Full Description
This book critically examines the foundational assumptions of vaccine systems, challenging the dominant linear narrative of vaccine creation and production, regulation, and distribution. Rather than treating these components as isolated and sequential, the project adopts a holistic approach to unpack their dynamic interrelations. The volume is organized into three parts—Creation and Production, Regulation, and Distribution—each showcasing how broader social, political, cultural, and economic processes shape the inter-relationships between these components.
It offers a unique contribution by reframing the understanding of vaccine systems through an interdisciplinary lens that draws on law, public health, innovation studies, psychology and science and technology studies. It is distinct in combining theoretical analysis with empirical insights from diverse national and socio-cultural contexts to examine how these systems operate in practice. In doing so, it supports the call for more inclusive, transparent, and context-sensitive models of vaccine governance, which is particularly important in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and in preparation for future public health challenges.
Contents
Introduction: Socio-Technological relationships in Vaccine Systems: Innovation, Production, Distribution and Equity.- Part-I. Creation and Production.- Chapter 1: Vaccine innovation histories through socio technological lens.- Chapter 2: Timing the Valve: How Does Intellectual Property Impact on Early Market Entry for mRNA Vaccines in Australia to Promote Vaccine Equity?.- Chapter 3: Local Vaccine Production in Australia: Industrial Development and Access Considerations.- Chapter 4: Vaccine Technology Platforms, Market Structures, Intellectual Property Regimes, and Local Production.- PART II: REGULATION.- Chapter 5: Ambivalent Safeties: Attending to Intersectional Marginalities in Vaccine Pharmacovigilance.- Chapter 6: Assembling a New Vaccine Ecosystem: Rethinking Responsibility and Vaccine Security After the Crisis.- Chapter 7: A regulatory vacuum and its consequences for public trust in vaccines: Cautionary tale from India.- PART III: DISTRIBUTION AND EQUITY.- Chapter 8: Vaccine Demand: Theory and Evidence on Psychological and Social Drivers.- Chapter 9: Synthesising Vaccine Hesitancy Research: A Bibliometric Analysis and Structured Review.- Chapter 10: Bridging the Last Mile: Using PrEP Implementation Insights to Shape Africa's HIV Vaccine Preparedness.- Chapter 11: Mapping Vaccine Manufacturing and Pooled Procurement Initiatives in Africa.
