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Why volunteer for a vaccine study?

Despite a legacy of scientific misconduct,and the usual complexities of conducting science across cultural differences, people in countries across the world volunteer for vaccine studies.

Why? What motivates them? What are their fears?

Medical anthropologist Sienna Craig, I and our esteemed colleagues recently investigated. Check out our new paper, here in BMC Public Health.

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Tim Lahey and tagged vaccine clinical trial volunteerism global health.

Tim Lahey, MD MMScAn HIV doc and clinical ethicist, I write about medicine, ethics, and HIV here and in The Atlantic, Scientific American, TheBody.com, Health Affairs blog, The Conversation and The New York Times. — **Tim Lahey, MD MMSc**

An HIV doc and clinical ethicist, I write about medicine, ethics, and HIV here and in *The Atlantic*, *Scientific American*, *TheBody.com*, *Health Affairs* blog, *The Conversation* and *The New York Times*.