Natali Ini

Objectives:

1. Describe and analyze the public debates around vaccination during the
last 5 years in Argentina, characterizing movements and activism critical of vaccination, with special focus on childhood vaccination.   

2. Describe and analyze the perceptions and practices of health professionals and mothers and fathers of children under 6 years of age in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, who do not adhere to the country's vaccination policies.

Summary: The project seeks to analyze public debates and characterize critical vaccination movements in Argentina based on the triangulation of secondary sources and interviews. The project aims to describe the actors, themes and arguments at play in these debates, tracing the emergence of movements and activism against vaccination policies, as well as the practices of fathers and mothers who do not adhere to their children's vaccination schedule. .

Financiers: CONICET doctoral scholarship.

Type of study: Qualitative.